Fateful Meeting

Dr. Marisa Rotolo (’14)

Talk about being in the right place at the right time. The time was Marisa Rotolo’s first year in veterinary school at Iowa State. The place was a friend’s office in the college’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. It was there that fate intervened in Rotolo’s future career as a swine veterinarian. Today, Dr. Rotolo is the director of swine health and the National Pork Board. She provides oversight of the board’s Swine Disease Research Taskforce, leading the efforts in biosecurity, traceability and surveillance on behalf of 60,000 U.S. pork producers.