College of Veterinary Medicine

Education:

BVSc., University of Bristol, School of Veterinary Science, 1967
Ph.D., University of Bristol, School of Veterinary Science, 1970
Fellowship by Examination, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 1976

Honors and Awards:

2005 Wooldridge Memorial Medal awarded by the British Veterinary Association

Teaching/Research/Service Interests:

Teaching:
My teaching activities range from teaching DVM students, virology, epidemiology, emerging diseases, and career opportunities to developing web based instruction on the recognition of foreign animal diseases for veterinarians involved with the State Agricultural Response Team network. I teach the Transboundary Disease distance learning course for the University of Edinburgh’s MSc in International Animal Health. I am closely involved in the development of the joint DVM/MPH degree course at the University of Florida.

Research:
My career has focused on the epidemiology and control of emerging viral diseases and their relationship to human and wildlife populations. Working as one of a team, recent research has focused on the evaluation of a recombinant vaccine to protect horses from West Nile infections and the discovery of canine influenza. Previous research investigated the epidemiology of African swine fever, pseudorabies, and arthropod transmitted viral diseases, such as bluetongue and equine encephalitis.

Service:
I provide policy advice on emerging viral diseases to government departments and companies within the USA and around the world. From 1995 until 1999, I held the position of Director of the University of Florida's International Center.

Selected Publications:

Murphy, F.A., Gibbs, E.P.J., Horzinek, M., and Studdert, M.J. "Veterinary Virology." 3rd Edition, 1999. Academic Press, Orlando.

“The domestic animal/wildlife interface: issues for disease control, conservation, sustainable food production and emerging diseases”. Eds Gibbs, E.P.J. and Bokma, B.H. Vol 969. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 2003

Thurmond, M.C., Gibbs, E.P.J., Brown, C.C., Wagner, G.C. , Wilson, T.M., and Lautner, E. (2003) Educational preparedness of veterinarians for foreign animal diseases. J Am. Vet. Med. Ass 222, 1352-1357.

Gibbs, E.P.J. (2003) The foot-and-mouth disease epidemic of 2001 in the UK: implications for the USA and the “war on terror”. J Vet. Med. Educ. 30, 121-132

Crawford P.C., Dubovi E.J., Castleman W.L., Stephenson I., Gibbs E.P., Chen L, Smith C, Hill R.C., Ferro P, Pompey J, Bright R.A., Medina M.J., Johnson C.M., Olsen C.W., Cox N.J., Klimov A.I., Katz J.M., Donis R.O. (2005) Transmission of equine influenza virus to dogs. Science. 310, 482-5

Gibbs, E.P.J. (2005) Emerging zoonotic epidemics in the interconnected global community. Vet Rec. 157, 673-9.

Gibbs, E.P.J. (2005) Chapters in Merck Veterinary Manual 9th Edition on:, Swinepox, Cowpox, Sheep and Goat Pox, Pseudocowpox, Lumpyskin Disease. pp 693-698

Gibbs, E.P.J. (2005) Bovine herpes virus 2 infections. Infectious Diseases of Livestock with Special Reference to South Africa. Eds J A W Coetzer and R C Tustin , Oxford University Press. Vol 2 pp 887-894

Gibbs, E.P.J. (2005) Equine encephalitides caused by Alphaviruses. Infectious Diseases of Livestock with Special Reference to South Africa. Eds J A W Coetzer and R C Tustin, Oxford University Press Vol 2 pp 1014- 1022

Gibbs, E.P.J. and Long, M. (2006) Equine Alphaviruses. In Infectious Diseases of Horses. Eds Sellon, D. and Long, M. Elsevier Press Ch 20, pp 191-197.