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Welcome to Session 235 – Public Health Hot Topics
Dr. Dwight Bowman has taught Veterinary Parasitology at Cornell
University for 25 years. His interest is in parasite control and prevention.
Currently he is also President of the American Association of Veterinary
Parasitologist and the Companion Animal Parasite Council.
Dr. Jing Cui is a Veterinary Microbiologist and the section head of
Bacteriology Section at the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Ohio
Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Tony Forshey currently is Chief of the Division of Animal Health, Ohio
Department of Agriculture. He received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor
of Veterinary Medicine degrees from The Ohio State University in June,
1977. Dr. Forshey practiced veterinary medicine for 27 years with a major
interest in swine production involving much of the Midwest. He has served
as an Adjunct Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, College of
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Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine for the
past 10 years.
Mr. Brian Fowler currently oversees vaccine-preventable disease
epidemiology, syndromic surveillance, and informatics in the Bureau of
Infectious Diseases at the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). Mr. Fowler
has over 12 years of experience working on infectious disease
epidemiology and informatics. Mr. Fowler led ODH’s laboratory and
epidemiologic activities during the 2012 H3N2v outbreak. I don’t have a bio
on him.
Dr. Richard Slemons graduated from CSU in 1965 (DVM), practiced in
Nebraska (1965), served in the USAF (1965-1985) working with influenza,
rabies, dengue fever, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, etc. as an
epidemiologist, laboratory diagnostician and/or researcher. He was a
member of the Federal-California VVND and Exotic ND Eradication
Taskforces (1972 & 2003), a short term avian influenza consultant to the
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Nicaragua Ministry of Agriculture (2004) and Assiut University in Upper
Egypt (2006). In 1986, Richard took a position in the Department of
Veterinary Preventive Medicine at OSU focusing on the prevention, control
and eradication of infectious diseases.
Dr. Yan Zhang received his DVM from College of Veterinary Medicine,
Xinjiang Agricultural University. He completed a combined veterinary
microbiology residency and Ph.D program from College of Veterinary
Medicine, Washington State University. He is board certified virologist by
the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists. He has been the
Veterinary Virologist at the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Ohio
Department of Agriculture for the last eight years.
Please welcome Dr. Jing Cui, Dr. Tony Forshey, Mr. Brian Fowler, Dr.
Richard Slemons, and Dr. Yan Zhang