“Mad Cow and related TSE diseases: Science, Risks and Public Policy.”

University of Connecticut , Storrs , CT

Dodd Research Center – Konover Auditorium

October 6^th, 2005

Speaker/Topic List (Actual Titles may be revised by each speaker)

9:00am              Registration and refreshments

9:30                  Welcome: Dr. Lawrence Silbart,

Professor of Animal Science, Assistant Director, CEH, UCONN

9:35                  Introduction: Dean Kirklyn Kerr,

Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, UCONN

9:40                  Overview:

James Mastrianni, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology

University of Chicago

“The linkage between BSE and nvCJD in humans.”

10:15                Dr. Glenn Telling, Associate Professor

Sanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky

“Recent breakthroughs in Chronic Wasting Disease research”

10:45                Break

11:00                Dr. Richard French, Associate Professor

Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, UCONN

“Who Else is Mad: Deer, Elk, Cats, Mink, Kudu, Gemsbok, Nyala...”

11:30                Discussion - General Questions for Morning Speakers

11:45                Lunch – Buffet lunch at the Nathan Hale Inn (Blue Oak Café - Pavillion)

1:00 pm Dr. Joshua Cohen, Research Associate

Harvard School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management

Tentative Title: “The Harvard Risk Assessment – Conclusions and Impacts”

1:30                  Gregg Doud, Chief Economist

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association

“Economic impacts of false positives, presumptive positives and confirmed cases of BSE in the United States ”

2:00                  Afternoon break

2:15                  Linda Detweiler, D.V.M.; Consultant

Formerly with USDA/APHIS

Tentative title: “Surveillance programs for BSE and other TSE’s.”

2:45                  Dr. Andrea Morgan, Assistant Deputy Administrator, USDA/APHIS

“USDA’s approach to sampling, testing and handling of inconclusive cases”

3:15                  John Stewart, CEO and Founder,

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef

“Creekstone Farm’s offer to test for BSE and the USDA response”

3:45                  Closing remarks and adjourn

Organizing Committee: Lawrence Silbart, Diane Hirsch, Cameron Faustman, Richard French.

Co-sponsored by:         The Center for Environmental Health, Dept. of Animal Science, CANR, UCONN

The Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, CANR, UCONN

The Cooperative Extension Service