Dr. Chris Sievers (’16)
Each summer, the College of Veterinary Medicine offers a series of veterinary internships in the swine, beef and poultry industries giving students a chance to spend the summer collaborating with leading veterinarians in the specific field on any number of areas. For the swine internship, students are immersed daily in modern swine production and health. That immersion confirmed to Dr. Chris Sievers that swine medicine was the field he wanted to practice in. “After my SVIP internship, I knew becoming a swine veterinarian was for me,” Sievers said. “I got to see an industry that was very data driven, close knit and had excellent people to work with.” Today, Sievers is part of Swine Vet Center (SVC), a 17-doctor practice in Iowa and Minnesota. There he is a respected contributor to swine medicine who is known to be adept at recognizing and responding rapidly to changes in the Midwest and U.S. livestock production.