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VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (USA) proudly present ONE HEALTH SPEAKER

 

Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH, DACVPM

 

Thursday, June 21, 2012, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

The Essex, Essex VT (USA)

 

One Health: Where Humans, Animals and the Environment Overlap

 

Stories from the field: the critical role of preparedness in practice Emerging Pathogens: what the practitioner needs to know Rabies: an ancient disease with modern implications Poo, Goo and You: A Parasite Review

 

http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/OHI%20Dr.%20Conti%20announcement%202.2012.pdf


Dr. Lisa Conti
is the former Director of the Division of Environmental Health, Florida Department of Health and is Associate Professor of Pathobiology at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine. She joined the One Health Initiative team of Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Bruce Kaplan, DVM, Thomas P. Monath, MD, and Jack Woodall, PhD on January 26, 2012. In that

capacity, she helps co-manage the One Health Initiative website www.onehealthinitiative.com, in addition to participating in the team’s numerous One Health projects. As a recognized

international One Health leader, author and speaker, Dr. Conti is co-author/editor of a “first of its kind” landmark One Health textbook with the prominent American public health physician

at Yale Medical School, Dr. Peter M. Rabinowitz, entitled “Human-Animal Medicine Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses, Toxicants and other Shared Health Risks.”

 

The cooperation of health care professionals, both veterinary and medical, is essential to ensure global health. Please join the Vermont One Health Task Force as we embark on this critical mission.  Registration will be available in the spring.  For more information, contact the Vermont Veterinary Medical Association at Kathy@vtvets.org, visit www.vtvets.org, or call 802-878-6888.