Our Extension goal is to bring the benefits of veterinary medicine to society by promoting animal welfare and public health through the on-going education of veterinarians and the dissemination of animal health production, food safety and animal welfare information to veterinarians, livestock producers, consumers, and related clientele.

Our strength is bringing people together to reach solutions. We work closely with commodity organizations, professional associations, and governmental regulatory agencies. We cooperate with the Iowa Veterinary Medical Association in the development and delivery of continuing education and other programs.

Our major activities include: practitioner support on problem cases, educational programs for livestock and poultry producers and animal owners, specific livestock and poultry educational programs (in cooperation with other faculty), formal continuing educational programs for veterinarians, and special training sessions in response to animal health issues as they arise.
 

Veterinary Medicine Extension is a section of the Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine (VDPAM) at Iowa State University. This section currently has four faculty members with species-specific expertise.

	James McKean University Professor Swine, Zoonotic Diseases, Food Safety, Disease Control and Eradication, Animal  Traceability, Disease  Surveillance Swine Extension Website  x2mckean@iastate.edu			Dr. Darrell W. Trampel Professor, Extension Veterinarian and Poultry Diagnostician Diseases of Chickens, Turkeys, Gamebirds, Surveillance for Avian Influenza Poultry Extension Website dtrampel@iastate.edu Phone: (515) 294-3837 Fax: (515) 294-1401
	Grant Dewell Assistant Professor Beef Production Medicine, Extension, Epidemiology, Economics, Food Safety Beef Extension Website Faculty Profile gdewell@iastate.edu Phone: 515-294-2822			Jan Shearer Professor Dairy Prduction Medicine, Lameness, Animal Welfare Dairy Extension Website jks@iastate.edu Phone:  515-294-3731

Outreach Academy for Veterinary Medicine and Rural Community Development

...and justice for all
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Many materials can be made available in alternative formats for ADA clients. To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 4th and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call 202-720-5964.

Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Stanley R. Johnson, director. Cooperative Extension Service, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa