Leo van Leengoed, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ECPHM |
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 | | I graduated from the Veterinary Faculty in Utrecht in 1977 and worked in a large animal practice and focused after a couple of years on pig medicine. From 1982-1996 I was employed by the Central Veterinary Institute (Lelystad) and was in charge of a pahtobiology lab. In 1988 I got my PhD on pathogenesis of Actibobacillus pleuropneumoniae. In 1990 I had a sabbatical at the Department of Medical Microbiology in Athens, Georgia USA. In 1996 I returned to the Department of Farm Animal Health in Utrecht. In 1998 I went for nearly 2 years as long term expert to Harare, Zimbabwe. I am author or co-author of more than 70 scientific papers and member of the ECPHM (European College Porcine Herd Health Management) and ECPHM-examination committee. In 2007 I started a company PorQ that aims to coach farmers in producing meat without being dependent of antibiotics. When you cannot cover up or hide deficiencies in herd health management by antibiotics, a clear preventive strategy is essential that is understand and endorsed by farmer and farmworkers. |
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Wouter Steenhuisen |
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 | | Wouter Steenhuisen graduated in 1977 as veterinarian from the State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is officially registered as Specialist Poultry Health by the Royal Dutch Veterinary Society. He has more than 20 years experience in veterinary and technical support to the international poultry industry. From 1984 to 2000, he was employed by Euribrid / Hybro, latest as Director Veterinary and Technical Service and Quality assurance. Since 2000, he works as independent consultant in Poultry Consult Boxmeer. Wouter is also part-time teacher at PTC+ training college Barneveld |
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dr. Nico Vreeburg, DVM |
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 | | Qualified in 1994 from Utrecht University, Netherlands. From 1994 to 2008 he worked as a private practitioner in veterinary practice De Overlaet, in Oss (NL). This practice focuses on four-legged farm animals and has dedicated itself to preventive herd health management and animal production support, with a team of 12 fulltime veterinarians. In 1997 Nico became a partner. During the following years he more and more dedicated his professional time to dairy farm support and joined the team of Vetvice, as trainer/consultant. Within Vetvice, he participated in the development of the CowSignals® concept and co-founded Vetvice Barn Design. On January 1, 2009, Nico left De Overlaet to join the Vetvice Group as a partner.
At this moment, Nico works works fulltime within the Vetvice Group as a trainer/consultant on barn design, dairy farm management and cow management. Vetvice Barn Design is a leading consultancy on designing dairy barns for cow wellness, labor efficiency and sustainable milk production. Vetvice Future Farming consults and trains dairy farm staff on save and efficient working procedures. Vetvice CowSignals Company trains dairymen and their advisors worldwide, in the areas of CowSignals and preventive management. Vetvice is active in over 30 countries with a team of 6 veterinarians, 2 agricultural engineers and 1 office manager. |
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Dr. Jan Hulsen |
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 | | Dr. Jan Hulsen, DVM, MSM, qualified in 1993 from Utrecht University, Netherlands. After working as a private practitioner for 3,5 years, he founded Vetvice in 1997 with Joep Driessen.
At this moment, Jan is general manager of the Vetvice Group, author and trainer/consultant for dairy farmers and for their advisors and suppliers. His activities consists mainly of concept and product development, and marketing, for Vetvice and for numerous agricultural and veterinary organisations. In 2002 Jan obtained an executive MBA degree in strategic business management. He is a regular visitor of post-academic education programmes in many areas, both as a speaker and as an attendant. |
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Bertjan Westerlaan |
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 | | Bertjan Westerlaan works as an advisor and c-owner for Vetvice (Housing and Future Farming). For an other 50% he is working as a Veterinary surgeon in DC Oosterwolde |
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Kasper Dieho, DVM |
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 | | After graduating on Friday April 13th 2007 as a Veterinarian at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, I joined the Buitenpraktijk (the ruminant practice run by the Farm Animal Department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine) shortly thereafter as a ruminant practitioner and teacher. In spring 2009 the Buitenpraktijk fused with a privately held practice and the Universitaire Landbouwhuisdierenpraktijk Westelijk Weidegebied, an independent commercial veterinarian practice owned by Utrecht University, was formed. Since I still enjoyed working as a veterinary practitioner and teacher I joined the ULP to further develop myself as a vet and share my experiences and ideas with my students and colleagues. During my time as a practitioner I developed, amongst several other subjects, a keen interest in communication, advise and on-farm veterinary consultancy. Of special interest to me are the problems and challenges we face as (Dutch) veterinarians which make it so difficult to be THE advisor the farmer needs and gladly pays for. I' am looking forward to explore this problem with you in the workshop on October 22th and hope to meet you there. |
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Jos Raassens |
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| | | In 1989 Jos Raassens bought the company of his parents. In the last years the agriculture was getting smaller and the space for the chickens was growing into free range and from 9,000 to more than 50,000 chickens.  
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Diego Padoan DVM |
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 | | Diego Padoan is Technical Manager at BIOMIN GmbH |
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