Curriculum Vitae

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee

Silvia Kreindel D.V.M., M.P.H.

United States Department of Agriculture
Animal Plant Inspection Services,
National Center for Import Export,
Regionalization and Evaluation Services,
4700 River Road, Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737
Phone: -------------------
e-mail: silvia.kreindel@aphis.usda.gov

Education

Master of Public Health-Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts Schools of Public
Doctor in Veterinary Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, College of Veterinary Medicine,

Professional Experience

United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS, Veterinary Services, National Center for Import Export Senior Staff Veterinarian	2005 to Present
United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Services Risk Analyst	2004 to 2005
Massachusetts Department of Agriculture Resources Veterinary Epidemiology	2003 to 2004
Harvard School of Public Health – Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Research Associate	1998 to 2002
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Immunizations Epidemiologist	1994 - 1998

Publications

Jara M, John B, Kreindel S, Wilk-Rivard E, DeMaria A Jr. Diagnostic evaluation for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Massachusetts, 1991-2001 Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Sep 15;41(6):829-33. Epub 2005 Aug 12

Cohen, J. T., Duggar, K., Gray, G. M. and Kreindel, S. (2001). Evaluation of the Potential for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in the United States: Report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Boston, MA, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. Available at: http://www.hcra.harvard.edu/BSE_analysis.html. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/hot_issues/bse/background/documents/mainreporttext.pdf

Cohen, J. T., Duggar, K., Gray, G. M. and Kreindel, S. (2003a). Evaluation of the Potential for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in the United States: Report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (revised October, 2003). Boston, MA, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. Available at: http://www.hcra.harvard.edu/peer_reviewed_analysis.html.

Jara M , John B , Kreindel S , Wilk-Rivard E , DeMaria A Jr. Diagnostic evaluation for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Massachusetts, 1991-2001. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Sep 15;41(6):829-33. Epub 2005 Aug 12. Gray G, Kreindel S, Ropeik D. Mad cow disease risk in the United States. Does perceived threat overshadow true likelihood of occurrence?

J. Cohen, G. Gray, S. Kreindel, Evaluating the Risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in the United States. Risk in Perspective: Volume 10 – Issue 2 – 2002.

Bowers, J. G. Kreindel S., Orloski, K. Happ, C. Hayes, E. Risk factors for Lyme Disease in Nantucket County, Massachusetts. American Journal of Epidemiology. 149(11) SUPPLEMENT:S78, June 1, 1999.

Kreindel SM. McGuill M. Rupprecht C. DeMaria A. Rabies postexposure prophylaxis: When is it appropriate? Infectious Disease in Clinical Practice 1998: 7: 274-279.

Kreindel SM . McGuill M. Meltzer M. Rupprecht C. DeMaria A Jr. The cost of rabies postexposure prophylaxis: one state's experience . Public Health Reports. 113(3):247-51, 1998 May-Jun.

McGuill MW. Kreindel SM. DeMaria A Jr. Rupprecht C. Knowledge and attitudes of residents in two areas of Massachusetts about rabies and an oral vaccination program in wildlife .Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 211(3):305-9, 1997 Aug 1.

Robbins AH. Borden MD. Windmiller BS. Niezgoda M. Marcus LC. O'Brien SM . Kreindel SM. McGuill MW. DeMaria A Jr. Rupprecht CE. Rowell S. Prevention of the spread of rabies to wildlife by oral vaccination of raccoons in Massachusetts. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 213(10):1407-12, 1998 Nov 15.

Kreindel SM . McGuill M. Meltzer M. Rupprecht C. DeMaria A. The cost of rabies postexposure prophylaxis: one state's experience. Public Health Reports. 113(3):247-51, 1998 May-Jun.

McGuill MW. Kreindel SM. DeMaria A. Rupprecht C . Knowledge and attitudes of residents in two areas of Massachusetts about rabies and an oral vaccination program in wildlife. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 211(3):305-9, 1997 Aug 1.

Kreindel S . Rosetti R. Goldberg R. Savageau J. Yarzebski J. Gore J. Russo A. Bigelow C . Health insurance coverage and outcome following acute myocardial infarction. A community-wide perspective .Archives of Internal Medicine. 157(7):758-62, 1997 Apr 14.

Kreindel S . Matyas B. McGuill M. Broadbent T. and DeMaria A.: Lyme Disease and other tick borne Diseases in Massachusetts, Journal of Spirochetes and Tick Borne Diseases 1996; 3, No 3-4: 147-150.

Book Chapter

Cohen, J. T., Duggar, K., Gray, G. M., Kreindel, S., Gubara, H., HabteMariam, T., Oryang, D. and Tameru, B. (2003b). A simulation model for evaluating the potential for spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to animals or to people. Prions and Mad Cow Disease . B. Nunnally and I. Krull. New York, Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Book Contributions

Microbial Food Safety in An animal Agriculture, edited by Mary Torrence (Iowa State Press) 2003

Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What’s Really Safe and What’s Really Dangerous in the World Around (Houghton Mifflin) 2003.

Selected Abstracts—Scientific and Professional Conferences

Joshua T. Cohen, Keith Duggar, George Gray, Silvia Kreindel, Tsegaye HabteMariam. David Oryang, Berhanu Tameru, Hatim Abdelrahman. Modeling the Potential for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Transmission in the United States. Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, December 2001
Joshua T. Cohen, Keith Duggar, George Gray, Silvia Kreindel. Modeling the Potential for Human Exposure to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Infectivity in the United States. Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, December 2001
Joshua T. Cohen, Keith Duggar, George Gray, Silvia Kreindel. Modeling Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in USA. Presented to the European Union Scientific Steering Committee on BSE , January, 2002
Joshua T. Cohen, Keith Duggar, George Gray, Silvia Kreindel. Evaluation of the risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in USA, presented to the Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee on Bovine Spongiform Encephaolopathy, January, 2002
S. Kreindel A. DeMaria, , E. Wilk Rivard and Y Tang: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Massachusetts: Emerging Diseases Conference, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia
Meltzer M. Kreindel S. Wallace B. McGuill M. Birkhead G., Maylahan C. Cohen B.: Measuring the willingness to pay for a public-funded rabies control program. VII Rabies in the Americas Conference, 1996, Atlanta, Georgia.
Kreindel, S . Swava, M. McGuill, A. DeMaria, and C. Rupprecht: Rabies in Massachusetts: Public Perception of the Risk. VIII Rabies in the Americas Conference, 1997, Kingston, Ontario.
S. Kreindel, M. McGuill, M. Meltzer, C. Rupprecht and A. DeMaria: Estimating Rabies Postexposure prophylaxis in Massachusetts. VII Rabies in the Americas Conference, 1996, Atlanta, Georgia.
M. Meltzer, S. Kreindel, B. Wallace, M. McGuill, G. Birkhead and C. Rupprecht: The Economics of using an Oral Vaccine to Prevent Raccoon Rabies, Meeting of the American Public Health Association, 1996, New York.
S. Kreindel, M. McGuill, A. DeMaria, A. Robins, S. Rowell, and C. Rupprecht: Postexposure prophylaxis in Massachusetts: a comparison between an area with enzootic rabies and terrestrial rabies free area. VI Rabies in the Americas Conference, 1995, Merida, Mexico.