Charles Broussard DVM, MAM, Dipl. ACPV

Following graduation from the University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine with a Masters in Avian Medicine, Charlie began his poultry career at Gold Kist, as a regional veterinarian. After seven years, he became the first Broiler Manager for the largest complex at Gold Kist Boaz, AL (comprising over 2 million birds per week with 3 different bird sizes). His responsibilities included managing 10 Broiler Supervisors, interacting with many broiler growers, coordinating quarterly Grower Patron Council meetings, while directing the broiler expansion program of over 100 new evaporative cooled tunnel houses. Looking to expand his knowledge and experience led him to the Directorship of the Fakeih Poultry Diagnostic Lab, in Taif, Saudi Arabia. His responsibilities included directing all areas of the service lab, coordinating poultry health programs for breeders, broilers and commercial layers and supervising the staff of 5 veterinarians, 19 technicians and numerous field/hatchery personnel. He returned to the US in 1999 and joined Schering-Plough Animal Health as a Global Technical Service Manager with a focus on coccidial vaccines both in and outside the US. In 2005, he became Director of the Global Technical Services team with a staff of 6 full-time and 2 part-time veterinarians supporting both the domestic and international business with a focus on the strategic implementation of technical programs for the Global Poultry Business Unit. Having a keen interest in merging both technical and marketing, he assumed a Technical/Marketing position at Intervet/Schering-Plough involved with development of strategic programs for the poultry unit. Recently he has assumed the position of National Account manager, with responsibilities for major poultry accounts.

Connie White MS, DVM, MPH, PhD

Connie White is a companion animal practitioner with past experience in equine, mixed animal, and emergency referral medicine. She is a research collaborator with the Centre Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (CEVM) at the University of Nottingham in the UK and teaches EBVM at Oregon State University Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine. In addition to her clinical training, she has an MPH in biostatistics/epidemiology and a PhD in molecular biology. As a CEVM collaborator, she has published research on clinical decision making in companion animal ophthalmology and a systematic review of nictitans prolapse surgical repair. A native Californian, she has lived and worked in Oregon for more than 30 years and is the current president of the Oregon Veterinary Medical Association. She respectful of all things avian after a friend’s unattended Macaw dismantled the keyboard of her doctoral dissertation computer causing some delay in publication of the library copy.

David French, DVM, MAM, Dipl. ACPV

David French, DVM, MAM, and Diplomate of ACPV has been active in the poultry industry since graduating from the MAM program in 1985. Dr. French has served as company veterinarian for Townsends and Sanderson Farms, director of poultry technical consulting for two pharmaceutical companies, and is currently serving as Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Georgia in the Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center.

Jenny Nicholds DVM, MAM, Dipl. ACPV

Jenny Nicholds is a clinical associate professor of avian medicine in the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia. Her interests include poultry parasites and metabolic disease. Before making a move to Athens, Nicholds worked as the Poultry Extension Veterinarian at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada and as a Veterinarian with Poultry Health Services Ltd., in Alberta, Canada. She has won the American Association of Avian Pathologist’s award for best field case/diagnostic report 2 years in a row, 2017 and 2018. Nicholds earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, and her Master’s of Avian Medicine at UGA. She earned her bachelor’s in agriculture from the University of Alberta, Canada. Nicholds was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She lives with her husband William and their two girls: Elise, 7, and Stella, 3. She and her husband enjoy restoring vintage airstream travel trailers, although the project managers (Elise and Stella) are delaying renovations.  

Joel Cline DVM, MAM

Joel Cline attended Reinhardt College in his hometown of Waleska, GA prior to transferring to the University of Georgia where he received his bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, and Master or Avian Medicine. Dr. Cline worked for the Alabama Department of Agriculture for over 16 years where he served as director of the J. B. Taylor Diagnostic Laboratory in Elba, Alabama. He is currently working for Wayne Farms as a corporate Veterinarian. Dr. Cline continues to live in Elba, Alabama with his wife Anne and their children Grace and Joseph.

Jolene Tourville DVM

Jolene Tourville is the Staff Veterinarian for the Barron, WI branch of Jennie-O Turkey Store.  Jolene graduated with a DVM from the University of Minnesota, College of Veterinary Medicine in 2013.  She started her career in small animal medicine before she started to work in poultry.  She is responsible for the projects and protocols to further the health, welfare and performance of turkeys. 

Karen Grogan DVM, MAM, Dipl. ACPV

A native of North Carolina, Dr. Grogan received her undergraduate degree and DVM from North Carolina State University. Deciding poultry medicine was focus, she completed the MAM at the University of Georgia. She began her career as the technical services veterinarian for Lohmann Animal Health International. The next position held was as Veterinary Medical Officer with the National Poultry Improvement Plan, USDA, APHIS where she initiated the implementation of the H5/H7 LPAI program in broilers. In 2007, in an effort to balance a family life, she founded a consulting and technical writing firm, Chicken Scratch, LLC. She began a part-time role back at UGA PDRC in developing instructional materials for the online MAHM degree program, eventually administering much of that program. The call of academia and service to the GA poultry industry prompted her to return full-time as a clinician at PDRC in 2017. In addition to her diagnostic role at PDRC, she also serves as Graduate Coordinator for the MAM and MAHM programs.

Mark Bland MS, DVM, Dipl. ACPV

Dr. Bland is currently a Poultry Veterinary Consultant in association with Cutler Associates International.  Dr. Bland provides poultry health, veterinary and management services to a number of broiler, layer, turkey, duck, breeders of all four major species of poultry and squab producing companies in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah and British Columbia, Canada.

He grew up in a small rural area outside of Hillsboro, Oregon.  At age 7 he, along with his grandmother raised a small flock of chickens for eggs. Later the small flock expanded to over 500 layers (production reds, barred rocks, Ameraucanas (lay blue, green, olive, pink, brown eggs), and New Hampshire’s as an FFA project on his grandmother’s farm.  In addition to raising chickens, Dr. Bland was involved with milking goats, market pigs and a small heard (40 plus) of beef cattle.

Dr. Bland earned his BS and MS in Poultry Science at Oregon State University in 1981 & 1983 respectively.  He went on to get his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Oregon State University in 1987. From 1987 to 1989 Dr. Bland worked and completed his Residency in Poultry Medicine at the University of California at Davis.  He went on to work as a corporate veterinarian for Nicholas Turkey Breeder Farms located in Sonoma, California from 1988 to 1997. From 1998 to the present, Dr. Bland has been working as a Poultry Veterinary Consultant with Cutler Associates International. His professional responsibilities include: overseeing all aspects of flock health management, vaccination programs, applied research, customer service, surveillance monitoring and export health certification.  Other veterinary related activities include coordinating veterinary student preceptorships from all over the world, improving biosecurity and sanitation procedures and educational assistance to his clients.  

His clients consist of small to medium sized poultry producers raising, commercial layers, broilers, turkeys, ducks, guinea fowl and squab production as well as layer, broiler, turkey, duck breeder operations.  Production practices include conventional, organic, Antibiotic Free and Pastured raised poultry.

Martin Smith MS, EdD

The over-arching goal of my work is to develop and publish effective, research-based educational materials and educator professional development models. Specifically, I focus on materials and strategies that are situated in authentic contexts and emphasize constructivism and reflective practice. I accomplish this through multiple campus, county, state, national, international, and agency-based collaborations. My current work focuses on applied research related to strategic initiatives within the University of California’s Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (e.g., safe and secure food supplies; sustainable natural resources; water quality, quantity, and security), with a particular emphasis on the 4-H Youth Development Program in California and nationally. Additionally, I have worked for the past 15 years on introducing and broadening the use of lesson study, a community-of-practice-based model of educator professional development to the landscape of nonformal education. This work was presented at the 2019 World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS) annual conference in Holland; it will also be featured at the 2020 WALS conference in San Francisco. In my tenure at UC-Davis I have supervised 22 graduate students from science disciplines in education work through the School of Education, the department of Nutrition, the department of Human Ecology, and the School of Veterinary Medicine, have served on thesis and dissertation committees, and have mentored over 900 undergraduate students involved in translational research, development, and extension efforts. 

Natalie Armour BVSc, MAM, PhD, Dipl. ACPV

Dr. Armour received her veterinary degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa in 2004, and was employed as a state veterinarian at a provincial veterinary laboratory in South Africa for the next 4 years. She received her Master of Avian Medicine (MAM) degree in 2010 and her PhD in Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences in 2014, both from the University of Georgia. Her PhD research focused on Mycoplasma transmission and epidemiology in commercial poultry. Dr. Armour is a diplomate of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians (ACPV), and is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Avian Medicine at Mississippi State University’s Poultry Research and Diagnostic Laboratory. Her duties include supervision of the Poultry Serology and AGID sections of the laboratory, conducting avian necropsy examinations, poultry field visits and disease investigations, and teaching undergraduate and graduate veterinary and poultry science students. She has authored/coauthored four peer-reviewed publications, one book subchapter and six technical articles, and has presented at numerous scientific meetings. Dr. Armour currently serves on the NPIP Technical Committee, and as chair of the AAAP Research Priorities Committee and assistant chair of the AAAP Scientific Program Committee.

Nick Dorko DVM, MAM, Dipl. ACPV

Dr. Nick Dorko is Aviagen’s Global Head of Veterinary Technical Services. After beginning his career at Perdue Farms as an associate veterinarian, he joined Arbor Acres in 1992. In 2002 he became Aviagen’s Regional Veterinary and Technical Services Manager in Asia. He holds a B.S. in Agriculture and DVM from the University of Tennessee, as well as a M.S. in Avian Medicine from the University of Georgia.

Seiche Genger DVM, MSPVM, Dipl. ACPV

Dr. Seiche Genger is the Technical Services Manager for South East Asia with Hy-Line International. Since 2019, she has worked on disease, management, production, import/export, welfare, and biosecurity issues with global distributers, commercial customers, and EW group flocks internationally. Additionally, Dr. Genger gives presentations on these topics at seminars, trade shows, universities, and scientific forums.

Dr. Genger is originally from California and attended California Polytechnic State University for undergraduate studies. She earned her DVM at the University of Tennessee and her MSpVM in poultry medicine from North Carolina State University. Before coming to Hy-Line international Dr. Genger worked for Cargill Turkey Production with responsibility for all aspects of production from parent stock through the processing plant. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians.

Yuko Sato DVM, MS, Dipl. ACPV

Yuko Sato is a 2012 graduate of Purdue University. She joined Iowa State University in August 2015 after completing a poultry residency and serves as the university’s Poultry Extension Veterinarian and Diagnostic Pathologist. She is a diplomate of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians since 2015. In the same year, HPAI hit Iowa and that was enough events for 2015.