Dr. Olaf Berke

 

Email: oberke@uoguelph.ca

Office: 2505B - Stewart Building
Ext: 58924
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Profile

I am a statistical epidemiologist working in the area of veterinary epidemiology. In the Department of Population Medicine I am leading the Statistical Consulting Group. I am adjunct faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Guelph, and Privatdozent at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, Germany.

Since 2009 I am an editorial board member of Preventive Veterinary Medicine.

Education

1993, Diploma or MSc in Statistics with minor in Sociology, University of Dortmund, Germany

1998, Doctorate or PhD in Statistics, University of Dortmund, Germany

Research

My principal research interests are geographic epidemiology and veterinary public health surveillance as well as companion animal cancer registration

Teaching

• POPM 6290 - Statistics for the Health Sciences (winter)
• POPM 6950 - Geographical Epidemiology (summer - on demand)
• POPM 6520 - Introduction to Epidemiological and Statistical Methods, co-instructor

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Professional Experience & Honours

• 2010 Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph
• 2010- Graduate Coordinator (exams) Department of Population Medicine
• 2009 Editorial Board Member of Preventive Veterinary Medicine
• 2009 Associate Professor of Statistical Epidemiology
• 2007-2010 Senator, University of Guelph
• 2006 Tenured, University of Guelph
• 2005 Habilitation, Venia legendi for Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
• 2003 Assistant Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph
• 2001 Gustav-Adolf-Lienert-Preis, German Region of the International Biometric Society
• 1999-2007 Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), Department of Biometry, Epidemiology and Information Processing, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
• 1998 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Department of Statistics, University of Dortmund
• 1993 MSc (Diploma) in Statistics, University of Dortmund, Germany

Selected Publications

• Berke, O. and Waller L. (2010) On the effect of diagnostic misclassification bias on the observed spatial pattern in regional count data - a case study using West Nile virus mortality data from Ontario, 2005. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 1:117-121.
• Berke, O., Romig, T., von Keyserlingk, M. (2008) Emergence of Echinococcus multilocularis among red foxes in northern Germany, 1991-2005. Veterinary Parasitology 155: 319-322.
• Berke, O. (2004). Exploratory disease mapping: kriging the spatial risk function from regional count data. International Journal of Health Geographics 3:18.
• Berke, O. and große Beilage, E. (2003). Spatial relative risk mapping of pseudorabies-seropositive pig herds in an animal-dense region. Journal of Veterinary Medicine B 50:322-325.
• Berke, O. (2001). Modified median polish kriging and its application to the Wolfcamp-Aquifer data. Environmetrics 12: 731-748.
• Berke, O. (1998). On spatiotemporal prediction for online monitoring data. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 27: 2343-2369.