Advancing Canine Health

Tools and ProgramsAvailable to

AKC Parent Clubs

2010 AKC Parent Club ConferenceRaleigh, North Carolina

Eddie DziukChief Operating Officer

Orthopedic Foundation for AnimalsColumbia, Missouri

American Kennel Club

CanineHealth

ResourceCenter

www.akc.org

American Kennel Club

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American Kennel ClubCanine Health Foundation

The mission of the AKC Canine Health Foundation is to develop significant resources for basic & applied health programs with emphasis on canine genetics to improve the quality of life for dogs & their owners.

• AKC CHF, a 501(c)3, the largest foundation in the world to fund exclusively canine health studies

• More than $22M has been allocated to date funding over 500 studies to help dogs live longer, healthier lives

• AKC CHF provided impetus and $2M seed money for the initial canine genome mapping

• Donor Advised Funds – set up to restrict donations to a particular breed or disease

• AKC CHF and Purina sponsor biennial Canine Health Conference featuring renowned speakers on breakthrough canine health research and treatments

• Genome Barks – audio podcasts on canine health research, advances in veterinary healthcare, and breeding management

The Orthopedic FoundationFor AnimalsA 501c(3) Not For Profit Foundation

For over forty years…dedicated to improving the health and welfare of companion animals through a reduction in the incidence of inherited disease

OnlineBreed

SpecificHealth

Surveys

OnlineBreed

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OFA’s Parent Club“Champion of Health”Award Program

Awarded annually to dogs that have achieved significant accomplishments in the ring, field, as working dogs, or producers, AND that have a full complement of breed appropriate health screening

Owners receive an engraved silver medallion and a $100 donation in the dog’s honor to the breed’s DAF

Online Health Clinic Calendar

Raffle/Auction/Door Prize Donations

The Canine Health Information

Center (CHIC)

CHIC – The Canine Health Information Center

• Jointly sponsored by the AKC CHF and the OFA

• MISSION: To provide a source of health information for owners, breeders, and scientists, that will assist in breeding healthier dogs

• Initiated in 2001 as pilot program with 8 participating breeds, today over 130 breed parent clubs participate and over 60,000 dogs have met the individual breed requirements and been assigned CHIC numbers

CHIC

CHIC is about encouraging health testing and awareness

In short, CHIC…– Establishes a breed specific health screening

protocols– Collects health test results from multiple sources– Makes the results available in an online publicly

accessible database– Recognizes those dogs that have been tested in

accordance with a test protocol recommended by the breed’s Parent Club

CHIC DNA Repository

CHIC DNA Repository

• MISSION– The CHIC DNA Repository, co-sponsored

by the OFA and the AKC CHF, collects and stores canine DNA samples along with corresponding Genealogic and Phenotypic information to facilitate future research

CHIC DNA Repository

• OBJECTIVES– Facilitate more rapid research progress by

expediting the sample collection process– Provide researchers with optimized family groups

needed for research– Allow breeders to take advantage of future DNA

based disease tests as they become available– Foster a team environment between breeders and

the research community improving the likelihood of genetic discovery

CHIC DNA Repository• 10,000+ dogs• 150 breeds, 25+ breeds with 100+ samples• Examples of Sample Distribution To Date

– GR – Mast Cell Tumor (MIT/Harvard)– Cancer (Van Andel Research Institute)– BX, GS – Degenerative Myelopathy (U of MO)– PR – Hyperuricosuria (UC Davis)– IR – HOD (Clemson)– NF/GR/GSE – Hip Dysplasia (Cornell)– MF – Cystinuria (U of Pennsylvania)– SH – Cataracts (Animal Health Trust – UK)– Monorchid/Cryptorchid (Iowa State)

CHIC DNA Repository

• DNA Collection Clinics– OFA underwrites 50% of the DNA banking

fees for blood based DNA collection clinics at National Specialties

– OFA underwrites 100% of the DNA banking fees for dogs with significant genetic diseases

–More than 50 breeds have sponsored collection clinics

– Recognition of donors through bandanas, buttons, etc

Parent Club Health & Welfare Foundations

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• ASC requires CHIC numbers on sires/dams in order to futurity nominate

• DCAF contributes additional $ to the futurity winners if sire/dam have CHIC numbers

• Pharoah Hound Club requires completion of health survey to renew membership

• Proactive collections for targeted research efforts– DM Bladders Stones, DP Dilated Cardio

Myelopathy

CONTACTS

OFA

2300 E Nifong Blvd

Columbia, Missouri 65201

(573) 442-0418

Email: ofa@offa.org, Website: www.offa.org

AKC Canine Health Foundation

PO Box 900061

Raleigh, NC 27675-9061

(888) 682-9696

Email: chf@caninehealthfoundation.org, Website: www.akcchf.org