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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 249-257
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Dr. Alan Kelly received his veterinary medical education at Bristol University in England and then came to the University of Pennsylvania on a National Cancer Institute Fellowship to pursue a PhD in Pathology.
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He helped establish the Animal Poison Control Center there. His research interests have included the pathophysiology and fate in the body of mycotoxins and bluegreen algal toxins, the residues and effects of heavy metal contaminants in marine mammals, the potential of brominated flame retardants to trigger thyroid adenomas and hyperthyroidism in cats; and the causes of mass die-offs in flamingos including potential roles of metals, algal toxins, and infectious agents.
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At the USDA Dr. Buntain advised the Office of Field Operations of all veterinary issues regarding food safety, humane slaughter and handling and optimizing the use, retention and recruitment of public health veterinarians.
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Childers served as the president of the AVMA, and served on the AVMA Councils on Education and Public Relations, the Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities, and as a consultant to the National Board Examination Committee. As an AVMA Executive Board member, he represented District I, acting on behalf of veterinarians in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont, on the AVMA Executive Board.
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Davis served as the Chief of Ultrastructural Pathology at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, MD., and as Chief of Pathology at the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He decided to make a career in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry and worked at American Cyanamid Inc.
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Dr. McNamara was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Associate of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine (Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and Global Environment, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Conservation Medicine and Wildlife Trust)
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His scientific career focused on the health and welfare of food animals, particularly cattle and sheep. He has been involved in key discoveries about food animal viruses, developmental immunology, congenital infections and more recently, food safety.
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Fred Quimby is the former Associate Vice President and Senior Director of the Laboratory Animal Research Center at Rockefeller University, positions he held until 2007. Before arriving at Rockefeller, he was a Professor of Pathology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine.
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Regulatory Affairs at Pfizer Animal Health's Veterinary Medicine Research and Development organization. He served as a private practitioner in companion and food animal practices for five years.
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