Larry Glickman has an MPH and DrPH degree from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health and a VMD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Larry is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and Head of the Section of Clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Comparative Pathobiology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN where he teaches in both the veterinary and graduate programs in epidemiology. He has published >250 peer-reviewed papers and authored a monograph for the National Academy of Sciences titled Animals as Sentinels of Environment Health Hazards. With a 1.2 million dollar grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he and his colleagues at Purdue University along with Banfield the Pet Hospital developed the National Companion Animal Surveillance Program. Dr. Glickman also serves as Director of Clinical Research for DataSavant which is the informatics group of Banfield the Pet Hospital in Portland, OR.

Nita Glickman has an MPH degree from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health, an MS degree in Computer Science from Villanova, University, and a PhD degree in Educational Technology from Purdue University. Nita helps coordinate clinical research in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Purdue and has participated in numerous clinical trials of chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer in pet dogs and cats. She is currently the data base analyst and SAS programmer for the National Companion Animal Surveillance Program at Purdue University and teaches in the Clinical Trials and Research Methods courses in the PhD program in Epidemiology.