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PhD Students

Victor Del Rio Vilas

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PhD students - Completed

Name

Thesis title
(years of enrolment and completion)

Supervision

Argaez-Rodriguez, Felipe
(Mexico)

Human-animal interaction in the context of spread of zoonotic infections in Yucatan, Mexico (deceased, did not finish)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Principal supervisor

Rolfe, Simon
(United Kingdom)

Toxoplasma infection in sheep populations (1998-2002)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Principal supervisor

Clements, Archie
(Australia)

Spatial methods for animal disease surveillance (2000-05)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Principal supervisor

Gallagher, Elisabeth
(United Kingdom)

Studies in quantitative risk assessment: badger-to-cattle transmission of Mycobacterium bovis  (2000-05)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Joint supervisor with Dr. Louise Kelly from VLA

Kuniaki, Suzuki
(Japan)

Constraints to smallholder dairy production in North Vietnam (2001-05)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Principal supervisor

Brodbelt, David
(United Kingdom)

The epidemiology of perioperative small animal fatalities (2002-6)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Joint supervisor with Dr. James Wood from AHT

Dyson, Philip
(United Kingdom)

Impact of training on skeletal injury in thoroughbred horses (2002-6)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Principal supervisor with Prof. Joanna Price
Tongue, Susan
(United Kingdom)
The epidemiology of scrapie in Great Britain (2002-7) Dirk Pfeiffer - Primary supervisor with Prof. John Wilesmith
Diesel, Gillian
(Zimbabwe)
Health and population dynamics of the dog population handled by a UK charity (2004-7) Dirk Pfeiffer - Primary supervisor with Dr. Dave Brodbelt

 PhD students - Current

Name

Thesis title
(year of enrolment)

Supervision

Abernethy, Darrell
(United Kingdom)

Epidemiological patterns of bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis in Northern Ireland (2002)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Primary supervisor

Del Rio Vilas, Victor
(Spain)

Methodologies to evaluate surveillance network performance. A model applied to the Scrapie Notification Database (SND) in GB (2003)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Primary supervisor with Dr. Javier Guitian and Prof. John Wilesmith

Ortiz-Pelaez, Angel
(Spain)

Development of farm-specific biosecurity risk management strategies for cattle herds and sheep flocks (2004)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Primary supervisor

Costard, Solenne
(France)

Factors influencing the epidemiology of Africa swine fever (2005)

Dirk Pfeiffer - Primary supervisor with Dr. Francois Roger

Dean, Rachel
(United Kingdom)
Incidence of, risk factors for, histological features of and protein expression patterns in injection site sarcomas in cats(2006) Dirk Pfeiffer - Joint supervisor with Dr. Vicki Adams from Animal Health Trust
Booth, Richard
(United Kingdom)
Bovine virus diarrhoea virus - A longitudinal farm study on biosecurity, health profile and costs benefit for control (2006) Dirk Pfeiffer - Co- supervisor with Joe Brownlie
Wright, Angela (UK) The assessment of animal welfare on British pig farms (2006) Dirk Pfeiffer - Co- supervisor with C. Wathes
El Tholth, Mahmoud (Egypt) Risk assessment and Johne’s disease (2006) Javier Guitian - Primary supervisor;
Dirk Pfeiffer - Co-supervisor
Hegazy, Yamen (Egypt) Brucellosis in the Middle East (2006) Javier Guitian - Primary supervisor;
Dirk Pfeiffer - Co-supervisor
Georgakis, Andreas  (Greece) Modelling of scrapie in Greece (2006) Javier Guitian - Primary supervisor;
Dirk Pfeiffer - Co-supervisor
Ely, Elizabeth (UK) Epidemiology of fracture and tendon injury in National Hunt racehorses in training (2006) Kristien Verheyen - Primary supervisor; Jo Price and James Wood - Co-supervisors
Marce, Clara (France) Epidemiology of Johne's disease (2007) -
Joint PhD degree between RVC and University of Rennes
Dirk Pfeiffer - Joint primary supervisor with Christine Fourichon from University of Nantes; Javier Guitian - Co-supervisor
Fournie, Guillaume (France) Avian influenza in East-Asia and poultry market systems (2007) Javier Guitian - Primary supervisor with Punam Mangtani from LSHTM and Azra Ghani from Imperial College
Reed, Suzanne (UK) Epidemiology of joint injuries in Thoroughbred racehorses (2007) Kristien Verheyen - Primary supervisor;
Jo Price - Co-supervisor
Tully, Lucinda (UK) Genetics of tendon injury in Thoroughbred racehorses(2007) Kristien Verheyen - Co- supervisor;
Jo Price - Primary supervisor

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