INVITED LECTURES and SEMINARS
1. "Epidemiology and genetic basis of ketosis in Finnish Ayrshire cattle" and "Propionate loading test for liver function during experimental liver necrosis in sheep", University of California, Davis, USA, March 27, 1984.
2. "Finnish Health data recording system and its utilities", College of Veterinary Medicine, Helsinki, Finland, May 15, 1986.
3. "Genetiska synpunkter på ketos". (Genetic aspects of ketosis). Stockholm, Sweden, Nordic Veterinary Congress, July 28 - August 1, 1986.
4. "Hälsokontrollens data som källa för epidemiologiska studier - ketos som exempel". (Health data recording system as a source for epidemiological studies - ketosis as an example). Stockholm, Sweden, The 15th Nordic Veterinary Congress, July 28 - August 1, 1986.
5. "An epidemiological and genetic study of registered diseases in Finnish Ayrshire cattle: Ketosis", NYSCVM, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, August 25, 1987.
6. "An introduction to preventive veterinary medicine", video presentation, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland, November 12, 1987.
7. "Genetic and epidemiological analyses of ketosis and reproductive disorders", Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, March 9, 1989.
8. "Study design and statistical methods", EWOS, Södertälje, Sweden, September 5 - 7, 1990.
9. "Basic statistical methods in veterinary epidemiology" and "Some advanced methods in veterinary epidemiology", invited lectures (6 hours), Nordic Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology, Suitia, Finland, September 12-14, 1991.
10. "Statistical concerns when preparing a proposal", Guthrie Healthcare Research Seminar, Sayre, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1992.
11. "Animal Hygiene for the 21st century", Swedish University of Agricultural Studies, Uppsala, Sweden, December 20, 1993.
12. "A paradigm shift from James Herriot to production and health", National Institute of Animal Science, Foulum, Denmark, November 3, 1994.
13. "Production medicine - myth or reality", College of Veterinary Medicine, Liege, Belgium, May 17, 1995.
14. F.C. Donders lecture "A paradigm shift from James Herriot to production and health", Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 3, 1996.
15. "Interrelationship between milk yield and disease in dairy cows", Cornell Nutrition Conference, Rochester, New York, October 24, 1996.
16. "Interrelationship between milk yield and disease in dairy cows", Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 29, 1996. This was a Cornell Nutrition Conference presentation (15).
17. F.C. Donders lecture, "Using time dependent covariates to study mastitis and culling". Co-authors: V. Ducrocq, J. A. Hertl, and S.W. Eicker. Dutch Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Wageningen, the Netherlands, December 11, 1996.
18. "Further studies on milk yield and disease in dairy cows", Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, June 9-11, 1997. The objective of this workshop was to present the latest research in Animal Science and Veterinary College to the visitors from Italy.
19. "Further studies on milk yield and disease in dairy cows", Minnesota Nutrition Conference, Bloomington, MN, September 23-24, 1997.
20. "Problem based learning - Cornell experience.", University of Helsinki, Finland, October 13, 1997.
21. "Interrelationship between milk yield and disease in dairy cows", Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, June 8, 1998. The workshop on nutriton and metabolic diseases. The participants from Argentina, Spain and Israel.
22. "Modeling the effect of a disease on culling: an illustration of the use of time-dependent covariates for survival analysis", Statistics Seminar series, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February 17, 1999.
23. "Are high yielding dairy cows more susceptible to disease: towards optimizing dairy herd health and management decisions", University of Ghent, Belgium, March 2, 1999. “Epidemiology of reproductive performance in dairy cows”, International Congress on Animal Reproduction, Stockholm, July 2-6, 2000.
24. “Epidemiology of reproductive performance in dairy cows”, Reproductive Physiology/Endocrinology Seminar series, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 18, 2000.
25. “Incidence and production losses of early post-partum diseases”, Transition cow conference” Pro-Dairy and Cornell Veterinary Medicine, Canandaigua, NY, November 16-17, 2001.