Summer Institute in
Infectious Diseases 2005
IMPACTS OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
ON LOCAL + GLOBAL COMMUNITIES
Monday, May 30 – Friday, June 3, 2005
Biography:
Dr. John Pasick is the Head of the Classical Swine Fever & Avian Diseases Section of the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease,
Canadian Science Centre for Human & Animal Health.Dr. Pasick received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph in 1982. He practiced veterinary medicine for several years in southern Ontario. Pasick also received an M.Sc. from McMaster University for research dealing with control of gene expression in herpes simplex virus. He received a PhD from University of Western Ontario for research dealing the pathogenesis of demyelinating diseases in rodents caused by mouse hepatitis virus. Pasick joined Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as a virologist in 1993, and has been at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease since 1997.
His primary areas of responsibility include research and diagnostic activities against classical swine fever, African swine fever, avian influenza, Newcastle disease, bluetongue, and pseudorabies.