Preventing Disease:
A Prescription for Global Health
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Guy Palmer, D.V.M., Ph.D. Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists Professor Microbiology and Pathology College Veterinary Medicine |
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Terry McElwain, D.V.M., Ph.D. Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists Executive Director and Professor Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory Director Animal Health Research Center College of Veterinary Medicine |
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Thomas Besser, D.V.M., Ph.D. Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Microbiologists Professor Zoonosis Research Unit Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology College of Veterinary Medicine |
In order to prevent the outbreak of devastating disease and maintain global human health, it is critical that researchers combat the source of the majority of new human diseases: infections that begin in animals, both wild and domestic.
Those efforts are the focus of a trio of researchers—Guy Palmer, Terry McElwain, and Thomas Besser—who conduct a variety of scientific investigations designed to understand and eventually stop animal-related diseases that have the potential to wreak havoc with global human health.
Dr. Palmer focuses on gaining global control of persistent infectious diseases, such as Babesia (or cattle fever), a tick-borne cattle disease that causes symptoms in cattle analogous to malaria in humans. Development of an effective immunization to prevent Babesia would not only protect herds of cattle, particularly in developing countries, but also preserve the livelihood of citizens who often rely on herds of three-six cattle for their economic well being.
The nation’s food supply is under the watchful eyes of Dr. McElwain, executive director of the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory. He oversees a laboratory that is equipped and trained to monitor and respond to possible exotic disease outbreaks affecting livestock or wild animals in the United States.
Dr. Besser, a professor in the Zoonosis Research Unit at WSU, devotes substantial efforts to researching food-borne bacterial diseases affecting humans, including those caused by Salmonella and E. coli, which live in one or more animal species. Understanding how pathogens evade the immune response - and persist will lead to an improved understanding of diseases and to solutions that improve global health.
Thursday, October 11
The Rainier Club
820 4th Avenue
Seattle
Registration: 11:30 a.m.
Lunch Program: Noon-1:30 p.m.
Reservations: $30 per person (includes lunch)
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