Dr. Lombard grew up in Colorado and spent his early years on his family’s cattle ranch. After obtaining his DVM from CSU, he practiced primarily dairy cattle medicine in Wisconsin for almost 10 years.  He returned to CSU and completed a master’s degree in epidemiology while working for USDA’s National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS). He coordinated multiple National studies, primarily focused on the dairy industry. While with USDA, he also participated on an Incident Management Team and was deployed for multiple cattle and poultry diseases during his 20-year federal career. Dr. Lombard moved to CSU in 2023. Since April of 2024, he has spent most of his time working to better understand HPAI in dairy cattle.