BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
Norm. Williamson grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where at age 9 he decided that he wanted to work with cattle breeding, as a veterinarian. He graduated BVSc (Melb) in 1968 and MVSc (Melb) in 1974. Initial employment involved teaching, research and clinical work at the Veterinary Clinical Centre, University of Melbourne in Werribee. Working from the same place, Norm joined the Victorian Department of Agriculture and continued to develop and evaluate the application of dairy herd health and management programs backed by computer records. He gained an MACVSc (1977) in dairy medicine and preventive medicine. He moved to the University of Minnesota, USA in 1980, where he became Professor of Theriogenology and Herd Health, and Extension Veterinarian in Cattle Reproduction until 1989. While at the University of Minnesota hequalified as Diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists (1984). In 1989 he took up the position as Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Head of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Massey University which he held until Departments ceased to exist under re-structuring in 1998. From 1998 he has continued as Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Head of the Undergraduate Teaching Portfolio in the Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences. Norm has been active in the veterinary profession in New Zealand. He was Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Continuing Education of the New Zealand Veterinary Association from 1990 to 1996 and a Board member of the New Zealand Veterinary Association since 1993. He is a member of the Veterinary Council of New Zealand in an ex officio capacity, by virtue of his appointment as Academic Director of Veterinary Science. |
