2007 Avances in Veterinary Medicine Day Keynote Address

"Three Strikes and You're Out: the Critical Role of Research"

Dr. H. Scott Hurd
12:00 - 2:00 pm April 12, 2007
Veterinary Hospital Auditorium

Dr. Scott Hurd is Professor in Charge of Foodborne Disease Models and Risk Analysis Unit, Institute for Food Safety and Security at Iowa State University. He is also Director of World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Risk Analysis and Hazard Surveillance and Intervention in Food Animals. Dr. Hurd’s current research is to identify, quantify and document the public health impacts of various on-farm management practices such as salmonella control and antibiotic use in food animals. His field research activities focused on epidemiology and ecology of foodborne pathogens (Salmonella, Campylobacter) in swine and turkeys and their environment. He has identified important preharvest control points that will reduce the prevalence of pathogens. Dr. Hurd was an analyst on the first BSE risk assessment (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) in the US, published in 1990. He has also conducted quantitative risk assessments for Classical Swine Fever, Tuberculosis in Michigan white-tailed deer, avian influenza, Salmonella enteritidis in shell eggs, and xenotransplantation from swine. Most recently, Dr. Hurd published a quantitative analysis of the public health risk from using macrolide antibiotics in food animals and an analysis of the public health benefits from antibiotic use in poultry.

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