Rodger Main DVM, PhD

Dr. Rodger Main is a Professor and Director of the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (ISU VDL). ISU VDL’s team of 160 faculty and staff play an active role on the frontlines of US animal agriculture processing approximately 100,000 diagnostic case submissions and conducting more than 1.4 million diagnostic assays annually. Prior to coming to the ISU VDL in 2009, Dr. Main served as the Director of Production Systems for Murphy-Brown’s Western Operations (a division of Smithfield Foods) where he had worked since graduating veterinary school in 1996.