Speakers
5th IDF International Mastitis Conference 2010 will follow a similar format to previous conferences:
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Sunday 21 March |
Registration, Welcome reception |
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Monday 22 March |
Registration, Conference sessions, Poster displays |
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Tuesday 23 March |
Conference sessions, Poster displays, Conference dinner |
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Wednesday 24 March |
Conference sessions, Poster displays |
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The following speakers have been confirmed:
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Animals |
Dr Sarne De Vleigher from the University of Gent is a veterinarian with particular expertise in heifer mastitis and animal responses to mastitis. He will review the variability of animals in their susceptibility to infection and the severity of the mastitic response. |
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Overall Review |
Independent Consultant
Prof Walther Heeschen is one of the enduring characters of milk quality and mastitis. His key paper at the 1975 (first) IDF Mastitis Conference remains a signal reference on cell counting. He provides a breadth of knowledge from science to regulatory affairs, and from politics to commerce, that makes him ideally qualified to present the overall plenary review. |
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Environment |
Prof Joe Hogan of The Ohio State University has long specialised in environmental mastitis, its control and especially risk factors associated with new infections including housing and bedding, nutrition, and immune responses. He is a past President of NMC (National Mastitis Council). |
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Economics |
Dr Henk Hogeveen has a broad history in mastitis research, most recently in economic modelling of infection and control. He was lead organiser of the Mastricht Conference and is currently chair of the IDF Standing Committee on Animal Health. |
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Mastitis and Milk Quality |
Chris Kelly was appointed Chief Executive of Landcorp Farming Ltd (which is a State Owned Enterprise and New Zealand's largest corporate farmer) in March 2001. He previously held various positions with the New Zealand Dairy Board, including Strategic Planning Manager, General Manager for Corporate Planning and Global Head of Strategic Industry Relations. Chris also had extensive experience representing farmer interests to the Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd and the Animal Health Board. In his earlier career, he practiced as a veterinary surgeon and lecturer. He was a Veterinary Advisor for Glaxo Animal Health Ltd and was the General Manager for North East Asia/New Zealand for Pitman Moore Ltd (previously Coopers Animal Health Ltd).
Chris was Chairman of AgVax Developments a subsidiary of AgResearch, responsible for commercialisation of Animal Health Products.
Chris is an accredited Director with the Institute of Directors. As well as being on the Board of National Centre for Advanced BioProtection Technologies, he is also a Director of NZ Agricultural ITO, Landcorp Estates Ltd, Landcorp Developments Ltd, and is a member of the Massey Council. |
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Control in Pastoral Systems |
Scott graduated from the Veterinary Science course at Sydney University and after 2 years in mixed practice undertook a tutorship in production medicine at the University of Sydney. Following completion of a PhD at Massey university/Dairying Research Corporation Ruakura (now DairyNZ) on postpartum anoestrous in dairy cattle. Scott is currently involved in a 40 person veterinary business which focuses on dairy cattle where he leads the research team. Scott has interests in mastitis therapy and management of dairy cattle (and goats), especially under the pastoral systems of New Zealand. |
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Milking Management |
Dr Morten Rasmussen is renowned for his work on operation of the milking machine and mastitis detection including on automated milking systems. He spent four years as chair of the IDF Standing Committee on Farm Management. |
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Quality and Technology
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Cornell University USA
Ynte Schukken is a Professor of Epidemiology and Herd Health in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences. Dr Schukken received his DVM from the University of Utrecht in 1985, his M.Sc. from Cornell University in 1987, and his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Utrecht.
Dr Schukken’s current research interests include udder health, food safety and milk quality in well managed dairy herds, understanding population dynamics of infectious diseases in animal populations, and the application of epidemiological, statistical and mathematical methods to animal disease research. |
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Improving Milk Quality in the Developing World
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Lior Yaron was appointed to Director Global Customer Project Support in September 2006. He is responsible for providing new large dairy customers with total customised solutions and supporting existing large dairy customers with knowledge and advanced competence training. Before joining DeLaval, Lior worked with a number of dairy farms in Africa, Eastern Europe and China. He has held many different dairy farm management, project design and dairy cattle training positions in more than 10 developing countries.
In 2003 Lior received the “Great Wall Friendship Award” from the Prime Minister of Beijing for supporting the China dairy development. Lior Yaron constantly applies his knowledge and experience to the dairy sector to improve overall dairy farm management and sustainable dairy farming techniques for the future.
Lior Yaron is author and co-author of a number of dairy science publications and books on milk production, dairy farm design and nutrition management. He is also a frequent speaker in seminars related to dairy cow management, design and nutrition. |
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Making Sense of New Sensing Systems for Cow-side Diagnosis of Mastitis
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Dr Graeme Mein is an Australian who has spent most of his working life in milking research, technical training and education of udder health specialists in many dairying countries.
Graeme established the Milking Research Centre at Werribee, Victoria in the 1970s and became Director of the Food Research Institute, Werribee, in the late 1980s.
In 1990, Graeme moved to the USA for 10 years as a Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he helped to establish the Milking Research and Instruction Laboratory.
Dr Mein is now ‘retired' but continues to consult part-time as a scientific adviser for the NZ-based biosensor company, Sensortec Ltd. |
Sarne De Vliegher
Walther Heeschen
Joe Hogan
Henk Hogeveen
Chris Kelly
Scott McDougall
Morten Rasmussen 
Ynte Schukken
Lior Yaron M.Sc