Animal Welfare
in killing for disease control
23-26 September, 2014.
Pescara, Italy.
Tutor’s List
Training activities on Animal Welfare mainly for EU Member States
under the 'Better Training for Safer Food' Initiative.
Service Contract N. 2012 96 04
Contractor:
lstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "G.Caporale" (I)
Sub-contractors:
Aarhus University (DK), Scotland’s Rural College (UK), Università degli Studi di Milano (I)
Scientific Co-ordinator
PROFILE
Name: David G. Pritchard
Education: BSc (Hons), B Vet Med, MPH,
MRCVS
Organisation: Veterinary Concultancy
Services Limited, United Kingdom
Current job title: Consultant on Animal
Welfare Science and Practice
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
David Pritchard is a consultant in animal welfare
science and practice having been formerly Senior
Veterinary Consultant on Animal Welfare for
DEFRA, UK.
He is Director of Veterinary Concultancy Services
Limited, of the University Federation for Animal
Welfare and trustee of the Humane Slaughter
Assocation; he also holds a Honorary Senior
Lecturership in Animal Welfare at Royal Veterinaty
College London. He studied at London University
and University of Minnesota. After a period in
veterinary practice, he joined the Central Veterinary
Laboratory at Weybridge and developed research
specialism in bacterial and fungal diseases including
tuberculosis and leptospirosis. He has 21 years
experience of international negotiation of
veterinary rules for EU Trade, disease control and
animal welfare . He has chaired the Treaty for Farm
Animal protection of the Council of Europe and
the Welfare Group on Cetaceans for the
International Whaling Commission.
For over 10 years, Dr. Pritchard has worked with
the Farm Animal Welfare Council, has led the
DEFRA animal welfare science research
programme and the revision of the national welfare
legislation and various welfare operations, including
outbreaks of CSF, FMD, HPAI.
He has lectured in many countries and been an
appointed examiner for the Royal College of
Veterinary Surgeons, the Universities of London
and Edinburgh.
He has authored a range of scientific papers, and
book chapters on law, strategies and quality
assurance of animal welfare. He has taken an
interest in training of veterinary services in
developing and implementing effective policies for
improving animal welfare, both nationally and
internationally, though TAIEX and the Better
Training for Better Food Inititiative of the
European Union Commission, and with the OIE
(World Organisation of Animal Health).
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Tutors
PROFILE
Name: Barbara Alessandrini
Education: Degree in Law, Master in
Educational Processes Management
Organisation:
Istituto
Zooprofilattico
Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise
“G.Caporale” Teramo - Italy
Current job title: Head of Training Unit
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Barbara Alessandrini is responsible for the Training
Unit at Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’
Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale”, OIE
Collaborating Centre for Veterinary Training,
Epidemiology, Food Safety and Animal Welfare,
where she has been working for 22 years.
Graduated in Law at the University of Teramo, she
started her carrier as journalist, working four years
in local TVs. She studied scientific journalism at the
Libera Università degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) in
Rome, Technical Reporting at the University of
Colorado, Communication of Public Administration
at the US Department of Agriculture, and Food
Safety Systems Leadership at the University of
Minnesota.
Expert in risk communication and specialist of adult
learning processes, she is responsible for
formulation and management of training projects,
delivered both traditionally and at distance, she
addresses web based communication and training
initiatives in the framework of international research
and assistance projects in veterinary public health.
PROFILE
Name: Charles Bourns
Organisation: Copa-Cogeca
Current job title: Chairman of the Advisory
Group on Poultry and Eggs and vice-chair of
the Copa-Cogeca’s Working group on poultry
and eggs
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Charles Bourns is chairman of the advisory group
on Poultry and Eggs and vice-chair of the CopaCogeca’s working group on poultry and eggs.
Copa (European farmers) and Cogeca (European
agricooperatives) are two organisations representing
30 million farmers and their families as well as
around 40,000 cooperatives.
Copa-Cogeca’s aims to promote general interests of
the agriculture sector and maintain and develop
relations with EU-institutions, as well as with other
representative organisations at European level.
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PROFILE
Name: Paolo Calistri
Education: DVM
Organisation:
Istituto
Zooprofilattico
Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise
“G.Caporale” Teramo - Italy
Current job title: Head of Epidemiology and
Information Systems Unit
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Paolo Calistri is Head of Epidemiology and
Information Systems Unit of the National Reference
Centre for Epidemiology of Istituto Zooprofilattico
Sperimentale dell’ Abruzzo e del Molise ”G.
Caporale”.
