Whitney Knauer, VMD, PhD

Dr. Knauer developed her love of the dairy industry while an undergrad at the University of Vermont. After graduating with an Animal Science degree, she continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, earning her VMD in 2010. She then completed an Internship and Residency in Ambulatory and Production Medicine at Cornell University in 2013. She completed her PhD under the mentorship of Dr. Sandra Godden at the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty in the fall of 2017 where she splits her time between teaching and research. Her teaching interests include animal welfare and behavior, and dairy and small ruminant clinical and production medicine. Her research focuses on improving the welfare of young ruminants, most recently concentrating on social housing of dairy calves, colostrum management, and pain mitigation for common husbandry procedures in calves and goat kids.