Dörte Döpfer

Dörte Döpfer is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her specific research interest is the epidemiology of digital dermatitis (heel warts) in cattle has led to research about the best-practice for hoof bathing in order to prevent and control digital dermatitis in cattle.
Döpfer received a veterinary degree from the Justus-Liebig-University in 1992, and a D.V.M. from the University of Hannover, Germany in 1994 with a thesis "Epidemiological investigations of digital dermatitis on two dairy farms". She also received a M.Sc. in veterinary epidemiology in 1994 for Utrecht University, followed by a Ph.D. in Veterinary Microbiology from Utrecht in 2000.
Döpfer has worked in bovine clinics, taught infectious diseases as an assistant professor at Utrecht University, and worked as a senior veterinary epidemiologist at the Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiology Group/Division of Infectious Diseases/Animal Sciences Group at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. In 2008, she became an assistant professor in the Food Animal Production Medicine Group of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
She is currently working on mathematical models for infectious diseases specializing in complex host-pathogen interactions and transmission dynamics of infectious diseases, spatial modeling, food safety, Global Health and farm animal production medicine, disease surveillance and risk analysis. Dörte has participated in international expert groups for WHO, VLA/UK and other EU Member States.<ref name=CV />

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