Join us for a lunch meeting with Colorado’s State Public Health Veterinarian, Dr. Elisabeth Lawaczeck.

Dr. Lawaczeck will discuss the roles and duties of a public health veterinarian and the diseases for which a state public health veterinarian usually coordinates surveillance, prevention, and control. Examples include: West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, tickborne relapsing fever and other tickborne diseases, as well as rabies and other zoonoses directly transmissible to humans.

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Back by popular demand! This lecture was scheduled for October, but canceled due to snow. We’re excited to offer it again!

Come listen to our panelists talk about their current job duties and the exciting and unique paths they have taken to get where they are today. And, of course, there will be time for questions and discussion afterwards.

Panelists include:

Dr. David Wong, MD, Chief of the Epidemiology and Health Promotion Branch of the National Park Service Office of Public Health

Dr. Margaret Wild, DVM, PhD, Chief Wildlife Vet for the National Park Service

Dr. Karl Musgrave, DVM, MPH, WY State Public Health Veterinarian

Dr. Dan O’Leary, DVM, DACVPM, CDC Career Epidemiology Field Officer, Wyoming Department of Health

Dr. Kerry Pride, DVM, MPH, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Wyoming Department of Health

Read biographies of our panelists here.

Dinner will be served at 5:30 for members and the panel will start at 6:00 in CSU’s Pathology 101.

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Thursday, February 16, 2012
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

One Health in a “New Vet School” & Stories About Wildlife Field Work in Alaska (some may be true…)

Dr. Todd O’Hara is an Associate Professor of Wildlife Toxicology at the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

His specialty is wildlife conservation and medicine with a focus on environmental and wildlife toxicology of marine and terrestrial mammals and fish, and marine mammals outside of Alaska.

Dr. O’Hara will share information on his research, stories from the field, and ways you can pursue wildlife disease or toxicology for your own career path.

Questions and discussion to follow!

Dinner from Qdoba will be served at 5:30 for members and the talk will begin at 6:00 in CSU’s Pathology 101.

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Read more about Dr. Todd O’Hara, DVM, PhD.

Article & Photo Gallery

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Come listen to Dr. Jim Dale, Environmental Health Director at Jefferson County (and seasoned public health vet), talk about his career in veterinary public health and environmental health.

Questions and discussion to follow!

Dinner will be served at 5:30 for members and the talk will begin at 6:00 in CSU’s Pathology 101.

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More about Dr. James E. Dale, DVM, MPH, MBA, GCVHS, DACVPM:

Dr. Dale is a veterinarian with Masters Degrees in Public Health and Business. He is the Director, Environmental Health for Jefferson County Public Health. He assumed this position in May of 1999.

Jim was raised on a small stock farm in south central Kansas where he learned to value the land, open spaces, hard work and family. He is a 30-year Air Force veteran/retired Colonel and was stationed at many locations around the world. Jim’s final assignment was as Chief, Prevention Operations in the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General at Headquarters Air Force. He has served on numerous Environmental and Public Health Boards around the state and the nation.

He has served the City of Golden as a Planning Commissioner and Chair plus as member of the Citizen’s Budget Advisory Committee and Visitor’s Center Board. He is a graduate of Leadership Golden, Leadership Jefferson County, and the Bighorn Leadership Development program. Recently Jim received distinguish service awards from the Colorado Public Health Association, Colorado Environmental Health Association, Colorado Professionals in Onsite Wastewater, Leadership Jefferson County, and the American Public Health Association.

He enjoys many sports, traveling, reading, and plays golf when he gets a chance. He and his wife LouAnne have two adult children, two grandchildren, and love living in Golden.

CANCELED DUE TO UNIVERSITY CLOSURE FOR WEATHER! 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Come listen to our panelists talk about their current job duties and the exciting and unique paths they have taken to get where they are today. And, of course, there will be time for questions and discussion afterwards.

Panelists include:

Dr. David Wong, MD, Chief of the Epidemiology and Health Promotion Branch of the National Park Service Office of Public Health

Dr. Margaret Wild, DVM, PhD, Chief Wildlife Vet for the National Park Service

Dr. Karl Musgrave, DVM, MPH, WY State Public Health Veterinarian

Dr. Dan O’Leary, DVM, DACVPM, CDC Career Epidemiology Field Officer, Wyoming Department of Health

Dr. Kerry Pride, DVM, MPH, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Wyoming Department of Health

Read biographies of our panelists here.

Dinner will be served at 5:30 for members and the panel will start at 6:00 in CSU’s Pathology 101.

