Speakers
Juan Lubroth
Juan Lubroth is currently is Senior Officer, Head of the Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES) livestock component at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations based in Rome. Under his responsibility is the United Nations’ response to epidemic diseases of livestock such as foot-and-mouth disease, African and classical swine fevers, Rift Valley fever, rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants, highly pathogenic avian influenza, among others, by strengthening veterinary services, improving surveillance, contingency planning, good farming practices, with the overall mission of poverty reduction and improved food security.
Prior to his appointment with FAO, Dr Lubroth was head of the Reagents and Vaccine Section and Diagnostic Services Section at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (United States Department of Agriculture). He has lived and worked in Brazil as an epidemiologist with the Pan American Health Organization, in Mexico with the Mexico-US Commission for the Prevention of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Other Exotic Animal Diseases, and spent time on extended missions in the Caribbean and North Africa.
Dr. Lila Miller
Dr. Lila Miller is a graduate of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. She has over 30 years of experience working in the field of shelter medicine for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in New York City where she is currently Vice President of Veterinary Outreach and Veterinary Advisor.
She is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell. She helped coordinate the first course on shelter medicine offered at a veterinary college in the US at Cornell University in 1999 and co-founded the Association of Shelter Veterinarians in 2001.
She is co-editor of the first and only veterinary textbooks on shelter medicine entitled Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff and The Management of Infectious Diseases in Animal Shelters. She teaches shelter medicine at several universities regularly, on the Veterinary Information Network (VIN) and at various veterinary and animal welfare conferences.
She received the 2008 AVMA Animal Welfare Award and 2005 Hills Animal Welfare and Humane Ethics award from the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), in addition to a teaching award from the American Humane Association (2001) and service award from the Veterinary Medical Association of New York City (1999). Dr. Miller is a former member of the New York State Board for Veterinary Medicine and currently serves on the National Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. Dr. Miller was also director of an ASPCA clinic for 15 years, delivering clinical services to both an underserved populace and shelter animals.
Carlton Gyles
Dr. Carlton Gyles is a native of Jamaica who received his DVM, MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Guelph in 1964-1968. Following postdoctoral work in the UK and Denmark he returned as a faculty member at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, in 1969.
He remained on faculty at OVC until his retirement in 2005. He has held administrative positions including Department Chair in Pathobiology, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and Interim Dean of the OVC.
His research centred around Escherichia coli as a pathogen of animals and has been recognized by several awards including Distinguished Microbiologist, selected by the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists and The Roche Award for career achievement in microbiology by the Canadian Society of Microbiologists.
He has edited a book on E. coli in domestic Animals and Humans and four editions of a book on Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections of Animals. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph and is active in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Veterinary Journal and of Animal Health Research Reviews.
Etienne Cote
Dr. Etienne Côté is a board certified veterinary cardiologist and small animal internist. He was born and raised in Montréal, Québec, Canada, and he currently resides in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Between these two Canadian locations, he has traveled, lived, studied, and worked in the United States and overseas.
He obtained his doctorate in veterinary medicine from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1993.
He trained as an intern in small animal medicine and surgery at the California Animal Hospital in Los Angeles in 1993-1994, then pursued his specialty training there in small animal internal medicine (1996-1998) and in cardiology (1998-1999).
Dr. Côté was staff cardiologist at Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston from 1999 to 2002, and visiting clinical instructor at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Onderstepoort, South Africa, for 6 months in 2002-2003.
Dr. Côté has since been with the University of Prince Edward Island where he teaches cardiology both in the lecture theater and in clinics to final-year veterinary students. He received the Merial Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching in 2004, the Pfizer Carl J. Norden Distinguished teacher Award in 2005, the Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership in 2007, and the Association of Atlantic Universities Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009.
He is the author and editor of the Clinical Veterinary Advisor textbook for small animal practice, cocreator of Veterinary Board Games study tools, and author or coauthor of over 30 scientific articles and textbook chapters.
He owns two Newfoundland dogs, and his hobbies include cleaning up after them, travel, languages, running, hiking, snowshoeing, and shotokan karate.
Dr. Stephen J. Ettinger
Dr. Stephen J. Ettinger, DVM, DACVIM (Cardiology, Small Animal Internal Medicine), FACC, FAHA:
Born and raised in New York City, Dr. Stephen Ettinger graduated as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from CornellUniversity . After completing an internship at the Animal Medical Centre, he then completed one of the first-ever residency programs in cardiology. In 1970, Dr. Ettinger published Canine Cardiology, the first monograph on cardiovascular disease in animals.
In 1973, he and his colleagues created the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, the largest body of board-certified veterinary internal medicine specialists in the world, followed soon afterwards by the development of an LP/CD of Canine Heart Sounds, the best source of normal and abnormal heart sounds in the dog.
In 1975, Dr. Ettinger published one of the most referenced veterinary medicine texts, the “Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine. His clinical research work has been prolific: he was primary investigator and lead author of a clinical trial that produced the first placebo-controlled trial of a veterinary cardiac drug (the ACE inhibitor enalapril) and he was lead investigator and presenter of the first prospective study to evaluate blood-based cardiac biomarkers in over 1,000 cases from one study in a single year.
Dr. Ettinger presently is chief medical officer of XLNT, Inc. (PetDRx), a provider of veterinary primary care services to companion animals through a network of veterinary hospitals. He continues to practice with the California Animal Hospital Veterinary Specialty Group in Los Angeles.
Allen Cannedy
Dr. Allen L. Cannedy is a native of Fredericksburg, Virginia. He earned an Associate degree in Arts and Science from Germanna Community College, Bachelor of Science from Virginia State University and Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine.
He did a Rotating Large Animal Internship at the University of Tennessee College Of Veterinary Medicine and a Ruminant Medicine Production Medicine Residency at North Carolina State University- College of Veterinary Medicine (NCSU-CVM). Dr. Cannedy was a ruminant group faculty member at NCSU-CVM as a Clinical Assistant Professor from 1997 to 2000 when he became the Director of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs for the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Cannedy started his Small Ruminant and Camelid Mobile Veterinary Services in 2004. His practice specializes in care for Llamas, Alpacas, Goats and Sheep. He also continues to serve as an administrator , teaching faculty and emergency referral clinician for potbellied pigs and camels at North Carolina State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital.