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Dr John Mee

MVB PhD DipECBHM MVM FRCVS
John Mee
  • Location: Ireland
  • Year of Fellowship: 2021
  • Route to Fellowship: Meritorious Contributions to Knowledge

Field of work

Research institutes

Areas of special interest

  • Ruminant health and welfare
  • Calf health
  • Herd health

Areas of support

  • Collaborative research
  • Professional mentoring
  • Promoting knowledge and best practice
  • Translating research into veterinary practice

Professional positions

  • Animal Health Ireland, Biosecurity & CalfCare
  • Technical Working Groups
  • Irish Veterinary Journal, Deputy Editor
  • Royal Irish Academy, Member, Life & Medical Sciences Committee
  • Universidad Catolica Valencia, Visiting Lecturer, Facultad Veterinaria y Ciencias Experimentales
  • University College Cork, Adjunct Professor, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
  • University College Dublin, Visiting Lecturer, School of Veterinary Medicine
  • University of Liverpool, Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Veterinary Science
  • Waterford Institute of Technology, Visiting Lecturer, School of Science

Biography

Professor John Mee is the Principal Veterinary Research Scientist in Teagasc, the Irish national organization for agricultural research, advice and education. He works at the national dairy research centre in Moorepark and holds an adjunct professorship with University College Cork. He carries out animal health, welfare and theriogenology research in dairy and beef cattle and in sheep. His current research interests include perinatal and young stock management and diseases, herd health, biosecurity and endemic infectious and parasitic conditions of cattle and sheep.

John has over 35-years’ experience as PI in Teagasc and previously in universities and research institutions in Australia and in New Zealand and in public (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine) and private veterinary practice.

Dr. Mee is a European College of Veterinary Surgeons’ board-certified specialist in bovine health management, a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ registered specialist in cattle health and production, a Veterinary Council of Ireland accredited dual specialist in bovine health and in bovine perinatology and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

He has co-authored over 1,400 scientific publications including over 130 peer-reviewed papers. John acts on the Editorial Boards of four journals including Deputy Editor of the Irish Veterinary Journal. Dr. Mee currently teaches on eight agricultural and veterinary courses. He has been invited to lecture in over 30 countries.

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