Quality, quantity and impact of work characterize Scott Dee’s innovative work in the U.S. pork industry, shared Tom Molitor, professor in the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, as he presented Dee with the college’s Distinguished Research Alumni Award.
Dee continues to make a significant impact in the world of veterinary swine medicine through research efforts focused on infectious diseases after a 35-year career serving pork producers.
“This award means a great deal to me as it comes from my alma mater where I was trained and served on faculty,” says Scott Dee, DVM and emeritus director of discovery and innovation at Pipestone Applied Research. “I will never forget the teachers who impacted me: HS Joo, Tom Molitor, the late Carlos Pijoan and the late Al Leman.”
For nearly four decades, Dee’s career has extended to academia and industry. He worked as a swine practitioner for the Swine Health Center in Morris, Minn., until 1998. He joined the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine faculty in 1999 as an associate professor, was promoted to professor in 2005, and left in 2011 to join Pipestone Veterinary Services. During Dee’s 12 years with the company, his work has focused on areas such as viral transport and transmission in feed, feed biosecurity and antimicrobial resistance at the level of the swine farm.
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Scott Dee, DVM, moved the needle time and time again to help swine veterinarians and pork producers protect their herds from infectious diseases.
Regardless of which path his career took over the years, he consistently made significant advances in his research on infectious disease control and transmission.
“Dr. Scott Dee has had a highly distinguished career in applied research investigating problems addressing swine infectious diseases and disease control,” Molitor, Jerry Torrison, Montse Torremorell, Andres Perez, Maxim Cheeran and Maria Pieters wrote in their nomination letter. “His findings have been impactful, altering and improving production practices and thinking.”
Dee has nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications to his name, most importantly helping to advance the practice of biosecurity on the farm level. His work along with that of others has changed how feed is considered a source of infectious agent spread, how trucks could be a source of infection to a farm, how farms need to protect from airborne disease introduction, and how producers and veterinarians must work together to achieve comprehensive disease control.
“I received the award for the work conducted in the areas of disease transmission and swine farm biosecurity. I am very happy to see that the science we discovered is working in the field, helping animals live healthy and happy lives,” Dee says. “In the end, while the award is very much appreciated, it’s all about helping farmers. It’s great to see swine farms remaining free of infectious disease that used to be annual events.”
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