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Secretary’s Animal Health Advisory Committee to Include Two AASV Members

December 22, 2010 — 

AASV members Dr. Howard Hill and Dr. Elizabeth Wagstrom were recently named to USDA's Animal Health Advisory Committee. In addition, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack named the following individuals to serve two-year terms as members of the committee.

  • Mazimiliano Fernandez, a cattle and sheep rancher from Washington state
  • John Fischer, a professor of wildlife disease from the University of Georgia at Athens
  • Andrew Goodwin, a professor of aquaculture at the University of Arkansas
  • Vicki Hebb, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe who raises cows, calves and bucking horses
  • Donald Hoenig, state veterinarian from Maine
  • Morris Johnson, a livestock farmer from Arkansas
  • John Kalmey, a dairy, corn and alfalfa farmer from Kentucky
  • Charles Massengill, former epidemiologist and animal health laboratory director for the Missouri Department of Agriculture and Animal Health
  • David Meeker, senior vice president of Scientific Services, National Renderers Association from Virginia
  • Judith McGeary, a sustainable farmer and attorney on agricultural law from Texas
  • Boyd Parr, state veterinarian from South Carolina
  • S. Gennell Pridgen, a small farm livestock producer from North Carolina
  • Willie Reed, dean for the school of veterinary medicine at Purdue University in Indiana
  • Charles Rogers, a livestock dealer and marketer from New Mexico
  • Philip Stayer, a poultry veterinarian from Mississippi
  • Gilles Stockton, a ranch operator and farmer from Montana
  • Brian Thomas, a cattle producer from the Duck Valley Reservation
  • Cindy Wolf, a sheep and cattle farmer and ruminant specialist from Minnesota

The committee will advise the Secretary on actions related to prevention, surveillance and the control of animal diseases of national importance. In doing so, the committee will consider the implications of public health, conservation of natural resources and the stability of livestock economies.

The committee will meet for the first time in January 2011.