Dr Juan Hernandez-Medrano
Affiliations
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Contact information
Phone number
+1 (403) 210-6331: +1 (639) 994-1244
Location
Office: CWPH1E18
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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.
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