Vinicius Machado, Ph.D.

Machado, who was born in Goiania, Goias, Brazil, earned his veterinary medicine degree in 2009 from Federal University of Goias, Brazil, and his doctorate in 2015 in animal sciences from Cornell University. Machado completed a residency program in the Ambulatory and Production Medicine Clinic of the Cornell University Hospital for Animals in 2017 and joined the Department of Veterinary Sciences of Texas Tech University shortly after that.

His research interests include a variety of areas related to dairy health, such as the development management of strategies targeted to improve the health of calves (heifers and beef-on-dairy crosses) and lactating cows, and to optimize the utilization of antimicrobials in dairy farms.