DMS Faculty Office: 2002

• Associate Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology 2007
• DVM 1964, Michigan State University
• MPVM 1976, UC Davis
• MS 1979, Agriculture Economics, UC Davis
• PhD 1981, Epidemiology, UC Davis

The USDA’s funding of $300,000 for the extension of the work in Bangladesh through 2011. In addition, as a direct result of this extension, the USDA funded a proposal from colleagues at Bangladesh Agricultural University another $300,000 in a project that will require integration with its extended Field fertility project. Along with this developing the project team from the U-W campus with Professor’s Harry Momont, John Parrish, Milo Wiltbank, Jess Reed and Gary Frank along with a 2004 UW-SVM graduate Dr. Rachel Klos taking on project responsibilities. The USDA has also spent $50,000 on a guest house to host U-W scientists at Bangladesh Agricultural University.

Dr. Goodger is coordinator of the programs of the U-W-SVM Charmany dairy teaching herd. The teaching herd is a milking dairy herd of 54 cows shipping milk to Foremost Farms. The herd has 43 replacement heifers and calves. The teaching herd is used by 28 laboratories in the school’s curriculum;There have been almost 275 students to work in the teaching herd since its inception in Sept 2000;and the VMTH provides ambulatory services through Large Animal Medicine, Large Animal Surgery, and Theriogenology to the herd.

Dr. Goodger teaches a Herd health rotation for both 4th year students and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students. Provide opportunity for students to be responsible for the health of the Teaching Herd by making clinical decisions on treatment/monitoring, and implementing those decisions by themselves or through supervision of pre-clinical students.

M. Shamsuddin, W.J. Goodger, M.S.Hossein, Azizunnesa, T. Bennett & K. Nordlund. A Survey To Identify Economic Opportunities For Small holder Dairy Farms in Bangladesh. Revised and submitted to Tropical Animal Health and Production Nov 2004.

R. Klos, C. Eisele, T. Bennett, G. Frank, and W.J.Goodger. Use of a standardized form for partial budget analyses to assess the feasibility and efficiency of interventions in family poultry operations in 11 African countries. Technical document (Tech Doc) entitled; Assessment of the effectiveness of vaccination strategies against Newcastle disease and Gumboro disease using immunoassay-based technologies for increasing farmyard poultry production in Africa. Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria; May 24-28, 2004:

N. Cook, C. Eisele, R. Klos, T. Bennett, S. McGuirk, W.J. Goodger, G. Oetzel, and K.Nordlund. A Coordinated Teaching Program for Future Dairy Practitioners at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School Of Veterinary Medicine. JVME 31(4) 2004. pp 369-376.

Corrigendum to A linear programming assessment of the profit from strategies to reduce the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus mastitis. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 33 (1998) 183-193. Error in LP program. Role- Re-analysis and rewrite paper. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 1463 (2000)1-11.

Garcia, M., W.J. Goodger, T. Bennett, B.M.A.O. Perera. Use of a standardized protocol to identify factors affecting the efficiency of artificial insemination services for cattle through progesterone measurement in fourteen countries. Radioimmunoassay & related techniques to improve AI programs for cattle reared under Tropical and Subtropical conditions. Technical document # 1220, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Uppsala, Sweden; May 10-14, 1999:173-184.

Buelow, K., Goodger, W.J., Collins, M., Clayton, M., Nordlund, K., and Thomas, C.B. A model to determine sampling strategies and milk innoculum volume for detection of intramammary Staphylococcus infections in dairy cattle by bacteriological culture. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 25 (1996) 343-355.

Buelow, K., Thomas, C.B., Goodger, W.J., Nordlund, K., and Collins, M. Effect of milk sample collection strategy on the sensitivity and specificity of bacteriologic culture and somatic cell count for detection of Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infections in dairy cattle. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 26 (1996) 1-8.

Goodger, W.J., Collins, M., Nordlund, K., Eisele, C., Pelletier, J., Thomas, C., and Sockett, D. Epidemiological study of on-farm management practices associated with the prevalence of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis infections in dairy cattle. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. (1996) 208(11):1877-1881.

Nordlund, K., Goodger, W.J., Pelletier, J., and Collins, M. Associations between subclinical paratuberculosis and milk production, milk components, and somatic cell counts in dairy herds. Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association (1996)208(11):1872-1876.

Goodger, W.J., Frank, G., Nordlund, K.V., Hilbelink, B., and Eisele, C. Financial assessment of results of intervention to correct housing-system problem on a dairy farm. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (1996) 209(8):1406-1411.

Zepeda, L., Buelow, K., Nordlund, K., Thomas, C.B., Collins, M., and Goodger, W.J. A linear programming assessment of the profit from strategies to reduce the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus mastitis. Preventive Veterinary Medicine (1997).