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Dr Juan Hernandez-Medrano

DVM (MVZ) MSc PhD AFHEA
Pronouns: He Him

Affiliations

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Contact information

Web presence

Phone number

+1 (403) 210-6331: +1 (639) 994-1244

Location

Office: CWPH1E18

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Office: +1.403.210.6615
Email: collene.ferguson@ucalgary.ca
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Background

Credentials

Associate Fellow, AdvanceHE (UK), 2020

Educational Background

PhD Agricultural Sciences (Animal Physiology), University of Nottingham, 2010

MSc Animal Production and Health Sciences (Cattle Reproduction), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), 2006

DVM (Med Vet Zootecnista) Veterinary Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), 2002

Biography

Dr Juan Hernandez-Medrano graduated as a Veterinarian (Honours) from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (FMVZ-UNAM) in 2002, following an externship on Large Animal Medicine at the Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center of the University of Nebraska, U.S.A. He obtained an MSc in cattle reproduction at the FMVZ-UNAM in 2005 and his PhD in foetal reproductive development at the University of Nottingham in 2010. Following completion of his PhD, he obtained several Research Fellow positions at the University of Nottingham in the areas of comparative ovarian physiology (2010-213), dairy cattle nutrition (2010) and beef cattle reproduction (2013-2014).
He was invited to join the Faulty of Veterinary Medicine at UNAM as Lecturer on Animal Reproduction where he spent 3 years teaching Physiology of Reproduction and Pregnancy. While at FMVZ-UNAM, he was a founder member of the Research Network for Tropical Cattle Production and the Interinstitutional Postgraduate Program for Sustainable Livestock Production and Eco-Health. 
In 2017, he joined the MMedSci on Assisted Reproduction Technologies at the School of Medicine of the University of Nottingham as Assistant Professor and Deputy Course Director. He oversaw the reorganisation of the course and established the reproductive tissue cryopreservation laboratory. 
Currently, Dr Hernandez-Medrano is Assistant Professor in Bovine Theriogenology at the Department of Production Animal Health at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Calgary.