L - R: Sithar Dorjee, Arata Hidano, Omid Nekouei, Thitiwan Patanasatienkul, Crawford Revie, Raphael Vanderstichel, Krishna Thakur, Ruth Cox, Ian Dohoo, Fernanda Dorea, Jette Christensen. * Missing from photo: Henrik Stryhn, Ahmed Elmoslemany
CVER Members present at ISVEE 13
Recently a group of 13 CVER members travelled to the 13th Confernce of the International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE XIII), in the city of Maastricht, close to the border of the Netherlands and Belgium.
Drs. Ian Dohoo and Henrik Stryhn delivered pre-ISVEE courses in Introductory and Advanced Multilevel Modelling. CVER Members delivered Oral and Poster Presentations during the conference.
Oral Presentations:
“A Mathematical Model for Evaluating Mitigation Strategies of Biofouling Ciona intestinalis in Prince Edward Island, Canada” – Thitiwan Patanasatienkul
“The use of the bibliometric H-index to quantify pathogen impact in North America” - Ruth Cox
“Risk factors for culling and death in New Zealand dairy cows, 2000-2011" – Arata Hidano
"Syndromic Surveillance based on laboratory test requests in the province of Ontario, Canada" - Fernanda Dorea
Poster Presentations:
"Prevalence and control of Bovine Viral Diarrhea in two large industrial dairies around Tehran-Iran" – Omid Nekouei
“One-Health Modeling of Pandemic Influenza in Human and Swine Populations” – Sithar Dorjee
“Characteristics of swine shipments in southwestern Ontario, Canada” – Sithar Dorjee
"Analysis and characterization of swine movement in four Canadian provinces" - Krishna Thakur
“Modelling the effectiveness of cleaner fish for the biological control of sea lice in farmed salmon” - Ruth Cox
“How do we set the probability of introduction in a scenario tree model to demonstrate freedom from disease?” - Jette Christensen1, Henrik Stryhn2, Raphael Vanderstichel2; 1 Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada; 2 Centre for Veterinary Epidemiological Research, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
“Capture-recapture methods to estimate commercial turkey farm population in Canada” - Farouk El Allaki1a, Jette Christensen1b, and André Vallières1a; 1Canadian Food Inspection Agency, aSt-Hyacinthe, bCharlottetown, Canada
"Standards for reporting surveillance information in freedom from infection modeling by example of T. spiralis in Canadian swine" - Raphael Vanderstichel, Jette Christensen, Henrik Stryhn, Daniel Hurnik
"A nomogram to calculate output estimates from surveillance models used to confirm freedom from infection" - Raphael Vanderstichel, Charles Caraguel
"Fractional polynomial for modeling continuous predictors" - Ian Dohoo, Raphael Vanderstichel, Liza Nielsen, Henrik Stryhn
