Always wanted to know how to become an Army Veterinary Officer and what they do? Listen to Dr. Laura Rothfeldt 's story and hear how she got into the Army and served in both Active Duty and Reservist. She also talks about how Veterinary School students get into the Army, as well as how her Army Education led to her current job as The Public Health Veterinarian for the State of Arkansas. And yes, she and Dr. DeBonis share their wartime stories when they were deployed at the same time to different areas of the world. Please share and subscribe to the AAFSPHV Channel, and remember: there is more to veterinary medicine that is beyond clinical practice!

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Here we are at Season 1 Episode 6 to hear from Dr. Buntain. Bonnie Buntain has a BS and MS in Animal Sciences from the University of Hawaii and a DVM from Colorado State University.  She is a Diplomate Emerita, American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Equine), Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, and Fellow in One Health at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK.    After 10 years in equine practice, Dr. Buntain worked in Washington DC from 1990-2007, including the FDA CVM (antibiotic approval in food animals) and then 16 years in the USDA, where she was Director of Animal Care in APHIS and then appointed to FSIS as a Senior Executive, where she was the founder of a new program, Animal Production Food Safety, then served as Assistant Deputy Administrator of Public Health, and was promoted to become the first Chief Public Health Veterinarian at USDA.  In 2007 she was recruited to start the new veterinary faculty and curriculum in food safety and public health at the University of Calgary, Canada, where she became one of the founding Deans (Assistant Dean of Government and International Relations) and founding Department Head of Ecosystem and Public Health.   Upon the death of her father and needing to provide care to her elderly mother in Arizona, she left UCVM “retiring” in 2014 and was awarded the honor of Professor Emerita in Food Safety and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary. In Arizona, she led the first accreditation proposal for the new and innovative University of Arizona’s College of Veterinary Medicine.  Recently she was awarded Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. She has published many peer reviewed articles on One Health and Food Safety, and continues to provide editorial service, speeches, webinars, and has written chapters in two books on the One Health approach and food safety.  Dr. Buntain has many awards throughout her federal and academic service career including Outstanding Food Safety Veterinarian, Woman Veterinarian of the Year, USDA FSIS Group Honor Award for Excellence in Animal Production Food Safety Team Leadership, Honorary Diploma from the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society, and Distinguished Practitioner from the National Academies of Practice.  Dr. Bonnie Buntain has proudly served on many national and international organizations and provided expert leadership, collaboration and contributions including strategic planning, food safety regulatory-legislative oversight and advice, and advancing federal and international food safety modernization, public health, biosecurity, food defense, and One Health.  She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her two Miniature Poodles and two horses.  For more info about the Amer. Assn of Food Safety and Public Health Veterinarians go to www.aafsphv.org . You can also reach Dr. DeBonis, President (2020 to 2022) at [email protected] .

SHOW LESSVan H. Brass II, DVM, MPH, DACVPM  can be reached at [email protected] and call/text at 239-246-2946 .  He is available for consultation, public speaking engagements, and clinical veterinary work. He has Specialization and experience in the areas of:

  International Public Health   Regulatory Medicine  Biorisk Management   Food Safety  Zoonotic Disease Surveillance and Control   One Health  Global Health Security   Curriculum Development and Delivery  Diagnostic Sample Collection and Transportation  Food Animal Medicine ====================================== 

OIE is the World Organisation for Animal Health, formerly the Office International des Epizooties is an intergovernmental organization coordinating, supporting and promoting animal disease control. https://www.oie.int/en/home/

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Pamela Abney, D.V.M.-Interview  on 4MAR2022 for AAFSPHV. 5/1979 Auburn University Veterinary School, Auburn, Alabama Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine ====================================== 

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS (categories) 

1-private practice  [AMC NYC Intern then emergency practice in Manhattan, house calls (backpack on subway), Willet Chair at Bergh Memorial-ASPCA Hospital (ophtho)]. Involved in organized vet med NYC VMA/NYSVMS.

 2-NGO  Was with AVMA GRD in DC ten years. Policy 5 yrs. (AMDUCA, MUMS, pets in public housing, cash/accrual accounting, etc). Political 5yrs. Managed the Congressional Action Network/grassroots, trained veterinarians to interact with elected officials, also supervised AVMAPAC coordinator. There during Clinton/early Bush years when moderates ruled/civility & compromise were in place. 

3-Government 14 yrs Got married went home to AL. Joined USDA/FSIS as public health veterinarian out of Jackson District. HIMP trained early. Became full time EIAO & worked from home/travel gov car to do recalls, food safety assessments (FSAs), investigation work.

4-Corporate  Director of Food Safety for privately held poultry broiler company in Delaware. Converted their processing plants to NPIS (2in DE, 1 in NC), started up a new processing plant in NC as NPIS, grant of inspection, cool Plant number, maintained Salmonella status in compliance for all plants after analysis of interventions & change to their program.

Michael J Gilsdorf, BS, DVM, MS, can be reached at [email protected]  for information on how to purchase his book,  Brucellosis Field, Laboratory and Reference Manual, 2020.  For more about Dr. Gilsdorf's career and to connect with him go to his LinkedIn.  To see the services he now offers, please visit his website International Animal Health Solutions.

 Dr. Waters has her MPH  (Masters in Public Health) and you can contact her on LinkedIn. She serves as our Executive Vice President (staff) of AAFSPHV, contact is E-mail the AAFSPHV at: [email protected] .  She is a CSU Veterinary grad.  Check out her amazing career in Public Health and in academia. 

Abbreviations we used in this episode are about our strategic partners: ACVPM (American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine) and NAFV (National Assn of Federal Veterinarians).

This is the phenomenal veterinary career of Dr. Eidson. She talks about how she followed her passions in veterinary medicine from her gradation from CSU in 1983 through public health epidemiology working for various governmental agencies all the way to her 2017 retirement.   After officially retiring, she has started a new career as a published author.  Her fictional medical mysteries feature Dr. Maya Maguire, a slightly flawed young veterinary protagonist. You can see more at https://drmayamaguire.com/  as well as  find  out where to buy all formats of her novels.  Welcome to Dr. Eidson's new mystery novels series, the MayaVerse, an exciting journey of Dr. Maya Maguire's unique veterinary career. Based on work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments in New Mexico and New York, Dr. Millicent Eidson expresses the excitement of public health through novels and shorter works.   As a public health faculty member in New York and Vermont, Professor Eidson has engaged public health professionals with a college course on zoonoses and climate change.  She is also the author of over a hundred scientific papers, articles, and book chapters.  “Dr. Millie” began her writing vocation with an underground satirical high school newspaper. Passionate about lifelong learning, Millie studies French, Spanish, painting and photography in addition to creative writing.  With formative years in the Southwest, Millie still enjoys family trips to Arizona and worldwide, but has settled in Vermont along Burlington's beautiful waterfront.  The fictional MayaVerse is supported by Millie's family. The lead character Maya Maguire was created in close collaboration with her daughter, Lian Henderson, adopted as an infant from China. Millie's husband and Lian's dad, Tom Henderson, is the audiobook producer.  The author is an active participant, workshop leader, and Secretary for the Burlington Writers Workshop (BWW). She embraces the workshop process as a source of writer support and growth.  She is also a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors, Sisters in Crime, Green Mountain Writers, and The Authors Guild.  https://twitter.com/eidsonmillicent https://www.instagram.com/drmayamaguire/