Speaker bio page for Ingrid Lorenz

Bio

Dr. Lorenz is currently Head of the Cattle Health Service at the Bavarian Animal Health Service in Poing, Germany as well as Adjunct Senior Lecturer at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.  Previously she has been teaching Bovine Medicine at (UCD) from 2007 to January 2016.

Since 2010 she chairs the CalfCare™ technical working group for Animal Health Ireland which is providing science-based advice to Irish farmers on all topics concerning calf health from birth to weaning.

Dr. Lorenz graduated from the Veterinary School of the University of Munich in 1992 after which she prepared her doctoral thesis in the area of calf diseases at the Clinic for Ruminants at the same university. She subsequently took up a lecturer position at the Clinic for Ruminants and was awarded her Habilitation in 2007. Through her work there, she acquired a vast experience in the internal medicine of the individual animal as well as in the investigation of calf-related herd health problems. Her research interests concentrate on the metabolic alterations associated with calf diarrhoea.