Experts

Prof. dr. Ynte Hein Schukken

CEO Royal GD

‘The combination of diagnostics and animal health expertise is what makes GD so unique. This enables us to offer products and services that not only improve animal health, but are also convenient for our customers and generate good financial returns.’ 

Dr. Ynte Schukken is Chief Executive Officer at Royal GD in Deventer, the Netherlands and a Professor of Management of Farm Animal Health at Wageningen University with a courtesy appointment as Professor of Farm Animal Disease Control Programs at the Veterinary College at Utrecht University. Dr. Schukken’s research approach is based on understanding epidemiology and pathobiology of the diseases and population dynamics of infectious diseases in animal populations and in application of epidemiological, statistical and mathematical methods to animal disease research. Ynte worked for many years at Quality Milk Production Services at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA. As an expert in bovine mastitis and infectious diseases he has published extensively in the peer reviewed and public literature. Ynte also has consulted on many dairy farms across the world and taught courses to groups of veterinarians, farmers and students.

Field of expertise: bovine mastitis, endemic infectious diseases of dairy farms, epidemiology, diagnostic tests, animal health programmes

Christian Scherpenzeel, DVM, PhD

• Udder health
• Milk quality
• Selective dry cow treatment

Maarten F. Weber, DVM, DBR, MSc, PhD, DipECBHM, DipECVPH

• Paratuberculosis
• Salmonellosis
• Epidemiology of infectious diseases

Thomas Dijkstra, DVM, PhD

Expertise

• Neosporosis
• Salmonelloisis
• Paratuberculosis
• Q-fever
• Brucellosis
• Abortion
• Animal Welfare

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Jasper het Lam, DVM

Expertise

• Animal health Surveillance
• Bovine respiratory Disease
• Mannheimia haemolytica
• Herd health Management

Menno Holzhauer, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ECBHM

Expertise

• Animal health surveillance
• Claw health
• Young stock nutrition and management
• Parasitic diseases

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Debora Smits, DVM

Expertise

• Animal health surveillance
• Youngstock
• Parasitic diseases

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Frederik Waldeck, DVM

Expertise

• Infectious disease IBR
• Infectious disease BVD
• Animal Welfare

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Katrien van den Brink, DVM

Expertise

• Bluetongue
• Infectious disease BVD
• Infectious disease IBR
• Leptospirosis
• Animal welfare

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Arne Vanhoudt, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ECBHM-EBVS®

• Foot health
• Cow comfort
• Animal welfare
• Dairy herd health

Emma Strous, DVM, DipECBHM

Expertise

• Infectious disease BVD
• Infectious disease IBR
• Dairy herd health
• Youngstock

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Ant Koopmans, DVM

Expertise

• Ruminant nutrition and health
• Drinking water for animals
• Dairy herd health

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Lucía Dieste Pérez, DVM MSc PhD

Expertise

• Swine health
• Diagnostics
• Brucella suis
• Microbiota

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Jobke van Hout, DVM, PhD

Expertise

• Manager research projects
• Scientific research
• Lecturer practical and academic courses

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Tijs Tobias, DVM MSc PhD Dipl. ECPHM

Expertise

• Swine Health
• Infectious pig diseases
• One Health in pig farming
• Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae

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Bas Engel 

Expertise

• Monitoring

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Eveline Willems

Expertise

• General pig health
• Reproduction
• Genetics

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Christiaan ter Veen, DVM, MAHM

Expertise

• Poultry Coccidiosis
• Zoonotic Salmonella
• Salmonella Pullorum/Salmonella Gallinarum

Jeanine Wiegel, DVM

Expertise

• Surveillance
• Research projects (antimicrobial use and resistance in poultry)
• Consultancy
• Bacterial diseases in poultry

Prof. Sjaak de Wit, DVM, PhD, DipECPVS

Expertise

• Diagnosis and transmission
• Quality and accreditation of serological tests for poultry pathogens
• Test development
• Applied research

Anneke Feberwee, DVM, PhD, EBVS®

Expertise

• Diagnosis and transmission
• Organized control
• Applied research
• Bacterial diseases in poultry

