Aust EI vet receives Queen’s Birthday honour
Dr Michael Garner, who managed the national programme to eradicate equine flu inward Australia, has been made a Member of the Order of Commonwealth of Australia (AM) for service to veterinary scientific discipline inward Queen’s Birthday Honours.
A Senior Principal Research Scientist, Garner was involved inward the EI programme inward 2007-2008. He heads the Animal Health Epidemiology Program, Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries too Forestry, too has too been involved inward the evolution too advertisement of Australia’s national beast wellness systems.
Garner has internationally recognised skills inward veterinary epidemiology too affliction management with his major interrogation on simulation modelling of infectious diseases. He has an extensive listing of peer-reviewed scientific publications. He has led the evolution of what is regarded equally the world’s virtually sophisticated calculator model of foot-and-mouth disease.
Garner is alongside 5 veterinarians inward Commonwealth of Australia named inward the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) spokesman Dr Barry Smyth said he was immensely proud of each of the recipients too the contribution they accept made to veterinary science.
“The awards non entirely recognise the difficult hold upwards too dedication of these private veterinarians, only too the invaluable contribution that all veterinarians brand to agriculture, science, beast welfare too the full general community.”
The other iv recipients are:
Emeritus Professor Mary Darvall Barton was awarded an AO for distinguished service to veterinary scientific discipline too world health, too to educational activity through academic too administrative roles at the University of South Australia.
Barton is Emeritus Professor of Microbiology inward the School of Pharmacy too Medical Sciences of the University of South Commonwealth of Australia too Fellow of the Australian Veterinary Association. Her interrogation interests include command too prevention of human foodborne diseases; command too reduction of antimicrobial resistance inward beast too human bacteria; too prevention too command of zoonotic diseases.
Dr John Rowan Blogg, was awarded an AM for service to veterinary science, peculiarly inward the specialty of ophthalmology, too equally an writer too mentor.
Dr Blogg was Academic Associate Senior Lecturer, School of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne too a Fellow of the Australian Veterinary Association. Rowan was Honorary Veterinarian too Honorary Life Governor, Seeing Eye Dogs Australia, too President, International Society of Veterinary Ophthalmology. He established a specialist beast ophthalmology practise inward 1968 too has authored many publications.
Dr Garth Alexander McGilvray was awarded an AM for service to veterinary science, peculiarly through the evolution of national veterinary registration accreditation policy, too equally a veterinary practitioner.
His roles included President too Fellow of the Australian Veterinary Association, Councillor, World Veterinary Association; Chairman, Australasian Veterinary Boards Council; Chair, National Registration Working Party; National Industry Advisory Group for Veterinary Nursing; President, Veterinary Practitioners Board of NSW; Chair, Alumni Steering Group, Veterinary Science Foundation, University of Sydney; too founding Member too one-time President, North Coast Branch, Australian Veterinary Association.
Dr James Harrington (Jim) Whittem was awarded an OAM for service to veterinary scientific discipline through a arrive at of professional person roles, too to the community.
He is a Foundation Member of the Australian too New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists too a Fellow of the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA). Dr Whittem attained AVA’s virtually prestigious award, the Gilruth Prize inward 2011. He was too editorial Committee Member, Australian Veterinary Journal; President, NSW too NT Divisions, Australian Veterinary Association; too Convenor of the AVA annual conference, Program Committee. Dr Whittem was officer-in-charge of the CSIRO’s beast wellness interrogation laboratory inward Victoria; a fellow member of the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Veterinary Science too held diverse positions at the University of Sydney. His autobiography was published inward 2008.
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