• Iowa is #1 (US) in pork, egg, corn & soybean production. Also top 10 in sheep, beef, turkey, and milk production.
• Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine (VDPAM) department, with a budget of approximately $28 million, and its 53 faculty and 137 staff are committed to supporting sustainable food animal agriculture
• VDPAM research programs include ~$19.5 million of funded grants
  • Infectious diseases, theriogenology, toxicology, welfare, diagnostics, public health
• Teamwork with USDA, industry partners, commodity groups, and associations…
• The ISU Vet Diagnostic Lab (VDL) is USA #1 in case numbers & revenues
  • VDL faculty are leaders in applied research (recent examples, 1stto detect & develop diagnostic tools for PEDv, pioneer oral fluids testing)
• The most comprehensive food animal curriculum of all 30 US CVMs
  • 76 VDPAM courses, emphasizing teaching in the most progressive livestock systems
  • Over 50% of ISU students track mixed or food animal medicine
  • Home of “Diseases of Swine” book, Biosecurity assessment systems, Swine Medicine Education Center (SMEC), Center for Food Security and Public Health.
• You…. come and join us, be part of this story!

VDPAM offers graduate programs on the Certificate, Masters, and Ph.D. levels:

• Veterinary Population Medicine
  • Graduate Certificate Degree (15 online credits)
  • Non-thesis Masters Degree (36 credits)
  • Thesis Masters Degree (30 credits)
• Population Sciences in Animal Health
  • • Ph.D. Degree (72 credits)