September 16, 2024
Dr. Pat Gorden, professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine and director of food supply veterinary medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), has been named the recipient of the 2024 Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence at CVM.
A faculty member at Iowa State since 2007, Gorden has documented success in competitive grantsmanship securing nearly $3.8 million in funding as a principal investigator from a mix of industry, biopharmaceutical, state, and federal sources. He has also served as a co-investigator on projects totaling over $12 million in funded grants.
His research has ranged from improving antibiotic stewardship in dairy cows and goats to assure food safety and milk quality to the development of drugs for analytical methods to detect and quantify tulathromycin in caprine liver.
This past year, Gorden has been active in research focusing on the high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak in dairy cattle throughout the United States. He recently received a USDA grant for a variety of projects that will look to understand disease dynamics of this acute outbreak; to investigate the economics of the outbreak in dairy herds; monitoring disease incidence in cattle that were pregnant during the outbreak; and a longitudinal study that will monitor cattle in herds infected by HPAI.
Gorden is the author of 59 peer-reviewed manuscripts on a variety of topics and is frequently invited to speak at international, national and regional scientific and producer meetings.
