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Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre
CCWHC Workshop 2012
Calgary Zoo
21st-22nd February
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Location
Calgary Zoo, Botanical Garden &
Prehistoric Park
1300 Zoo Road NE
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2E 7V6
Registration
http://www.calgarytransit.com/route_maps/lrt_stop.html
Upon arrival at the Zoo, workshop attendees should inform the admissions attendant that they are with the Workshop and proceed
into the Zoo. The Workshop will be taking place in the Enmax Conservatory, marked on the map below. There will be a
registration desk in this building where you will receive your workshop package and sign in. For any attendees who will be
driving to the workshop, please note that you should park in the North parking lot.
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Introduction
On behalf of the CCWHC, I welcome you all to the 3 rd CCWHC Workshop for Canada’s
Wildlife Health Professionals. We are greatly looking forward to experiencing this
Workshop program with you. The Calgary Zoo has extended us a warm welcome and is
providing us with a terrific venue.
Five years ago, the CCWHC critically reviewed its program and looked to the future. We
identified continuing education, wildlife health and disease status reports and national
networking among wildlife health professionals as un-met needs in Canada, needs we should
strive to meet. A Workshop for wildlife health professionals, held at the Calgary Zoo in
February 2008, was our first attempt to deliver such a program. The feedback we received
was very positive, and we were advised by you to hold such a workshop every two years.
Our 2nd workshop was held at Carleton University in Ottawa in February 2010. The
workshop theme was Animal Welfare in Wildlife Management, Harvest and Research
(report available at http://www.ccwhc.ca/publications_and_newsletters.php), and the
program also included a consultation with participants by the Public Health Agency of
Canada on “One world, one health.”
Our program in 2012 has two main themes. The first is to explore the various ways wild
animal health can be affected in major disasters of various kinds and, thus, also to explore
what roles wildlife health professionals might be expected to play in such disasters. Marc
Cattet of the CCWHC Headquarters Office has organized this program. We believe this topic
will be broadly useful to wildlife health professionals and will bring together new and useful
information.
The second theme is to provide updates on some of the major wildlife disease issues in
Canada. We have asked people from across the country to contribute to these updates and we
anticipate that all participants will leave the workshop fully informed on these issues, and
with an expanded network of colleagues for further consultation in the future.
In our final two hours, we will ask you, the participants, to make an evaluation of Canada’s
current capacity to investigate wildlife mortality events. Such capacity can be critical to
rapid identification of cause and to effective responses when responses are required. We will
try to capture your collective knowledge of Canada’s capacity here, and your collective
opinions as to whether or not this capacity is sufficient to meet Canada’s needs.
We thank all the speakers who have agreed to participate in this workshop. We are deeply
grateful for your willingness to share your knowledge and expertise with us. And we thank
all of the participants for coming to Calgary and taking part in this workshop. It is your
participation that makes such an event successful.
Ted Leighton
Executive Director, CCWHC
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Agenda — Day One
08:30-08:45
Welcome to CCWHC workshop
08:45-09:00
Introduction to Day 1 of workshop
Marc Cattet, CCWHC
09:00-09:45
Presentation 1
Krystil Jones – Veterinary student at the University of Calgary
09:45-10:30
Presentation 2
Carin Wittnich – Lead veterinarian for the Oceanographic Environmental Research
Society’s Disaster Response Division
10:30-10:45
coffee break
10:45-11:30
Presentation 3
Randy Killeen – Alberta representative for the Canadian Veterinary Reserve
11:30-12:15
Presentation 4
Chris Battaglia – Founder and President of Focus Wildlife International
12:15-13:15
lunch
13:15-14:00
Presentation 5
Martin Lavoie – Co-founder and Veterinary Wildlife Project Manager for Biofilia
14:00-14:15
Disaster Scenario presentation
Marc Cattet, CCWHC
14:15-15:00
Break-out session
Identify key points related to planning, response, and recovery
15:00-15:15
coffee break
15:15-16:30
Open discussion of scenario
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Presenters — Day One
Marc Cattet
Kyrstil Jones
CCWHC
University of Calgary
Marc is a Professional
Research Associate with the
CCWHC and an Adjunct
Professor in the Department of
Veterinary Pathology at the
Western College of Veterinary
Medicine, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
Carin Wittnich
Randy Killeen
Oceanographic Environmental
Research Society
Canadian Veterinary Reserve
Carin is one of the founding
Directors of the Oceanographic
Environmental Research
Society (OERS). She leads the
organization's scientific and
rescue initiatives.
Randy is a Veterinarian in
Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
He is also the Alberta representative
for the Canadian Veterinary
Reserve.
