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The North Carolina One Health Collaborative's One Health Intellectual Exchange Sessions will continue monthly throughout the Summer and Fall of 2012.  The weekly course will be back in Spring 2013.  As always, all sessions are open to the public and held at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center . The next monthly session will be in June.  For scheduling and speaker information, please check: http://nconehealthcollaborative.weebly.com and/or http://triangleglobalhealth.ning.com/group/tghconehealth  Thanks!

Dr. Laura Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, FACP, is a physician and researcher with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University. Before joining the staff at the University, however, she was a managing physician for the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, a medical officer for the United States Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Maryland, and attending physician at Prince George’s Hospital in Cheverly, Maryland and a staff physician at Gouveneur Hospital in New York, New York. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and is a recipient of the New Jersey Chapter’s Laureate Award. Dr. Kahn is also an honorary diplomate of the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society. Dr. Kahn emphasizing the need for One Health with Nipah Virus and Q Fever as examples. Dr. Kahn started her presentation with comparing two One Health case studies, which included the Nipah Virus in Ma...

On Tuesday, April 17th, there were two speakers at the One Health Session. The speakers had met each other several years ago through a common veterinary friend. After they discussed their research over lunch for about a year, they started collaborating in research regarding stem cell transplantation in B- and T-cell lymphoma. Steven Suter, VMD, MS, PhD, DACVIM (Oncology) is an Assistant Professor of Oncology in the Department of Clinical Science at NCSU Veterinary Health Complex. He is a veterinary oncologist and the Medical Director of the world’s only Canine Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. Kristy Richards, MD, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology at the UNC School of Medicine. Kristy Richards is a medical oncologist; she treats patients with a variety of blood cancers in the Lineberger Cancer Center and her laboratory in IPIT focuses on finding new and better ways to treat lymphoma. Steve Suter desc...

Dogs and Spinal Cord Injury - Another Role for Man's Best Friend Dr. Natasha Olby, VetMB, PhD, DACVIM (Neurology) Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine (NCSU CVM), studied at Cambridge University for her veterinary and research doctoral studies. She says it is at Cambridge where she first learned about the One Health application of animal models in biomedical research. After completing a postdoctoral study at Cambridge, she completed her residency in neurology/neurosurgery in North Carolina. As a board certified neurologist in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Dr. Olby joined the faculty at NCSU CVM where she has been conducting clinical work and research in spinal cord injury (SCI). Dr. Natasha Olby discusses her work using dogs as models for spinal cord injury. Dr. Olby began our session, “Benefits of Comparative Medicine: Regenerative Medicine?” with a holistic look a...

Dr. Felicia Nutter, DVM, PhD, DACZM got an early start in the field of One Health. With role models such as Jane Goodall and Diane Fossey, Dr. Nutter informed her mother that she wanted to be a veterinarian and live with the apes in Africa while she was still in elementary school. She did go on to receive her DVM from Tufts University. It was here that Dr. Nutter had the opportunity to complete a fellowship in Tanzania working with apes and humans in Gombe National Park. After that she had an internship in small animal medicine, a residency in zoological medicine, and she completed her PhD in Comparative Biomedical Science at NC State University. Dr. Nutter worked with the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project for five years. The project originally concentrated strongly on conservation, but made a transition to a One Health focus. Dr. Nutter continued to make One Health connections as a Staff Veterinarian at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, CA.  Dr. Felicia Nutter discusses how...

Dr. Chris Whittier, DVM, PhD is an Associate Veterinarian and PREDICT Global Coordinator at Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park. He has a DVM from Tufts University and PhD from NC State in molecular diagnosis and epidemiology of infectious disease in wild gorillas. He worked extensively in central Africa for the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project as a veterinarian and program manager. Dr. Whittier took a few minutes at the beginning of his talk to reflect on his “one health journey” and the evolution of his career in veterinary medicine.  His One Health path is unique. Like his role model primatologist Jane Goodall, he worked with primates in Africa, which let to his decision to become a wild animal veterinarian. Dr. Whittier even had the opportunity to work with Jane Goodall herself on chimp and gorilla health. His experience working with parasite transmission from human to chimp and public health programming lead him to further study in parasitology and zoonotic disease trans...

During her March 27 lecture, Dr. Christine Petersen, DVM PhD, Assistant Professor at Iowa State University, offered a One Health perspective of visceral leishmaniasis in the US. As both a DVM and immunologist, Dr. Petersen has been involved in many aspects of One Health, including medical, veterinary, and public health.  Her research, focusing on the prevalence and prevention of zoonotic diseases, has led her to study visceral leishmaniasis in the American Foxhound population. Dr. Christine Petersen, DVM PhD explains her research on visceral leishmaniasis and why the disease should have a One Health focus in the US . Dr. Petersen began with a background on the disease, including theories on how it came to the US and why it remains problematic for both dogs and humans. Visceral leishmaniasis, a zoonotic, vector borne disease, exists as a spectrum of clinical disease, from cutaneous sores to disseminated disease with organ involvement. Positive serology does not guarantee...