10 The Business of Canadian Hog Farming Better Pork | June 2024 DECKERT: RESEARCH OF VALUE Dr. Maria del Rocio Amezcua photo FOCUS ON SOW MORTALITY, HEALTH IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, & ANTIMICROBIAL USE DECKERT JOINS SWINE FACULTY AT OVC By LILIAN SCHAER, FOR LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INNOVATION CORPORATION Over three decades ago, Dr. Anne Deckert first started working at the Ontario Veterinary College as a summer student for Dr. Bob Friendship. This past February, following his retirement, she returned full-time to OVC when she became an assistant professor and the third swine-focused faculty member alongside Dr. Zvonimir Poljak and Dr. Terri O’Sullivan. “The new role is a balance between teaching the swine components of the veterinary curriculum and undergraduate animal health course, alongside research and supervising graduate students conducting projects,” says Deckert. She grew up on a pig farm and worked as a food animal veterinarian for several years after graduating from OVC before completing a Masters in epidemiology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and returning to OVC as a research associate. Deckert joined the Public Health Agency of Canada as a veterinary epidemiologist in 1999 but kept a
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