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List of Contributors

Jason K. Ahola is a professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University. His research pro-
gram focuses on beef cattle management and pain mitigation strategies for castration, branding, and
dehorning of beef cattle.

Shawn L. Archibeque is a professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University. He is a rumi-
nant nutritionist focused on environmental dimensions of animal agriculture.

E. R. Atwill is a professor of veterinary medicine at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University
of California, and Davis. He is an epidemiologist focused on microbial impacts on food and the envi-
ronment. He serves as director of the Western Institute of Food Safety and Security and Director of
Veterinary Medicine Extension.

Fuller W. Bazer is a regent fellow, distinguished professor, and O.D. Butler Chair in animal science
at Texas A&M University.

Alex Beck is a veterinary practitioner specializing in dairy in Banks, Oregon.

Frank H. Buck Jr, UC Davis, Davis, California.

Munashe Chigerwe is an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology in the School of
Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis.

Johann F. Coetzee is a professor and the department head of anatomy and physiology at Kansas
State University College of Veterinary Medicine, where he also serves as interim director of
nanotechnology at the Innovation Center of Kansas State (Nicks) and Institute of Computational
Comparative Medicine (ICCM).

Candace Croney is the director, Center for Animal Welfare Science and a professor of Animal
Behavior and Well-Being at the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of
Pathobiology.

Courtney Daigle is an assistant professor in the Department of Animal Science at Agriculture and
Life Sciences Texas A&M University. Dr. Daigle specializes in evaluating management practices
to optimize animal health, productivity, and welfare. Her laboratory quantifies behavior to develop
and validate technologies designed to measure species specific behaviors important to health, wel-
fare, and productivity.

Daniel M. Dooley is an attorney and former Vice President of the Division of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, University of California and former Chief Deputy Director of the California
Department of Food and Agriculture.

Lily N. Edwards-Callaway is currently an assistant professor of Livestock Behavior and Welfare
at Colorado State University in the Animal Science Department. Her research interests include
investigating management strategies to reduce animal stress.

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