{"id":7979,"date":"2020-03-27T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2020-03-27T11:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:56:52","slug":"alumnus-appointed-as-new-aasv-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/alumnus-appointed-as-new-aasv-president.php","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Appointed as New AASV President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pictured left-right: New AASV President Jeffrey Harker with fellow AASV officers Mary Battrell (president-elect), Michael Senn (vice president), and Nathan Winkelman (immediate past-president).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jeffrey Harker (PU DVM \u201994) assumed the top office in the\nAmerican Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) earlier this month when he\nbegan his term as the association\u2019s president.  This next step for Dr. Harker in his career\ndedicated to swine practice reflects a pattern of service in multiple\norganizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having grown up on a diversified livestock and grain farm\nnear Waldron, Ind., Dr. Harker was active in both 4-H and FFA in his youth and\nwas presented with the FFA\u2019s American Farmer degree in 1989. After earning his\nPurdue DVM degree in 1994, Dr. Harker joined fellow PVM alumnus Dr. Max\nRodibaugh (PU DVM \u201977) as an associate veterinarian at Swine Health Services\n(now AMVC Swine Health Services) in Frankfort, Ind. In 2001, he became a\npartner in the swine specialty practice that serves a diverse clientele, from those\nwith small show pig herds to contract growers in integrated production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since joining the AASV, Dr. Harker has served on the Board of\nDirectors, represented the organization in the American Veterinary Medical\nAssociation\u2019s House of Delegates, participated on the AASV Annual Meeting\nPlanning Committee, and held the office of President of the Indiana Pork Producers\nAssociation. In 2017, he received the AASV Meritorious Service Award. In\naddition to his work with the AASV, Dr. Harker has been involved with the\nNational Pork Board\u2019s Operation Main Street program since its inception in 2004.\nHe also serves as an adjunct assistant professor in Purdue Veterinary\nMedicine\u2019s Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am looking forward to working with the AASV board, members, and staff on solving the challenges as they arise over the next year. Considering the current poor market situation along with the increased threat of foreign animal disease, the AASV will need to continue to provide the best scientific information to the swine industry,\u201d said Dr. Harker. \u201cI hope that I can help maintain AASV\u2019s past success in navigating through these challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Harker currently lives in Clinton County, Ind. with his wife, Traci, and two of their four children. His other two children and his grandchildren live nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other AASV officers serving with Dr. Harker are Dr. Nathan Winkelman (UMN DVM \u201984), immediate past president; Dr. Mary Battrell (ISU DVM \u201995), president-elect; and Dr. Michael Senn (KSU DVM \u201991), vice president.\u00a0 The new officers were installed March 10 during the association\u2019s 51st<\/sup> Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Ga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Jeffrey Harker (PU DVM \u201994) assumed the top office in the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) earlier this month when he began his term as the association\u2019s president. This next step for Dr. Harker in his career dedicated to swine practice reflects a pattern of service in multiple organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,29],"tags":[107,1610,1609,26,56,1608,202],"class_list":["post-7979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-our-people","tag-alumni","tag-american-association-of-swine-veterinarians","tag-dvm-class-of-1994","tag-featured-story","tag-homepage","tag-jeffrey-harker","tag-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7984,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions\/7984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}