Genaro Andrés Contreras

Genaro Andrés Contreras is an assistant professor of dairy health and wellbeing at MSU's Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, working on disease control and the training of Spanish-speaking dairy farm workers. Andés is originally from Bogotá, Colombia, where he began his career consulting for tropical cow-calf operations and grazing dairy farms. He managed a high-pedigree herd in Canada and was a veterinarian in MSU's Large Dairy Internship Program at a large dairy herd near Grand Rapids. Following the internship, Andres started a master's degree program focused on mastitis and milk quality while continuing his doctoral degree in metabolic and immune adaptations of dairy cows.