Faculty

Center for Animal Health and Food Safety

College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota

• Jeff Bender, DVM, MS, DACVPM; Associate Professor, Veterinary Public Health Division Director, Veterinary Population Medicine. Expertise: zoonoses and emerging diseases, food safety, antimicrobial resistance, bio/agro terrorism preparedness.  Country experience: 
• Jim Collins, DVM, MS, PhD; Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine, Director, Veterinary Diagnostic Lab. Expertise: Diagnostic Pathology, Infectious Disease, Anatomic Pathology.  Country experience:
• Peter Davies, BVS, PhD; Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine, Leman Chair, Swine Medicine.  Expertise: Swine health and production, foodborne pathogens and zoonotic disease, veterinary epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, disease surveillance and  control. Country experience: Australia, New Zealand, UK.
• Scott Dee, DVM, MS, PhD; Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine, Director, Swine Disease Eradication Center.  Expertise: PRRS control and elimination, PRRS viral persistence, PRRS virus transmission and biosecurity.  Country experience:
• John Deen, DVM, MS, PhD; Associate Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine, Director, UMN Swine Center.  Expertise: Swine health, epidemiology of swine diseases, economics of swine production, farm management.  Country experience: Canada.
• John Fetrow, VMD, MBA; Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine.  Expertise: Dairy production management and disease control, food animal production economics, large animal nutrition, biosecurity and infectious disease control, Johnes Disease and enteric disease.  Country experience: Germany, Canada.
• Sandra Godden, DVM, DVSc; Associate Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine.  Expertise: Epidemiology, biosecurity/infectious disease control, Johne’s disease, applied dairy nutrition, dairy health management. Country experience: Canada.
• Sagar Goyal, PhD, MS, BVSc & AH; Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine, Adjunct Professor, Environmental Health, Director, Graduate Studies in Veterinary Medicine.  Expertise: Pathogenesis and control of viral infections in livestock and poultry, detection and prevention of human and animal viruses. Country experience: Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, China, Uruguay, Tanzania, Philippines.
• Dave Halvorson, DVM; Professor, Animal Science.  Expertise: Avian Influenza.  Country experience:
• Will Hueston, DVM, MS, PhD; Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Adjunct Professor School of Public Health, Director of the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety. Expertise: risk communication, risk assessment, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, surveillance.  Country experience:  UK, France, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia.
• Shaun Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Director, National Center for Food Protection and Defense.
• Bob Morrison, DVM, MBA, PhD; Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine.  Expertise: swine herd production and financial records, epidemiology.  Country experience: Canada, Colombia, Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Vietnam, Mexico, China.
• Paul Rapnicki, DVM, AGDM, MBA; Associate Clinical Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine.  Expertise: Dairy production medicine, management and treatment protocols for dairy operations, drug use in food animal practice.  Country experience: Canada
• Pat Redig, DVM, PhD; Professor, Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Cofounder, Raptor Center. Expertise: raptor diseases, avian orthopedics, emergency medicine, reintroduction/release strategies, raptor rehabilitation and conservation. Country experience:
• Jerry Torrison, DVM, MS, PhD; Associate Clinical Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine.  Expertise: Health Mapping; Swine Medicine; Foreign Animal Disease.  Country experience: France.
• Scott Wells, DVM, PhD; Associate Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences.  Expertise: control of manure-cycle pathogens in dairy cattle and other food animals, Johne's disease and Salmonella, surveillance of foodborne diseases of humans and animals.  Country experience: Canada, Uruguay, Bolivia.

 Schoolof Public Health, University of Minnesota

• Craig Hedberg, MS, PhD; Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences. Expertise: Foodborne disease surveillance, outbreak investigations and disease control, environmental contamination with enteric pathogens. Country experience: France
• Bill Toscano, PhD; Professor, Environmental Health Sciences. Expertise: environmental impact on cellular signal and information systems, receptor-mediated toxicity, dioxin action. Country experience:
• Deb Olson, MPH, COHNS; Associate Dean, Public Health Practice, Instructor, Environmental Health Sciences.  Expertise: occupational and environmental health, injury prevention and control, agricultural safety and health. Country experience:

  MichiganState University

• Kevin Walker, MS, PhD; Professor, National Food Safety & Toxicology Center.  Expertise: public infrastructure, international trade standards, risk assessment, emerging diseases. Country experience: Latin America

Universityof California, Davis

• Don Klingborg DVM; Associate Dean, Veterinary Medicine Public Programs, Director, Veterinary Medicine Extension in the School of Veterinary Medicine. Expertise: Infectious bovine disease, BSE, calfhood diseases and preventions, computer applications to dairy production, food safety/residue avoidance, bioterrorism. Country Experience:

 WashingtonState University

• Bill Sischo DVM, MPVM, PhD; Professor, Food and Water-borne Disease Unit, Field Disease Investigation Unit, Veterinary Clinical Sciences; Expertise: Science and policy surrounding global dairy food system, Salmonella, antimicrobial resistance.  Country Experience: Europe and Balkans.