Chris Battaglia
Martin Lavoie
Focus Wildlife International
Biofilia
Chris is the Founder and President of Focus Wildlife International. Chris is a veteran emergency responder, and has travelled the world over the last
quarter century responding to
oiled wildlife emergencies.
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Krystil is currently in her final year
of a DVM program at the University
of Calgary. The topic she will be
presenting is based on her summerstudent work with the Canadian
Veterinary Reserve.
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Martin is a graduate of the Faculty
of Veterinary Medicine, University
of Montreal and co-founder of
Biofilia Inc., Martin Lavoie serves
as wildlife veterinarian, biologist,
and project director.
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Agenda — Day Two
08:00-08:30
Day Two Overview
08:30-09:15
Zoonotic diseases & environmental change
Mike Drebot – National Microbiology Lab
09:15-10:00
Wildlife Toxicology in Canada
Christine Bishop – Environment Canada
10:00-10:30
coffee break
10:30-11:15
Diseases of Fresh Water Fish - Current Issues
Alexandra Reid – Ontario Veterinary College
11:15-12:00
Bovine Tuberculosis - Issues and Policies
Todd Shury – Parks Canada
12:00-12:45
lunch
12:45-13:00
Botulism on the Great Lakes
LeAnn White – USGS National Wildlife Health Centre
13:00-13:45
White Nose Syndrome
Scott McBurney – CCWHC
13:45-14:30
Chronic Wasting Disease
Yeen Ten Hwang – Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment & Trent Bollinger – CCWHC
14:30-15:15
Rabies in Canada
Hugh Whitney – Animal Health and Welfare, Govt. of Newfoundland and Labrador
15:15-15:45
coffee break
15:45-17:30
Canada’s Capacity for Rapid Wildlife Disease Investigation & Response
A workshop and discussion on current capacities and needs
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Topic Leaders — Day Two
Mike Drebot
Christine Bishop
PHAC—National Microbiology
Lab
Environment Canada
Mike is the Director of Science
Technology and Viral Zoonoses
at Public Health Agency of
Canada.
Alexandra Reid
Todd Shury
Ontario Veterinary College
Parks Canada
Alexandra is a final-semester
PhD Candidate in Comparative
Pathology at the Fish Pathology
Laboratory focused on lectinVHSV interaction, at the Ontario
Veterinary College, University
of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Todd is a Parks Canada wildlife
veterinarian and an adjunct
professor in the Department of
Veterinary Pathology in the Western
College of Veterinary Medicine at
the University of Saskatchewan.
LeAnn White
Scott McBurney
USGS National Wildlife Health
Centre
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LeAnn is a Wildlife Disease
Specialist with the USGS
National Wildlife Health Center
located in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Christine is a Research Scientist
with Environment Canada, and an
adjunct professor with University of
British Columbia and Simon Fraser
University.
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Scott is a staff wildlife pathologist
with CCWHC Atlantic, located at
the Atlantic Veterinary College in
Charlottetown, PEI.
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Agenda — Day Two
Yeen Ten Hwang
Trent Bollinger
Ministry of Environment, SK
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Yeen Ten is Chief Ecologist
with the Fish and Wildlife
Branch, Saskatchewan
Ministry of Environment. She
is also an Adjunct Professor in
the Department of Veterinary
Pathology at the Western
College of Veterinary
Medicine, University of
Saskatchewan
Trent is an associate professor in the
WCVM's Department of Veterinary
Pathology as well as the Director of,
and a wildlife pathologist with, the
Canadian Cooperative Wildlife
Health Centre.
Hugh Whitney
Newfoundland & Labrador
Provincial Government
Hugh is the government of
Newfoundland and Labrador’s
chief veterinarian" and Chair's
Canada's Federal-Provincial/
Territorial committee in rabies
surveillance.
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The CCWHC has recently set up a new website: www.healthywildlife.ca. The
purpose of this new website is to deliver relevant wildlife-health related
information to the general public.
This new website is set up in the style of a blog, with the hope that we can
form a broad community of people interested in wildlife health. Comments
and contributed material are appreciated and will help to make the site more
informative and useful as a resource.
At the present time, the site is in its infancy, but we would urge you to
bookmark this site and sign up for its RSS feed to keep yourself informed.
If you would like to contribute content or would like to make any suggestions
about content or features you would like to see on healthywildlife.ca, please
let us know at: info@healthywildlife.ca.
You can also now follow CCWHC on:
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Our Mission: To provide an integrated partnership
approach to the delivery of wildlife health services,
research, and education in Canada and internationally.
Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre
Headquarters Office
Western College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Saskatchewan
52 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 5B4
ph: 1-800-567-2033
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