Speaker Information

Johan Gabrielsson, Ph.D.
Professor
Swedish University of Agricultural Services

Dr. Gabrielsson is a Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Until recently, he served as Senior Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal. His responsibilities include pre-clinical PK/PD projects in the GI & CV, CNSP, Oncology and Infection areas as well as biological data analysis. He is author of the text books 'Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Data Analysis: Concepts and Applications' 5th ed. (2016)and 'Quantitative Pharmacology: An introduction to integrative PKPD analysis' (2012). He is academically affiliated with Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. He has published extensively in the field of pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling and reasoning and run courses in the area of biological data analysis (>6000participants) since 1984.

Jim Riviere, DVM, PhD, DSc
Kansas Bioscience Eminent Scholar
University Distinguished Professor
Kansas State University

An internationally known expert in pharmacology, Jim Riviere joined Kansas State University in August 2013 as the university's first member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and serves on its Food and Nutrition Board. At K-State, Riviere is a university distinguished professor, Kansas Bioscience eminent scholar and holds the MacDonald chair of veterinary medicine. He also is director of the university's new Institute of Computational Comparative Medicine. Riviere came to Kansas State University from North Carolina State University, where he was the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and the director of the Center for Chemical Toxicology Research and Pharmacokinetics. His work looks at risk assessment of chemical mixtures, absorption of drugs and chemicals across skin, and the food safety and pharmacokinetics of tissue residues in food producing animals. Riviere holds six patents, has authored/edited 11 books and 535 scholarly publications in pharmacokinetics, toxicology and food safety, and received more than $20 million as principal investigator on extramural research grants. He has mentored dozens of award-winning graduate students.

Ronette Gehring, BVSc, MMedVet (Pharm), MRCVS, DACVCP
Associate Professor
Clinical Pharmacology
Kansas State University

Dr. Gehring is the regional director (Mid-West) of the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank, a risk-management program that provides science-based advice to help mitigate unsafe chemical residues in products derived from food animals. She is also currently serving as the President of the American Academy of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Her research interest lies with computer-based modeling as a quantitative framework that integrates and explains pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data based on current scientific understanding in veterinary and comparative pharmacology. The objective is to develop models as tools to identify and design safe and effective treatments for different disease conditions in a wide variety of animal species.