Roger Breeze

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Roger G.Breeze | honorific_suffix = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date |1946|10|10}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age |2016|06|14|1946|10|10}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = Staten Island, New York<ref name="legacy" /> | resting_place_coordinates =  | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Respiratory diseases of animals, biological weapons defense | workplaces = Plum Island Animal Disease Center | education = Manchester Grammar School, England | alma_mater = University of Glasgow | thesis_title = Fog fever and acute respiratory syndromes of cattle | thesis_url = https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/73951 | thesis_year = 1973 | doctoral_advisor = H.M. Pirie | known_for = | awards = }} '''Roger Gerrard Breeze''' (10 October 1946 – 14 June 2016) was an English veterinary scientist who was an expert on bio-terrorism, and a critic of mass culling to combat foot and mouth disease in animals.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/professor-roger-breeze-j032gf7df |title=Professor Roger Breeze |work=The Times |access-date=31 May 2021 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="legacy">{{cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=roger-gerrard-breeze&pid=180345805 |title=Roger Gerrard Breeze's obituary on The Washington Post |work=Legacy.com |accessdate=31 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/09/29/roger-breeze-expert-in-animal-diseases--obituary/|title=Roger Breeze, expert in animal diseases – obituary|work=The Telegraph |date=29 September 2016|accessdate=10 November 2016 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Breeze graduated from Manchester Grammar School then went to the University of Glasgow (1964–1973), where he received his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery and a PhD in Veterinary Pathology. He remained at the university as a lecturer from 1968 until 1977.{{cn|date=December 2025}} He subsequently moved to Washington State University, where he was professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Pathology from 1977 to 1987, then deputy director at the University of Washington Technology Center from 1984 to 1987.{{cn|date=December 2025}}

Breeze moved into the service of the US federal government in 1987, becoming director of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center which was part of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 1995, he became Area Director of the ARS, and then in 1998, Associate Administrator.<ref name="JAVMA">{{cite journal |title=JAVMA News {{!}} Obituaries: AVMA member AVMA honor roll |journal=Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association |date=2016-10-15 |volume=249 |issue=8 |pages=836–875 |doi=10.2460/javma.249.8.836 |url=https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2016-10-15/obituaries |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In 1988, for his work on biodefence at Plum Island, Breeze received the Distinguished Executive Award from President Clinton.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease: Workshop Summary |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54168/ |chapter=Forum Member Biographies |date=2007 |publisher=National Academies Press |isbn=9780309107693}}</ref> This award is given to members of the Senior Executive Service to reward exemplary service.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bur |first1=Jessie |title=Presidential awards return after a pandemic pause |url=https://www.federaltimes.com/management/leadership/2021/03/04/presidential-awards-return-after-a-pandemic-pause/ |access-date=31 May 2021 |work=Federal Times |date=2021-03-04}}</ref>

From 2004 to 2015, Breeze was CEO, owner and president of Centaur Science Group. From 2011, Breeze was Bio-Security Deputy Program Director at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

==Selected works== * {{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Breeze |first=Roger Gerrard |title=Fog fever and acute respiratory syndromes of cattle |date=1973 |publisher=University of Glasgow |url=https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/73951 |access-date=31 May 2021 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Breeze |first1=R.G. |last2=Pirie |first2=H.M. |last3=Selman |first3=I.E. |last4=Wiseman |first4=A. |title=Fog fever: Provocation tests with ''Dictyocaulus viviparus'' |journal=Journal of Comparative Pathology |date=October 1974 |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=577–588 |doi=10.1016/0021-9975(74)90049-8 |pmid=4282616}} * {{cite journal |last1=Breeze |first1=RG |last2=Pirie |first2=HM |last3=Selman |first3=IE |last4=Wiseman |first4=A |title=Fog fever in cattle: cytology of the hyperplastic alveolar epithelium |journal=Journal of Comparative Pathology |date=January 1975 |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=147–56 |doi=10.1016/0021-9975(75)90093-6 |pmid=165224}} * {{cite journal |last1=Breeze |first1=RG |last2=Carlson |first2=JR |title=Chemical-induced lung injury in domestic animals. |journal=Advances in Veterinary Science and Comparative Medicine |date=1982 |volume=26 |pages=201–31 |pmid=6758539}} * {{cite journal |last1=Breeze |first1=RG |title=Technology, public policy and control of transboundary livestock diseases in our lifetimes. |journal=Revue Scientifique et Technique |date=April 2006 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=271–92 |doi=10.20506/rst.25.1.1666 |pmid=16796054}}

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==Further reading== * {{cite journal |last1=Paragas |first1=J |last2=Dudley |first2=J |last3=Karesh |first3=W |last4=Leighton |first4=T |last5=Rudolph |first5=A |title=Roger Gerrard Breeze, 1946-2016. |journal=Health Security |date=July 2016 |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=203–4 |doi=10.1089/hs.2016.0061 |pmid=27442909}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Breeze, Roger}} Category:1946 births Category:2016 deaths Category:People from Heywood, Greater Manchester Category:British veterinary scientists Category:British veterinarians Category:Alumni of the University of Glasgow Category:People educated at Manchester Grammar School Category:Washington State University faculty Category:Academics of the University of Glasgow Category:British expatriate academics in the United States

Roger Breeze

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