Dr. G. Donald Ritter
Director of health services
Mountaire Farms Inc.

Dr. G. Donald Ritter has been the director of health services for Mountaire Farms Inc., a large U.S. broiler integrator, since 1995. He is currently the chairman of National Chicken Council’s Poultry Health Committee, president of the Association of Veterinarians in Broiler Production, chairman of Delmarva Poultry Industry’s Poultry Health Committee, and is a member at large representative on the General Conference Committee for the National Poultry Improvement Plan.

Dr. Ritter has conducted both basic and applied research on the causes and prevention of Gangrenous dermatitis in broilers. His research points to an “inside out” origin for Gangrenous dermatitis.

Dr. Ritter is an adjunct professor at University of Delaware. He received a certificate of avian medicine internship at North Carolina State University and his DVM from the University of Missouri. Dr. Ritter is a Diplomat of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians.

Dr. Steven Davis
President, CEO, and CO
Colorado Quality Research

Dr. Steve Davis received his B.S. in Agriculture and Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Kansas State University.  He also completed an Avian Medicine Internship at North Carolina State University and became a Diplomate of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians in 1993.  He has held positions in the commercial broiler industry as the Director of Quality and Health Services with Gold’n Plump Poultry and the Director of Technical Services for Simmons Foods.  He then served for 7 years as the Director of Technical Services-Poultry for the Animal Health Division of Roche and then held the position of Director of the Global Poultry Business Unit for Fort Dodge Animal Health.   His career history provides unique and valuable experience in commercial poultry production in assisting in protocol design and challenge models for applied poultry research.

For over 12 years and currently, Steve manages and owns Colorado Quality Research, Inc. of Wellington, CO and serves as the company’s President and CEO.  CQR is a contract poultry and swine research company that has served the industry since 1980 that has specialized in poultry and swine nutrition and health research.  The company uses three research sites with a vast amount and varied capacity that range from 224 floor pens (total of ~1,000 pens available) to 1-11 room BSL-2 facilities.  Research areas include GLP and GCP studies, disease challenge models (Mycoplasma, C. perfringens, E. coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter, coccidiosis and others) in ovo, drinking water, aerosol and feed treatments for measuring impacts on performance (weight gain and feed to gain) and environmental treatments such as litter treatments.