History of the Front Covers of Avian Diseases

The journal Avian Diseases was started in 1957 with Dr. P.P. Levine as editor. A detailed history of the journal can be found in the history paper by Dr. Bruce W. Calnek (Calnek, Bruce W.  Avian Diseases: The Creation and Evolution of P. Philip Levine's Enduring GiftAvian Dis. 59:1-6. 2015). Soon after Dr. Jagdev Sharma became Editor of Avian Diseases in 2004, he started to recognize distinguished poultry disease researchers on the cover of Avian Diseases with a short description of the person on the inside of the cover. The first cover was dedicated to Dr. P.P. Levine (volume 49, issue 1, 2005). Initially only deceased researchers were featured, but this was changed in 2023 to include retired researchers. The covers are presented in the section “Avian Diseases covers” with a link to (auto)biographies if available. The History of Avian Medicine Committee with the Editor-in-Chief of Avian Diseases are responsible for the selection of the covers and welcome suggestions from the membership.


Table of Contents

 

 

Volume 68, 2024

Dr. Yehia Mohamed (Mo) Saif

Autobiography

Dr. Richard L. (Dick) Witter

Autobiography

Dr. Stanley H. Kleven

 

Volume 67, 2023

Dr. Egon Vielitz

Dr. Jane K.A. Cook

Autobiography

Dr. Richard Jefferson Julian

Dr. Bruce Wixson Calnek

Autobiography


Volume 66, 2022

Dr. Leo Rettger

Dr. Eva Elizabeth Jones

Dr. Robert James Eckroade

Dr. Peter Martin Biggs

Autobiography


Volume 65, 2021

Dr. Donald Victor Zander

Dr. Charles Frederick Helmboldt

Dr. Kakambi Nagaraja

Dr. Erhard Franz Kaleta


Volume 64, 2020

Dr. Ben Roy Burmester

Biography

Dr. Charles Franklin Hall 

Autobiography

Dr. Craigmyle Riddell 

Dr. Walter Franklin Hughes 

Autobiography


Volume 63, 2019

Drs. Julius and Catherine Fabricant 

Autobiography

 

Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Avian Influenza

Dr. Jozsef Marek

Dr. Frank Jordan 

Dr. Reed Rumsey

Biography

 

Volume 62, 2018

Dr. Kenneth H. Eskelund

Autobiography

Dr. Lucy F. Lee 

Biography

Dr. John Brian McFerran

Dr. Irmgard Maria Gylstorff 


Volume 61, 2017

Dr. Roland W. Winterfield

Small Farm Chicks 

Chicken Scratch

Dr. Hiram N. Lasher 

Biography


Volume 60, 2016

Cock of the Walk

Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium of Avian Influenza

Dr. Trevor Bagust

Highly Pathogenic Eurasian H5N8 Avian Influenza Outbreaks in Two Commercial Poultry Flocks in California 

Dr. Bart Helmich Rispens

 

Volume 59, 2015

Dr. William R. Hinshaw 

Dr. Raymond A. Bankowski

Dr. Melvin S. Hofstad

Dr. Robert P. Hanson

Volume 58, 2014

The Turkeys

Dr. John Lancaster 

Hen and Chicks 

Dr. Stephen Hitchner 

Autobiography


Volume 57, 2013

Chook, Chook, Chook

 

Dr. Jagdev Sharma

Autobiography

Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Marek's Disease and Avian Herpesviruses

Dr. David P. Anderson 

Dr. Louis van der Heide

 

Volume 56, 2012

Typical Domestic African Fowl

Dr. Leland C. Grumbles

Biography

 

Family Discussion

 Dr. Harold L. Chute

Biography

Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Avian Influenza

 

Volume 55, 2011

Spring Symphony

Dr. Morris S. Cover

Dr. Fred Beaudette

Breedlove 


Volume 54, 2010

Drs. H. E. Biester and L. H. Schwarte

Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Avian Influenza 

Detection of Influenza A Viruses in Eggs Laid by Infected Turkeys

Dr. Glenn Snoeyenbos 

Barnyard Beauty

 

Volume 53, 2009

 

Attitude

 The Diagnosis of Very Virulent Infectious Bursal Disease in California Pullets

 

Dr. Benjamin Pomeroy

Biography

 

Barnyard Buddies


Volume 52, 2008

 

Dr. Henry Van Roekel

 

Dr. Robert F. Gordon

Biography

 

Dr. Arnold S. "Rosy" Rosenwald

Autobiography

 

Detection of Infectious Bursal Disease Virus Isolates with Unknown Antigenic Properties by Reverse Genetics


Volume 51, 2007

 

Transmissible Viral Proventriculitis in Chickens

 

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Avian Influenza

 

Chris Jones

 

Chris Jones

Phylogenetic Tree

 

Volume 50, 2006

 

Spring Chicken

 

Microspheres

 

Dr. Jerry Raymond Beach

 

Dr. Hu Hsiang-pih

Biography


Volume 49, 2005

 

Dr. P.P. Levine

Biography

 

Color Plate

Dr. John P. Delaplane

 

Dr. Erwin L. Jungherr

Biography