He is involved in several international activities as
risk analysis expert and supports the activities of the
OIE Collaborating Centre for Veterinary Training,
Epidemiology, Food Safety and Animal Welfare,
located at the Institute, planning surveillance
activities, developing information systems, including
GIS applications and performing risk assessment
studies.
Since 2007, Paolo Calistri has been also tutor in
different BTSF training courses.
PROFILE
Name: Silvia D’Albenzio
Education: Degree in Philosophy, Master
in Human Resources Management
Organisation: Istituto Zooprofilattico
Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise
“G. Caporale” (IZSAM) - Teramo, Italy
Current job title: Senior Trainer
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Working for many years in the field of Human
Resources Management, she joined IZSAM in 2007.
She has a strong experience in: team building & team
management, research on training needs, skills’ balance
& vocational guidance, planning & management of
training initiatives both with traditional and eLearning
methods,
implementation,
organisation
&
management of national
and transnational
partnerships, teaching, organisation & management of
press conferences, congresses and workshops at
regional, national and European level, and also
participation in them as speakers. Since 2007, she is
involved in planning and management of DG SANCO
training projects.
PROFILE
Name: Antoni Dalmau
Education: DVM, PhD
Organisation: Institut de Recerca i
Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Spain
Current job title: Animal Welfare Research
Scientist
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Animal Welfare Research Scientist at IRTA from
2005, he has matured a strong background on:
Animal welfare during transport and slaughter; Farm
and abattoir assessment of animal welfare; Fear, pain,
social and feeding behaviour of farm animals and
wild ruminants.
His research activities are mainly focused on animal
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welfare, such as:
-stunning prior to slaughter with nitrogen: effect on
animal welfare and meat quality in pigs;
-containability and aversiveness of different gas
mixtures used for the stunning of slaughter weight
pigs;
-dietary supplementation of natural tranquillizers on
pigs with different stress genotypes: effect on animal
welfare and on meat technological and sensorial
quality;
-animal welfare and product quality optimisation in
the carbon dioxide stunning of pigs and lamb.
PROFILE
Name: Antonio Di Nardo
Education: DVM
Organisation: Unità Territoriale Veterinaria,
Dipartimento di Prevenzione, ASL 2 (Local
Health Services), Lanciano Vasto Chieti
Current job title: Veterinarian
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Antonio Di Nardo is veterinary officer in charge of
animal health at Prevention Department of Local
Health, ASL 2 Lanciano Vasto Chieti. His latest
working experiences could be as follow resumed:
- 2010 – 2014: Veterinarian in charge of animal
health at the Prevention Department of Local Health
- 2002-2010: Researcher at the Animal Welfare
Research Centre of Istituto Zooprofilattico
Sperimentale dell’ Abruzzo e del Molise ”G.
Caporale”.
-2001 FMD Control Centre, DEFRA, Exeter, UK,
Temporary Veterinary Inspector on Foot and Mouth
Disease Eradication;
-1999-2000 St. David's Farm & Equine Practice
Exeter, UK Equine and Bovine clinical work,
Official Veterinary Surgeon in red and white meat
abattoirs, Local Veterinary Iinspector work panel 1a,
1b, 1c, 1d, 1l, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Panels;
Member of the panel for the scientific colloquium on
Principles of Risk Assessment in Food Producing
Animals, WG Risk Assessment of Animal Welfare,
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), 2005
Parma (I). Invitation as expert veterinarian at the
Animal Health and Animal Welfare Working Group
on Calf Welfare, European Food Safety Authority
(EFSA), 2006 Bruxelles (B). International Workshop
on Navigation System regarding “Animal Welfare in
Transportation, JRC (EC), 2006 Induno-Olona (I);
He is also author of international publications and
posters.
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PROFILE
Name: Marien Gerritzen
Education: DVM, PhD
Organisation: WUR, Netherlands
Current job title: Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Marien Gerritzen is currently a Senior scientific
researcher at Wageningen University and Research
Centre. Since 1997 has been working in the field of
animal welfare in relation with stunning and
transport of animals like poultry, pigs, ruminants and
fish.
Since 2001 a major part of his work has consisted of
research in the field of killing animals for disease
control purpose. In 2006 he finished his PhD thesis
on acceptable methods for large scale on-farm killing
of poultry for disease control. He is first author and
co-author of a considerable number of scientific
papers in the fields of animal welfare and stress
physiology. He is involved in other projects like
castration of piglets under general anaesthesia and
automatically scoring of foot pad lesions in broiler
chickens. He is reviewer of scientific publications for
journals as Animal Welfare and Poultry Science. He
is a member of advisory boards for the Dutch
Ministry of Economic Affairs concerning stunning
and killing of animals and animal transport.
