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Brief Biography
Patrick began his work at Cornell in the Fall of 2006. He was born and raised in Florida and attended college at Emory University in Atlanta. After graduating, he worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Cambodia as a Luce Scholar planning livestock health interventions and implementing programs to test wild birds for highly pathogenic avian influenza. His current research is an extension of his interest in the epidemiology of emerging and zoonotic diseases. He is working with Dr. Yrjo Grohn to examine the relative roles of animal-animal transmission and environmental habitats in the propagation of E. coli O157:H7 in cattle feedlots, the putative reservoir of human infection. Patrick is currently developing mathematical models capable of teasing apart the dynamics of a bacterial pathogen with complex ecological interactions outside of the host organism
Education
BS, Biology/Environmental Studies- Emory University
Research Interests
I am currently working on elucidating the epidemiology of E. coli O157:H7. Specifically, I am examining the contribution of environmental and animal habitats to the propagation of the bacteria in cattle feedlots, the putative reservoir for human infection. I am developing novel mathematical models to address these questions and test intervention strategies at the population level.
Publications
Lanzas C, Brien S, Ivanek R, Lo Y, Chapagain PP, Ray K, Ayscue P, Warnick LD, Gröhn YT. 2008. The effect of heterogenous infectious period and contagiousness on the dynamics of Salmonella transmission in dairy cattle. Epidemiology and Infection 136:1; 1-15.
Lanzas, C., Warnick, L.D., Ivanek, R., Ayscue, P., Nydam, D.V., Grohn, Y.T., 2008, The risk and control of Salmonella outbreaks in dairy calves. Submitted to Veterinary Research
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