Jos. P. Noordhuizen

Jos. P. Noordhuizen

Short Bio:

Born the 9th of April 1947. Graduated in 1975, and followed a specialisation in Farm Animal Obstetrics & Reproduction at Utrecht University (NL) until 1978. Was a private veterinarian in rural practices in the south and the east of NL dealing with clinical work and conducting herd fertility schemes; in 1981 consulting cattle veterinarian at the Animal Health Service Centre in Limburg, NL. In 1984 PhD on dairy herd health programmes (with a computer support program) and then associated professor at the dept. of Herd Health & Ambulatory Clinic, Utrecht, NL. In 1988 full professor at the dept. of Animal Husbandry, Wageningen Agricultural University, NL. In 1997 full professor at the dept. of Ruminant Health Care, Utrecht, NL. Pre-retirement in 2005, and since then fulfilled visiting professorships at Ghent University, Nantes Veterinary School and Lyon Veterinary School, dealing with development of herd health programmes and teaching quality risk management following HACCP-principles. Has supervised over 30 PhD theses, published more than 250 scientific papers, consulted in different countries (e.g. Costa Rica, Vietnam, Thailand, Sweden) and (co-) published text books on conducting clinical trials, on dairy herd health programmes, on applied veterinary epidemiology, on applying quality risk management, and on young stock management. Was a founding father of the EC VPH and the EC BHM. Currently, he works as a veterinary trainer in practitioner-focussed courses, as consulting veterinarian for farmers and veterinarians around the world, and as co-developer of quick reference guides and the vacqa-international.com website.