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A brief presentation of the invited speakers

Jouni Niemi

D.V.M., Managing Director

Finland

A father of two girls and two enterprises (Vetman and King's Road Vet Clinic) likes to spend his limited free time in the company of a bouncing ball (basket-ball) and running dogs (Greyhound). Jouni is a world wide known hoof specialist trained by "the" E. Toussaint Raven.

Presentation:

09:30 - 10:30 In Honour of E. Toussaint Raven

Yrjö Gröhn

D.V.M., M.S., M.P.V.M., Ph.D., Professor

USA

Yrjö is currently a Professor of Epidemiology and the Chair of the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca NY.

More infomation can be found at his website located at: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ytg1/

Presentation:

11:00 - 11:45 Economic Modelling

Jaakko Mononen

Ph.D, Professor

Finland

Jaakko is a Professor at the Department of Biosciences of Kuopio University where he focuses on animal behaviour and welfare.

A list of publications of his research group can be found at:
http://www.uku.fi/sbi/ehv_julkaisut.pdf

Presentation:

11:00 - 11:45 Ethogram

Nigel Cook

BSc BVSc Cert. CHP DBR Dip. ECBHM MRCVS, Associate Professor

UK / USA

Nigel Cook is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Food Animal Production Medicine section of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine.

More information can be found at the University of Wisconsin-Madison website: http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/people/nbcook

Presentations:

13:30 - 14:15 Cow Comfort
17:10 - 17:40 First Step - a program to assist in the troubleshooting and prevention of lameness in dairy herds

Neil Chesterton

BVSc

New Zealand

Neil, a veterinarian in clinical practice, works in New Zealand with great interest and focus on the prevention of lameness in pasture fed dairy herds, and he has been awarded the Australasian College Medal for his work in this field.

More information can be found in the about section of his web pages: http://homepages.inspire.net.nz/~chesterton/#about

Presentation:

14:15 - 15:00 Cow Comfort

Paul Geenough

F.R.C.V.S., Professor Emeritus of Veterinary Surgery

Canada

Paul Greenough retired 1992 as a Professor of Surgery from the Western College of Veterinary in Canada. He coauthored three editions of "Lameness in Cattle." In 2007 he published "Bovine Laminitis and Lameness: A Hands-on Approach." He has a web site on bovine lameness at www.cowdoc.net.

Presentation:

15:30 - 17:00 Nomenclature and Atlas Update

Unfortunately, Paul got sick and cannot come.
However, his presentation is not cancelled but presented by Dana Tomlinson and Dörte Döpfer.

Dana Tomlinson

M.S., Ph.D., Research Nutritionist
Zinpro Corporation

USA

Dana provides technical support to the North and Central American, Canadian and South African sales teams, customers and prospects. He has participated as an invited speaker on dairy cattle lameness in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Chile, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand.
Dana was raised on a dairy in Northeast Ohio with registered Guernsey cattle and Suffolk sheep.

Dörte Döpfer

D.V.M., M.Sc., Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Netherlands / USA

Dörte has worked in bovine clinics, taught infectious diseases as an assistant professor at Utrecht University and worked as a senior veterinary epidemiologist in Wageningen. Since spring 2008, she became an assistant professor in the Farm Animal Production Medicine Group of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin.