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Matt Welborn, DVM


Associate Professor
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Tennessee
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: 865-974-5703
Fax: (865) 974-5773

Education

  • DVM - Louisiana State University
  • Master of Public Health - University of Tennessee - 2005

Training

  • Residency - Food animal production medicine - Louisiana State University - 1990
  • Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostician - 2002
  • Agricultural Emergency Responder Certification - 2007

Teaching

  • Veterinary Public Health
  • Food Animal Production
  • Foreign animal, emerging, and zoonotic diseases
  • Diary Production, mastitis and parlor management
  • Bovine Reproduction
  • Plant Toxicology
  • Biosecurity

Clinical Interests

  • Veterinary public health
  • Bio/Agroterrorism
  • Food Animal Production
  • Plant Toxicology

Board Certifications

  • Diplomate - American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine

Professional Societies

  • AVMA
  • American Association of Bovine Practitioners
  • American College of Public Health Veterinarians

Publications

  • Effects of a Concentrated Lidocaine Solution on the Acute Phase stress response to dehorning in Diary Calves. Doherty TJ, Kattesh HG, Adcock RJ, Welborn MG, Saxton AM, Morrow JL, Dailey JW, Jour. Dairy Sci. 90:4232-4239, 2007.
  • Nancy E. Howell, Fred Hopkins, David Smelser, Matt Welborn, Sharon Thompson, Developing a Collaborative Course for Agriculture and Food Vulnerability Assessment Training. American Public Health Association 2008 Annual Meeting, Oct. 25-29, San Diego, CA.
  • Alice Green, Matt Welborn, Clyde Lane, Darryl Edmisson, L. Rand Carpenter, John Dunn, Management Practices Associated with Veterinary Consultation Among Beef Cattle Producers. 2008 Annual Conference of American Association of Bovine Practitioners, Sept. 25-27, Charlotte, NC.