Tuesday,
9 December, 2008
08 h 00 Registration and distribution of documents
09 h 00 Opening Session
- Dr. Filiberto Frago, National Director of Animal Health
and OIE Permanent Delegate
- Dr. Luis O. Barcos, OIE Regional Representative for the
Americas
- Dr. Gideon Bruckner, OIE Deputy Director General and Head
of the OIE Scientific and Technical Department
- Mr. Guillermo Salazar, Honourable Minister for Agricultural
Development of Panama
09 h 45 - Objectives and work methodology
(Dr. Luis Barcos, OIE Regional Representative for the Americas)
10 h 00 - Break – Group Photograph
10 h 30 - OIE Laboratory
Standards, Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial
Animals and Manual of Diagnostic Tests for Aquatic Animals
and related texts, content, future work and adoption procedure.
(Dr. Steven Edwards, President of the Biological Standards
Commission & Director of Laboratory Services Veterinary
Laboratory Agency (VLA)United Kingdom – Dr. Eva-Maria
Bernoth, Senior Principal Research Scientist Department of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia )
11 h 15 - Discussion
11 h 30 - OIE Reference Laboratories in the Americas. Activities
to support National Laboratories
(Dr. Beverly Schmidt, Diagnostic Virology Laboratory, USA)
12 h 00 Discussion
12 h 30 Lunch
14 h 00 - OIE procedure for twinning
(Dr. Gideon Bruckner, OIE Deputy Director General and Head
of the OIE Scientific and Technical Department)
14 h 30 Discussion
15 h 00 -Diagnostic laboratories, information management
and its application to epidemiology
(Dr. Cristobal Zepeda Zein, Coordinator of International
Activities, Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health, OIE
Collaborating Center for Animal Disease Surveillance Systems
and Risk Analysis, USDA-APHIS-VS-CEAH
15 h 30 Discussion
16 h 00 - Break
16 h 30 - Air transport of risk materials,
biosecurity, procedures from sampling to shipment
(Dr. James Pearson,Private consultant)
17 h 00 - Coordination of the network
of National Reference Laboratories, experiences in Europe
(Dr. Sandra Blome, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute -GREIFSWALD-INSEL
RIEMS)
17 h 30 Discussion
18 h 00 Experiences in building networks of National Laboratories,
private-sector participation
(Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Toledo, General Coordinator of the Official
Laboratory, SENASA –Argentina)
18 .30 Discussion
19.00 End of day’s sessions
Wednesday 10 December, 2008
09 h 00 -Activities
of international and regional organisations in support of
National Laboratories, FAO: “Cooperation alternatives
to improve the efficiency of national veterinary diagnostic
laboratories in Latin America and the Caribbean” (Dr.
Carlos Arellano-Sota, Production and Animal Health Regional
Officer, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean)
(20 minutes)
PAHO, USDA-APHIS, IICA, OIRSA
10 h 30 Discussion
11 h 00 Break
11 h 30 - The importance of National Laboratories in controlling
the production chain. ‘From farm to fork’. The
three sisters (OIE-CODEX-IPPC)
(Dr. Willem Dropper, OIE Project Officer)
12 h 00 Discussion
12 h 30 - Lunch
14 h 00 - Presentation of the results from
analysing the questionnaire
(Dr. Gideon Bruckner, OIE Deputy Director General and Head
of the OIE Scientific and Technical Department)
14 h 45 Discussion
15 h 00 - Working groups
xxxxxxx1.- Network of National
Laboratories of the Veterinary Services of the Americas.
xxxxxxxCoordinator: Dr.
Gideon Bruckner (OIE Deputy Director General and
Head of the OIE Scientific and Technical Department)
xxxxxxx2.-Training
xxxxxxxCoordinator:Dr.
Andres Schnoller (Coordinator of the OIE Collaborator
Center CEBASEV)
xxxxxxx3.-Network
of Laboratories for Aquatic Animal Diseases
xxxxxxxCoordinator: Dr.
Eva Maria Bernoth (Senior Principal Research Scientist
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia)
18 h 00 End of Day Session
Thursday, 11 December, 2008
09 h 00 Discussion and Recommendations
10 h 30 Break
11 h 00 Discussion and
Recommendations
12 h 00 Closing session
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