7:00-8:30
Registration

8:30-9:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks

Leah Devlin, DDS, MPH
State Health Director, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Steve Troxler
Commissioner, North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

9:00-10:00
One Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

RADM Craig VanderWagen, MD
Assistant Secretary, Office of Preparedness and Response, US Department of Health and Human Services

10:00-11:00
Globalization: Agricultural Economics and Public Health Concerns

• Transcontinental trade of products or animals carrying infectious agents
  
• Balancing economics, development, and animal health

Corrie Brown, DVM, PhD
College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia

11:00-11:15
BREAK

11:15-12:00
The Expanding Risks of Importing and Producing Safe Products in a Global Economy

• Melamine: What went right? What went wrong?
  
• Antibiotics in imported fish

Joe Reardon
Director, Food and Drug Protection Division, North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

12:00-1:00
LUNCH

1:00-1:30
Federal Perspective: Importation Risk Assessments for Animals/Products

• How the US decides: regulations, countries, risks
  
• Future?

COL John Hoffman
National Center for Food Protection and Defense, US Department of Homeland Security

1:30-2:30
Globalization: Business Travel, Human Migration, and Public Health Risks

• What human diseases are we transporting?
  
• Zoonoses under the radar

Nina Marano, DVM, MPH
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2:30-3:00
BREAK

3:00-3:30
Neurocysticercosis in North Carolina: A 10-Year Medical Record Review of Morbidity and Mortality

• Migrant health
• The intersection of agriculture and public health issues
  

Katie Kurkjian, DVM, MPH
Virginia Department of Health

3:30-4:15
Domestic Zoonoses: Not So Far Away

• Salmonellosis, Brucellosis, Tularemia, Plague, Chlamydiosis, Cryptosporidiosis, Trichinosis, Rabies, Campylobacteriosis, Infection due to shigatoxin-producing E. coli

Carl Wiliams, DVM, DACVPM
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

4:15-5:00
NBAF: National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility

• North Carolina--finalist for this research program
• What will happen to the Plum Island, NY, facility?
• Addressing misconceptions
• Update on Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in the UK

Barrett Slenning, MS, DVM, MPVM
College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University

5:00-7:00
Symposium Social Event -- Details to Come!

8:30-8:45
Welcome

8:45-9:30
NBIS: National Biosurveillance Integration System

Donald L. Noah, DVM, MPH
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Biodefense, Office of Health Affairs, US Department of Homeland Security

9:30-10:30
International Infrastructure for Animal Health

• Office International des Epizootes (OIE) or World Organization for Animal Health
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  
• Where does the US fit in?

Corrie Brown, DVM, PhD
College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia,

10:30 -11:00
BREAK

11:00-12:00
International Infrastructure for Human Health

• World Health Organization (WHO): Update on international health regulations
  
• The role of United States and CDC

Kamel Senouci, MD, MSc
World Health Organization / Pan American Health Organization

12:00-1:00
LUNCH

1:00-2:00
Nutritional Security: What Happens when Agriculture is Lost?

• Poverty: A driver of disease
  
• Avian influenza update
  
• How is H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza affecting the food supply in countries with infected birds?

Gavin MacGregor-Skinner, BVSc, MSc, MPH, MRCVS
US Agency for International Development (USAID)

2:00-2:45
Global View of Human/Animal Relationship: The Differing Animal Role

• The impact of cultural differences on international agriculture and public health

David Waltner Toews, DVM,PhD
University of Guelph and president, Veterinarians Without Borders

2:45-3:15
BREAK

3:15-4:00
Exotic Pet Trade Industry

• Importation restrictions
• What exotics are being imported and how are they getting into the country?
• Demographics of populations wanting and importing exotics
• What are the public health implications?

Thomas M. Edling, DVM, MSpVM
PETCO

4:00-5:00
North Carolina, the Nanny State: A Point-Counterpoint Discussion on Regulation for Disease and Injury Control Involving Animals and Animal Products

The audience will be asked to debate regulatory control of:

• Sale of pet turtles
• Sale of cow shares (unpasteurized milk)
• Ban on private ownership of inherently dangerous animals

Jeff Engel, MD
State Epidemiologist, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Aimee Wall, JD, MPH
School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill