Keith Poulsen

Dr. Keith Poulsen has been the Director of the WVDL since 2018. Additionally, he holds a joint appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Medical Sciences Department at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine and is active in teaching large animal internal medicine. Dr. Poulsen is actively involved in the Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association (WVMA), American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM), National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN), and American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD). Dr. Poulsen’s interests focus on cattle health, zoonotic infectious diseases and global health.

Dr. Poulsen is a Wisconsin native and earned a BS in Biochemistry (2000) and DVM (2004) at the University of Wisconsin.  He interned at North Carolina State University in the Food Animal Medicine and Surgery Program prior to returning to Wisconsin for his residency in Large Animal Internal Medicine and earned diplomate status from ACVIM in 2008.  Following clinical training, Dr. Poulsen earned a PhD in Comparative Biomedical Sciences from the University of Wisconsin in 2012.  He spent two years at Oregon State University as a faculty member in Large Animal Internal Medicine and returned to the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the School of Veterinary Medicine in 2014.