Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre CCWHC Workshop 2012 CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca Calgary Zoo 21st-22nd February
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. CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca 2
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 2 nd 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 CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca 3
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 CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca 4
Presenters Day One Marc Cattet CCWHC 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. Kyrstil Jones University of Calgary 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. Carin Wittnich Oceanographic Environmental Research Society Carin is one of the founding Directors of the Oceanographic Environmental Research Society (OERS). She leads the organization's scientific and rescue initiatives. Randy Killeen Canadian Veterinary Reserve Randy is a Veterinarian in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada. He is also the Alberta representative for the Canadian Veterinary Reserve. Chris Battaglia Focus Wildlife International 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. Martin Lavoie Biofilia 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. CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca 5
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 CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca 6
Topic Leaders Day Two Mike Drebot PHAC National Microbiology Lab Mike is the Director of Science Technology and Viral Zoonoses at Public Health Agency of Canada. Christine Bishop Environment Canada Christine is a Research Scientist with Environment Canada, and an adjunct professor with University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Alexandra Reid Ontario Veterinary College Alexandra is a final-semester PhD Candidate in Comparative Pathology at the Fish Pathology Laboratory focused on lectin- VHSV interaction, at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON Todd Shury Parks Canada 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 USGS National Wildlife Health Centre LeAnn is a Wildlife Disease Specialist with the USGS National Wildlife Health Center located in Madison, Wisconsin. Scott McBurney CCWHC Scott is a staff wildlife pathologist with CCWHC Atlantic, located at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown, PEI. CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca 7
Agenda Day Two Yeen Ten Hwang Ministry of Environment, SK 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 Bollinger CCWHC 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. CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca 8
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: Facebook: Twitter: http://tiny.cc/ccwhc http://twitter.com/ccwhc CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca 9
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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 em: hq@ccwhc.ca www.ccwhc.ca CCWHC Workshop 2012 www.ccwhc.ca 12