Robert Jan Molenaar, DVM, FCRPath

Expertise

• Diagnosis and transmission
• Organized control
• Applied research

Prof. dr. ir. Lonneke Vervelde

Expertise

• Host-pathogen interaction
• Vaccine development
• Avian (mucosal) immunity to viral, parasitic and bacterial diseases

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Kees van Maanen, DVM, PhD, specialist Veterinary Microbiology

 Expertise

• Equine infectious diseases
• Transboundary animal diseases
• Virology
• Diagnostic methods, in particular serological, virological and molecular methods
• Virtual and field training in low and middle income countries

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Linda van den Wollenberg, DVM, specialist Equine Internal Medicine

Expertise

• Equine infectious diseases
• Equine internal medicine

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Karianne Peterson, DVM, PhD, Grad. Cert. in UL&T, EBVS® European Specialist in Small Ruminant Health Management

Expertise

• Infectious diseases: MVV, CAEV, CLA, Paratuberculosis
• Metabolic disorders: (trace)minerals
• Diagnostics
• Goat health management
• Sheep health management

René van den Brom, DVM, PhD, DipECSRHM

Expertise

• Head of the Department of small ruminant health
• Surveillance of small ruminants health
• Zoonotic diseases (small ruminant related)
• Infectious causes of abortion
• Goat health management
• Sheep health management

Theo Lam, MSc, DVM, PhD

Expertise

• Bovine mastitis
• Udder health
• Antibiotic use

Annet Heuvelink, MSc, PhD

Expertise

• Antimicrobial resistance (testing and surveillance)
• MIC testing of antimicrobials (including feed activities)
• MALDI-TOF MS
• IR Biotyping
• Udder pathogens
• Salmonella
• E.coli

Erik van Engelen, MSc, PhD

Expertise

• Bacteriology
• Cryptosporidium parvum
• Mycoplasma bovis
• Tritrichomonas foetus
• Campylobacter fetus
• Coxiella burnetti
• Streptococcus suis

Harold van der Heijden, MSc, PhD

Expertise

• Development of veterinary diagnostic assays, especially immunodiagnostic assys (e.g. ELISA)

Marian Aalberts, DVM, PhD

Expertise

• Immunodiagnostic tests
• Infectious diseases of cattle and small ruminants
• Salmonellosis
• Paratuberculosis
• Parasitology

Saskia van der Drift, MSc, PhD

Expertise

• Animal nutrition
• Metabolic disorders
• Biomarkers
• Clinical biochemistry

Jet Mars, MSc, PhD

Expertise

• Immune diagnostics
• Epidemiology
• Laboratory quality
• Ruminant infectious disease

Remco Dijkman, PhD

Expertise

• Molecular diagnostics
• Molecular biology
• Molecular epidemiology and genotyping of veterinary pathogens
• Mycoplasma synoviae
• Infectious bronchitis virus
• Infectious bursal disease virus

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Erhard van der Vries, MSc, PhD

Expertise

• Zoonotic diseases
• Monitoring and surveillance
• Virus discovery
• Moleculair diagnostics and next-generation sequencing

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Inge Santman-Berends, MSc, PhD

Expertise

• Quantitative epidemiology
• Surveillance
• Simulation modelling
• Predictive modelling
• Risk analyses
• Data products

Manon Holstege, MSc

Expertise

• Quantitative epidemiology
• Prediction models
• New methodological opportunities
• Zoonoses

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Gerdien van Schaik, MSc, PhD

Expertise

• Quantitative epidemiology
• Infectious diseases
• Modelling
• Surveillance

Anouk Veldhuis, MSc, PhD 

Expertise

• Quantitative epidemiology
• Syndromic surveillance
• Surveillance of endemic diseases
• Scenario tree modelling

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Corneel Vermeulen, MSc, PhD 

Expertise

• Genetics and Genomics
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• High-throughput sequencing

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Henriëtte Brouwer-Middelesch, MSc

Expertise

• Quantitative epidemiology
• Data products
• Syndromic surveillance
• Predictive modelling

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Irene Bisschop, MSc

Expertise

• Quantitative epidemiology
• Data monitoring
• Syndromic surveillance

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Nadine Meertens, DVM, Dr.med.vet., DipECVP

Expertise

• Oral pathology
• Dermatopathology
• Oncological pathology

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