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Commander David Wong, MD, is Chief of the Epidemiology and Health Promotion Branch of the National Park Service (NPS) Office of Public Health. His primary duties include responding to outbreaks and human disease case reports, developing surveillance systems, and coordinating park-based physical activity and nutrition projects with the medical community.

From 2002–2006, Dr. Wong was a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he primarily worked on sexually transmitted diseases (STD) research in large U.S. cities and among Native Americans. He received his MD from Duke University. He completed his pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and then joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellowship at CDC.

Margaret Wild, DVM, PhD, is the chief wildlife veterinarian, and leads the Wildlife Health Program, for the National Park Service. She and her team provide technical assistance and consultation to parks on wildlife health issues, and develop recommendations for national NPS policy on wildlife health and welfare. Additionally, she works closely with the NPS Office of Public Health in the development and promotion of One Health within the NPS.

Prior to joining the National Park Service in 2000, she was a researcher with the Colorado Division of Wildlife for 9 years where she focused on disease and physiology research questions, primarily with ungulates and small carnivores. She received her B.S. in wildlife biology (1980), DVM (1990), and PhD in zoology (2002), all from Colorado State University. She maintains an affiliate faculty position in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology at CSU.

Karl Musgrave, DVM, MPH, is currently the Wyoming State Public Health Veterinarian. Dr. Musgrave received his veterinary degree in 1988 from CSU and his MPH from Harvard in 1989. He served in the Centers for Disease Control’s Epidemic Intelligence Service from 1990-1992. Dr Musgrave has held various state and federal positions including time as an occupational health epidemiologist at NIOSH and as State Epidemiologist in Wyoming. Dr Musgrave also worked as as a mixed animal practitioner from 2004-2007 in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado utilizing a mobile RV equipped veterinary clinic.

Additionally, information on the veterinarian-based active surveillance programs for zoonotic disease and other adverse health events that Dr. Musgrave oversees may be found at http://www.health.wyo.gov/sho/hazards/wrvc.html.

Dan O’Leary, DVM, DACVPM, is a 1988 graduate of University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and is board certified in veterinary preventive medicine. He began his professional career practicing equine medicine in Littleton, CO and small animal medicine in Fallston, MD for 5 years before pursuing a public health career.

In 1993, Dr. OLeary became a US Air Force Public Health Officer, managing public health and preventive medicine programs for 5 years at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska and Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota.

In 1998, he entered the US Public Health Service, completing a CDC epidemiology fellowship in Fort Collins, CO, studying Lyme disease, plague, tularemia, and West Nile virus. During 2002-2006, Dr. O’Leary served as CDC’s national West Nile virus surveillance coordinator.

Since 2006, Dr. O’Leary has served as a CDC Career Epidemiology Field Officer assigned to Wyoming Department of Health. He travels frequently to Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation to work with the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes and neighboring health departments to build health programs and partnerships. Dr. O’Leary also serves on several state health committess and is a senior veterinarian on a US Public Health Service emergency deployment team.

Dr. OLeary’s work has included international projects in Haiti, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Sudan, and South Africa.

Kerry Pride, DVM, MPH, grew up in rural Montana on a ranch and always wanted to be a veterinarian.  She attended the University of Idaho and was accepted to veterinary school at Louisiana State University after 3 years.  After graduating with her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, she went to Alaska into private practice.  There, she worked on everything from dogs and cats to musk ox and grizzly bears.

Dr. Pride had an interest in public health since veterinary school, so she pursued her Masters of Public Health from the University of Alaska Anchorage.  Upon receiving her MPH, she applied and was accepted into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service.  She started the EIS program this July at the Wyoming Department of Health and joined the United States Public Health Service.

Thanks especially to our wonderful sponsors Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Advanced Spine and Posture Center, Countryside Animal Hospital, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Gib’s Bagels, plus our wonderful volunteers!

We hope to see you again next year!

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Mark your calendars for our 3rd annual Paws on the Pavement 5K run/walk!

This fun 5K event for people and their pets takes place on the CSU campus.  It features fun booths and information from 9-11 a.m., plus free health exams for all pet participants!  Human participants will receive a race water bottle and plenty of yummy snacks.

This year’s race will be held Saturday, October 8, 2011, at 9 am on CSU’s Oval.

CSU students/faculty/staff: $18
Non-CSU Adults: $23
Kids 12 & under: $12.50
Add $5 if registering after October 1

Online registration closes at midnight on October 7. Late registration available on race day.

Register online at Active.com or register via mail (opens PDF file).