Bruno ChomelProfessor Research Epidemiology, Microbiology, Infectious Disease (Bovine, Companion Animal, Laboratory Animal, Primate, Ruminant, Wildlife) Zoonoses and public health; Epidemiology of zoonoses, foodborne zoonoses; Wildlife epidemiology and tropical medicine. Teaching Epidemiology, zoonoses and veterinary public health Supervises MPVM student research projects Service Plaque surveillance in wildlife and domestic animals for the State of California Zoonoses specialist to Calif. Dept. of Health Services Guest speaker to numerous organizations nationally and internationally Rabies epidemiology expert. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Veterinary Research, 2002-present. Dr. Bruno Chomel comes to us from France where he received his D.V.M. from Lyon's Veterinary School, Lyon, France, in 1978. He earned two masters degrees in Microbiology from Pasteur Institute in Paris and Immunology from the University Cl. Bernard-Lyon I in Lyon, in 1981 and 1982, respectively. Dr. Chomel received his Ph.D. (3rd cycle doctorate) in 1984 from the University Cl. Bernard-Lyon I, in Lyon and his Research Director's degree, also from the University of Cl. Bernard-Lyon I, in 1989. Dr. Chomel elected to follow a career in academic veterinary medicine at UC Davis because of its reputation as "one of the best schools of Veterinary Medicine in the USA and it has an excellent program in "epidemiology." Dr. Chomel has served as the director of the Master in Presentive Veterinary Medicine (MPVM) program and his interest in the Graduate Group in Epidemiology coincides with his major academic interest: the epidemiology of the zoonoses. |
