Gustavo S. Silva, DVM, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Ames, Iowa

2021 - Present. Iowa State University, Assistant Professor at Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine.
2019 – 2020. Carthage Innovative Swine Solutions, LLC. Research Scientist.
2018 - Postdoc at Iowa State University. Field epidemiology.
2018 Ph.D. Preventive Veterinary Medicine/Epidemiology - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a part-time appointment at Iowa State University, Ames, USA. Research assistent and graduate student.
2014 MS - Veterinary Pathology. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil. Research assistent and graduate student.
2010 – 2011 TECNOMERC, Brazil. Provided technical services in swine production operations mostly focused on sow farm.
2009 DVM - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil.

Presentation(s):

• 215 - Assessment of the relationship between lactation feeding patterns, litter performance measures, and sow characteristics on sow farrowing efficiency metrics

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  2:00 PM – 2:15 PM CST

• 235 - Unsupervised learning for clustering swine breeding herds based on farm characteristics and management and their impact on reproductive performance in southern Brazil breeding herd

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  9:00 AM – 9:15 AM CST

• 236 - Factors associated with the farrowing rate in Brazilian batch farrowing sow farms

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  9:15 AM – 9:30 AM CST