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Dr Katharine Denholm

BVMS PhD MVS PGCAP FRCVS
Katharine Denholm
  • Location: Stirlingshire
  • Year of Fellowship: 2025
  • Route to Fellowship: Meritorious Contributions to Clinical practice

Field of work

Veterinary schools

Areas of special interest

  • Colostrum management
  • Dairy calf health
  • Dairy cow health

Areas of support

  • Collaborative research
  • Public engagement
  • Translating research into veterinary practice

Professional positions

  • Editorial Board Member for Journal of Dairy Research
  • Deputy post graduate research convenor University of Glasgow
  • Dormant membership of the New Zealand Veterinary Association and New Zealand Dairy Cattle Vets.

Awards

  • Australia New Zealand College of Veterinary Surgeons Most Commendable Paper Award most commendable paper 2017 for Comparison of diagnostic tests for determining the prevalence of failure of passive transfer in New Zealand dairy calves, New Zealand Veterinary Journal
  • Student teaching award nominee for Production Animal Teaching Staff Member of the Year Award every year 2021 to present

Biography

Katie Denholm works at the University of Glasgow as a farm animal senior academic clinician with a special interest in dairy calves and colostrum management. She joined the team from New Zealand where she worked as a herd health consultant and dairy vet for Anexa Animal Health in Hamilton in the North Island. She has a Masters in Veterinary Epidemiology with a research interest and PhD in calf health and colostrum management. Katie is experienced in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as farmers and other vets; motivating people to make changes to improve farm profitability and sustainability.

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