Invited Speaker

Dr. Hamond is an Assistant Research Professor in the Wunder laboratory. She is also a Collaborating Researcher in the Bacterial Zoonoses Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Brazil. During the past seventeen years, her studies and professional experience have focused on animal leptospirosis, working on its clinical aspects, and with high dedication to performing research in the laboratory and she established several key diagnostic assays in her career. While working on her PhD, she had the opportunity to perform an internship at the Biology of Spirochetes Unit at the Institute Pasteur (Paris, France), and work as a postdoctoral researcher at Federal Fluminense University (Brazil), Yale University (United States), National Institute of Agricultural Research and Institute Pasteur (Uruguay), and the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL), USDA (United States). Dr. Hamond’s research projects are aimed at identifying reservoirs and determine the etiology of Leptospira by culture and molecular approaches. Her work improves the scientific understanding about the etiology and epidemiology of leptospirosis, while providing local Leptospira isolates to increase the efficacy of serodiagnosis, vaccine formulation, and pathogenesis studies of leptospirosis. Dr. Hamond’s has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research articles related to microbiology and molecular biology of leptospirosis. She received the 2019 Early Career Research award from the International Leptospirosis Society and in 2022 was named Honorary Diplomate of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS), and in 2024 elected Executive Member of International Society of Leptospirosis (ILS).

Dr. Angelo Reynolds Born the oldest of three siblings, Angelo Reynolds was raised by a single mom in the poor housing projects of Portsmouth, Virginia. Abandoned by his father at age 3, Angelo battled the most tumultuous years of growing up without and becoming a man without the help of his father and faced the many obstacles and challenges placed upon him and his family. After years of determination, Angelo is currently helping to transform lives through his speeches and books helping those whoneed life transformations, both in their personal and professional lives.Dr. Reynolds believes that “transformation begins and ends with self.” Transformations as he sees it involve the continuous transitioning of self from one place to another. Dr. Reynolds also believes the universal principles of transformations occur in our personal and professional lives. He believes and practices the universal principle of transformations as Spiritual, Health, Career, Education, and Relationships. These are formidable principles that can be the defining catalysts for your future. Dr. Reynolds believes his own transformations began as early as childhood.