MREC Conference Presentations
Full Session Description
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Title: Bio-security
Speaker: Scott Wells
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Minnesota, College of of Veterinary Medicine
Address: Clinical
and Population Sciences; 1365
Gortner Ave.; St. Paul, MN 55108
Telephone: 612.625.8166
E-mail: wells023@umn.edu
About the Speaker:
Dr.
Wells is an assistant professor in the Veterinary Public Health Division of the
Department of Population and Clinical Sciences at the College of Veterinary
Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Until
1998, he was the dairy commodity support analyst for the National Animal Health
Monitoring System within the Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health in
USDA-APHIS-VS.
Dr.
Wells is a veterinary epidemiologist with current research interests in the
areas of prevention and control of infectious pathogens of dairy cattle,
including Johne’s disease and Salmonella.
After receiving his DVM from Michigan State
University in 1984, he worked in a primarily dairy veterinary practice in
Wisconsin. Dr. Wells received his
PhD in 1992 from the University of Minnesota and has been board certified in the American
College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine since 1997.