Education and/or Training

B.S.	1973	Pennsylvania State University	Biology
M.S.	1975	University of Michigan	Zoology
M.S.	1985	University of Minnesota	Statistics
Ph.D.	1991	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Biometry

Areas of Specialization and or Research Interests

Field and related laboratory investigations on epizootiology
Chronic wasting disease (CWD)
Maintenance and transmission of CWD
Quantitative/statistical ecology
Statistical inference
Natural history; sustainability issues

Current USGS Research and Projects

Study of CWD among populations of cervidae in the U.S

Professional Experience

2003 – Present	Research Biologist, National Wildlife Health Center - Madison, WI
1993 – 2003	Scientist, Dept. of Surgery, UW Medical School
1991 – 1993	Statistical Consultant, Academic Computing Center, UW

Professional Activities and/or Memberships

International Biometric Society
The Wildlife Society
Biometrics Working Group of the Wildlife Society

Honors and/or Awards

Best Contributed Paper	1991	Statistics and Statistical Graphics, SAS Users Group International
Invited Chair	1991	Analysis In Ecology Session, ENAR Biometrics Society
New Hot Paper		Phi Kappa Phi

Selected Publications

BLEHERT, D. S., K. S. JEFFERSON, D. M. HEISEY, M. D. Samuel, B. M. BERLOWSKI, and D. J. SHADDUCK. Using amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis to differentiate isolates of pasteurella multocida serotype 1 2008 Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42(2):209-225.

HEISEY, D. and B.R. Patterson. A review of methods to estimate cause-specific mortality in presence of competing risks. 2006 Journal of Wildlife Management 70(6):1544-1555.

Hansen, S., A. Choudhury, D. HEISEY, J.A. Ahumada, T.L. Hoffnagle, and R.A. COLE. Experimental infection of the endangered bonytail chub (Gila elegans) with the Asian fish tapeworm (Bothriocephalus acheilognathi): impacts on survival, growth, and condition. 2006 Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:1383-1394.

DUSEK, R.J., D. Richardson, K.F. EGSTAD, and D.M. HEISEY. Evaluating red-cockaded woodpeckers for exposure to West Nile Virus and blood parasites. 2006 Southeastern Naturalist 5(3):561-565.

HEISEY, D.M., D.O. Joly, and F. Messier. The fitting of general force-of-infection models to wildlife disease prevalence data. 2006 Ecology 87(9):2356-2365.