Professor Ian Beveridge
BVSc (Hons), PhD, DVSc (Melbourne)
Professor in Veterinary Parasitology
Ian Beveridge is Professor of Veterinary Parasitology in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include systematics and biology of helminth (round worms) and arthropod (ecto) parasites of marsupials, systematics of cestodes (tapeworms) of elasmobrachs (sharks, rays, skates), ticks, and diagnosis and pathogenesis of helminth infections in domestic animals. He has previously been employed by the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science in Adelaide, South Australia and the Department of Tropical Veterinary Sciences at James Cook University in North Queensland, Australia. Ian contributes to the Australian Society for Parasitology and editorial boards of several international journals. Professor Beveridge is a major contributor to wildlife disease research and publications at the Veterinary Faculty, commencing with the wildlife disease unit during the 1970s. He has produced eleven book chapters, eight monographs, 270 papers in refereed scientific journals, including many on diseases and parasites of Australian wildlife.
Email: ibeve@unimelb.edu.au
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Andrew Vizard
Andrew is Associate Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne. He is also the senior consultant with, and former Director of, the Mackinnon Project at the same University. This enterprise is recognised as a world leader in delivering practical advice to farmer and agribusiness on a wide range of agricultural and economic issues. Professor Vizard is the author of over 50 scientific papers on a range of epidemiological matters. Professor Vizard also serves on the board of several statutory bodies, scientific organisations and companies including Animal Health Australia Ltd, the company responsible for co-ordinating and administrating Australia’s national animal health programs, including wildlife surveillance and The Zoological Parks and Gardens of Victoria, the body that administers Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and the Australian Wildlife Health Centre.
Email: a.vizard@unimelb.edu.au |
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Pam Whiteley
BVSc, MS, MACVS and BTeach
Pam Whiteley helped establish the Australian Wildlife Health Network in 2002 and was Australasian Section chairperson for the Wildlife Disease Association 2006-2008. Pam did her membership exams of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in both Epidemiology and Medicine of Australian Wildlife Species. She was Vet and Curator at Healesville Sanctuary between 1976-86 and in 1985 had a Churchill Fellowship to investigate wildlife disease research and management in North America. Pam did her Master of Science research into the effects of environmental contaminants on immune function and disease resistance of waterfowl with the US Fish and Wildlife Service at their National Wildlife Health Center and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. She has worked on bluetongue virus immunology at CSIRO Australian Animal Health Center, Geelong, and on rabbit calicivirus with the Victorian Department of Agriculture at their Veterinary Laboratory, Attwood. While a veterinary student Pam undertook research on blood parasites of ducks at the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment’s Arthur Rylah Institute for the Environment, Heidelberg. Pam looks forward to collaborating and contributing to the development of wildlife health surveillance in Victoria with links to the Australian Wildlife Health Network. She is grateful for the support of the Hermon Slade Foundation.
Email: pamw@unimelb.edu.au |
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