Professors in CE in Vet Med - Emeritus
Fernanda C. Ferreira
DVM, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor in Cooperative Extension Herd Health and Management Economics
Office: Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center
18830 Rd 112, Tulare, CA
Phone: (559) 688-1731 ext. 222
E-mail: fcferreira@ucdavis.edu
Faculty webpage
Fernanda C. Ferreira was recently hired as the Herd Health and Management Economics Cooperative Extension Specialist. She got her DVM and MS degrees in Brazil, where she also worked for the private industry and the government for 8 years before coming to the US to obtain her PhD. During her PhD, she worked with Dr. Albert De Vries at University of Florida, and her work focused on the economic impact of management decisions such as heat abatement and embryo transfer technologies. At UC Davis, she plans to use analytics and quantitative methods to address current and future problems related to food animal production, focusing on the economic opportunities and impacts of herd health and management strategies, animal welfare, environmental stewardship, and precision technologies. She is passionate about extension and the opportunity to translate research outcomes to improve the livelihood of food animals and farmers.
Martin Smith
MS, EdD
Youth Literacy
Phone: (530) 752-6894
UC Davis campus
mhsmith@ucdavis.edu
Faculty Webpage Youth Scientific Literacy
Dr. Martin Smith’s research and extension focus emphasizes interdisciplinary curriculum development that includes applied research, evaluation, and program dissemination. Additionally, Dr. Smith’s work places an emphasis on effective professional development for science educators, with a focus on contemporary, community of practice-based models that are grounded in constructivism, are data-driven, and occur over extended periods of time. Recent endeavors include: the UC-ANR-funded Mitigating Zoonotic and Animal Disease Risks in 4-H Animal Science Projects through Coordinated Education and Research project, a statewide effort that involved collaborators in 11 California counties.
