Yasser Mahmmod DVM

Dr. Mahmmod is an enthusiastic veterinarian, lecturer, and results-oriented researcher. With a career spanning 20 years in clinical practice and academic pursuits, Dr. Mahmmod holds a Ph.D. on cattle health and epidemiology from University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His Ph.D. studies focused on udder health management and mastitis epidemiology in dairy cows. He pursued his postdoctoral fellow training at University of Minnesota, USA. He worked on different dairy production medicine topics, particularly bovine lameness, and herd health management in organic dairy farms in the Midwest. In 2016, he joined University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral fellow after being awarded an international fellowship “Merit Postdoc Fellowship”. He investigated the epidemiology and diagnostics of contagious mastitis pathogens in dairy herds using Bayesian latent class modelling. In 2018, he joined Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain after receiving the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. He worked on metagenomics characterization of microbial communities, animal microbiome, and their interaction with animal health and production. Dr. Mahmmod obtained his DVM followed by a combined internal medicine residency and Master program at Zagazig University. He studied the clinical epidemiology of ticks and tick-borne diseases in cattle and buffaloes in Egypt. Through his academic carrier, he was a recipient of several awards and recognitions, and his research work has been listed as Editor’s Choice in the journal of Dairy Science.
Before joining the LIU College of Veterinary Medicine as an Associate professor, Dr. Mahmmod had been promoted into several academic positions at research institutions in Denmark, Spain, the USA, China, Egypt, and UAE. He has been the recipient of many prestigious grants from various national and international funding agencies. Dr. Mahmmod has published more than 80 manuscripts in top ranked peer-reviewed journals.