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David E. Swayne

David E. Swayne PhD

Infectious Disease
Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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David was born in Yellville, Arkansas (USA). He attended the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and the University of Missouri-Columbia where he received a BSc in Agriculture (1980) and DVM (1984), respectively. He dual-enrolled in Graduate School during his freshman year, earning an MSc in Veterinary Pathology by end of summer 1984, studying avian pathology under Dr. Arthur Bickford and the late Dr. Darrell Trampel.

He furthered his graduate studies in Veterinary Pathology at the University of Georgia on Marek’s Disease under Dr. Oscar Fletcher finishing the Ph.D. in 1987. David is dual boarded by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists and the American College of Poultry Veterinarians (ACPV). From 1987-1994, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor on the faculty of The Ohio State University, Departments of Veterinary Pathobiology and Poultry Science, where he served as an Avian Pathologist. During his first year as a professor, Dr. Swayne began conducting collaborative research with Dr. Richard Slemons on avian influenza in wild waterfowl, which has become his passion and a lifetime career. David joined the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia where he has served as the Laboratory Director since 1994. SEPRL is the in-house USDA high biocontainment lab for research on poultry viral diseases including avian influenza and is an international reference laboratory for Avian Influenza and Collaborating Center for Research on Emerging Avian Diseases.
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