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North Carolina (USA) One Health Collaborative NEWS & Upcoming Events Speakers

 

Please see the new and expanding website for the North Carolina One Health Collaborative at http://nconehealthcollaborative.weebly.com/index.html

Also note Upcoming Events speaker events planned by this outstanding collaborative:

Weekly One Health Intellectual Exchange Group Sessions / Course: Philosophy to Practical Integration of Human, Animal, and Environmental Health

Spring Semester 2012 Cross-listed at Duke, NCSU (CBS 886/VMP 986), and UNC (PUBH 690 Sec 008) Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm North Carolina Biotechnology Center...

 

March 27, 2012 Emergence of a zoonotic tropical disease in the United States: visceral leishmaniasis

Christine Peterson, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Pathology at Iowa State University CVM

 

April 3 One Health Core Competencies - Building Capacity for Response to Emerging Pandemic Threats:

Felicia Nutter, DVM, PhD, DACZM, Research Assistant Professor at Tufts University Cummings SVM, USAID Grantee, RESPOND Project Senior Technical Officer

The USAID PREDICT Project: Building a global early warning system for emerging zoonoses

Chris Whittier, DVM, PhD, Associate Veterinarian at Smithsonian

 

April 10 From Four Legs to Two - Translating Research Findings to Therapy of Spinal Cord Injury:

Dogs and Spinal Cord Injury - Another Role for Man's Best Friend

Natasha Olby, VetMB, PhD, DACVIM, Professor, Neurology at NCSU CVM

The Dalfampridine Story - The Making of a Medicine

Andrew Blight, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer Acorda Therapeutics

 

April 17 Going to the dogs … for a new model organism of non-Hodgkin lymphoma:

Steven Suter, VMD, MS, PhD, DACVIM, Assistant Professor, Oncology at NCSU CVM

Kristy Richards, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Genetics at UNC

 

One Health in the Bigger Picture: Policy, Education, Conclusions:

April 24 One Health: A Concept for the 21st Century

Laura Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Department of Science & Global Security at Princeton University

 

 

Provided by:
Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD

Chair, North Carolina One Health Collaborative Steering Committee

Chair, One Health Intellectual Exchange Group

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept Clinical Sciences, NC State CVM

AVMA Representative, One Health Commission

Chair, NCVMA Membership Committee

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