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Event Title: Expert Advice on Controlling Avian Influenza
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Time: 7:00 AM Pacific | 10:00 AM Eastern
Duration: 1 Hour
Arm Yourself with Expert Advice in Preventing H5N1
Avian influenza has wiped out tens of millions of birds and brought on the destruction of millions more. Today, leaders in the poultry industry must confront the long-term industry effects of H5N1 or highly pathogenic avian influenza. While industry efforts are not likely to eradicate the disease globally, poultry disease specialists in companies and governments have found ways to eliminate or control the disease under certain circumstances in some parts of the world.
Join avian influenza experts Dr. Ilaria Capua and Les Sims for advice on surveillance, control and eradication of H5N1. Dr. Capua and Mr. Sims are at the forefront of H5N1 research and will share what they've learned from not only decades of study but also from recent outbreaks of the disease.
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Dr. Ilaria Capua
Dr. Ilaria Capua is the head of the virology department at Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padova, Italy. She also leads the reference laboratories for avian influenza (AI) and Newcastle disease for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as well as the prestigious Office International des Epizooties (OIE). Her laboratory annually hosts several scientists from developed and developing countries for training and collaborative research projects.
Dr. Capua graduated with honors in veterinary medicine from the University of Perugia in 1989. She went on to obtain post graduate qualifications as a specialist in animal health and hygiene from Pisa University in 1991.
She is currently a member of the panel on animal health and animal welfare of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and chairman of the working group on avian influenza. Dr. Capua is also the vice coordinator of the EU project AVIFLU, funded for 2002-2006 and has recently been granted 1.2 million euros to coordinate an 11 partner project on AI that will support the Asian AI crisis, develop an EU vaccine bank for AI and investigate other aspects of the avian influenza pandemic.
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Les Sims
Les Sims earned his bachelor's of veterinary science with honors from the University of Melbourne and became a member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in diagnostic pathology in 1987. He has worked for government veterinary services in Australia (13 years ), Papua New Guinea (3 years) and Hong Kong (9 years), working initially in animal pathology and animal disease management.
In 2003, he formed his own consulting company, Asia Pacific Veterinary Information Services, and was the lead author of the FAO recommendations on control of H5N1, issued in September 2004. Sims has provided advice to a range of organizations, including the World Health Organization and Australia's department of agriculture, fisheries and forestry. He recently produced a paper on research needs for (H5N1) in Australia using a risk-based approach.
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