Organizing Committee

Beatriz Martinez Lopez, DVM, MPVM, PhD

Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine & Epidemiology of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Director of the Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) and co-director of the Center for Spatial Sciences

Robert J. Hijmans, PhD

Professor in Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Spatial Sciences

Christopher Barker, MS, MS, PhD

Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and co-director of the Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases.

Tim Carpenter, MS, MS, PhD

Emeritus Professor in the Department of Medicine & Epidemiology of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

Management and Local Organizing Team

Pamela Dinsmore, Event Manager, Office of the Dean, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Rebecca Ferreira, Project Manager, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance
Alexander Kramer, Website Developer, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance
Michele Tobias, GIS Data Curator, UC Davis Library
Alexander Mandel, Center for Spatial Sciences and Geospatial and Farming Systems Research Consortium
Jerome Baron, Epidemiology PhD student, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance
Jaber Belkhiria, Post Doctoral Researcher, One Health Institute
Jose Pablo Gomez, Epidemiology PhD student, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance
Kyuyoung Lee, Epidemiology PhD student, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance
Laura Patternson, Epidemiology PhD student, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance
Kathleen O’Hara, Epidemiology PhD student, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance
Gema Vidal, Epidemiology PhD student, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance
Sadegh Shams, Computer Science PhD student
Keith Sollers, Applied Math PhD student