Furthermore he acts as scientific contact point as
supposed in EU regulation 1099/2009.
PROFILE
Name: James Sawyer
Education: BSc Geography, MSc Emergency
Planning and Disaster Management, OCS
Off Site Safety Management
Organisation: World Animal Protection. UK
Current job title: Director of Disaster
Management
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
James Sawyer is Director of Disaster Management of
the World Animal Protection. He is responsible for
global strategy on animals in disasters which includes
response as well as working partnerships with both
governments and humanitarians to integrate animals
into disaster response and contingency planning. Dr.
Sawyer has spent his entire career involved in
international delivery of programmes across five
continents, from fieldwork to remote management.
He is also an explorer having led 14 expeditions to
remote and unexplored locations. He is a fellow of
the Royal Geographical Society and a Chartered
Geographer.
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PROFILE
Name: Antonio Velarde Calvo
Education: BVSc, Msc, PhD
Organisation: Institut de Recerca i
Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Spain
Current job title: Animal Welfare Research
Scientist
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Antonio Velarde holds a Veterinarian Sciences
degree (1995), a Master (1998) and a PhD (2000) in
Animal Production, and Master (2008) in Science
and Welfare of Laboratory Animals from the
Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is
Diplomate of the European College of Animal
Welfare and Behaviour Medicine and member of the
Animal Health and Animal Welfare Panel of the
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Currently
hev is head of the Animal Welfare Subprogram in
IRTA (Institute for Food and Agricultural Research
and Technology-Spain). His research topics include:
development of animal welfare assessment systems
on farm and at slaughter, risk assessment for animal
welfare, stunning prior to slaughter with gas
mixtures, religious slaughter, renovation and
promoting high quality control posts during long
transports, the role of cognitive bias in animal
emotions, and alternatives to the castration of pigs.
He has published more than 45 papers in
international journals. He is Scientific coordinator
and/or tutor of training courses on animal welfare
on farm, during transport and at slaughter, organized
under the program ‘Better training for safer food’ of
DG SANCO of the EU Commission.
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Facilitators of group activities
PROFILE
Name: Elisa Di Fede
Education: DVM, Post Degree
Specialisation.
Organisation: Istituto Zooprofilattico
Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise
“G. Caporale” (IZSAM) - Teramo, Italy
Current job title: Veterinary Technician
Email: [email protected]
PROFILE
Name: Stefano Messori
Education:
Specialist
degree
in
Veterinary Medicine. PhD in Animal
Nutrition
Organisation: Istituto Zooprofilattico
Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise
“G. Caporale” (IZSAM) - Teramo, Italy
Current job title: Veterinarian
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
During her university studies, Elisa Di Fede wrote
two thesis on animal welfare with special reference
to dairy cows and laying hens. She obtained a Post
degree Specialisation in Technology and Pathology
of poultry species, rabbit and game.
Elisa Di Fede collaborated with IZSAM Teramo
providing scientific and technical support in
animal welfare research activities, carried out
within the framework of the OIE Collaborating
Centre for Veterinary Training, Epidemiology,
Food Safety and Animal Welfare. She was
involved in:
- CAROdog website development, providing
scientific support;
- research projects on dog population
management, focusing on shelter dog quality
management;
- providing scientific and technical support for the
production of Animal Welfare eLearning
materials;;
- development of protocols to asses farm animal
welfare in the framework of two EU funded
projects.
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Stefano Messori graduated with honors at the
University of Parma in 2006 (Doctor of Veterinary
Medicine). After graduating, he worked on field as
private practitioner in France and as a meat
inspector for the Italian Local Health Service. In
2011 he earned a PhD in animal nutrition at the
University of Bologna, defending a thesis titled
“Dietary strategies to minimize the detrimental
impact of weaning on gut morphology, physiology
and microbiota of piglets".
Since 2011 he has worked as a researcher on
animal welfare at the IZSAM Teramo, OIE
Collaborating Centre on Veterinary Training,
Epidemiology, Food safety and Animal Welfare.
His work focuses mainly on the use of animalbased measures for the in-field animal welfare
assessment. He is currently involved in two EU
projects focusing on the development of a farm
animal welfare assessment protocol. His primary
research interests are:
-use of animal-based measures for the in-field
animal welfare assessment;
-applied animal behaviour;
-development of innovative solutions for the
control of dog population.
He is co-author in several scientific publications.
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