Dr Karlien Supré

Karlien Supré graduated as DVM at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Ghent University in 2006, with a graduate thesis “Prevalence of Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis in Southern Province in Zambia” awarded in the category “therapy and control of infectious diseases”. She started a research on influence of coagulase-negative staphylococci on udder health at the Department Reproduction, Obstetrics, and Herd Health (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University). Meanwhile, she participated in the veterinary ambulatory clinic and as an advisor on udder health on dairy farms and was, through a development project, involved in the initiation of a milk quality lab in Jimma University, Ethiopia. Her PhD thesis, “Intramammary infections with coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species in bovines”, was successfully defended in October 2011.

Since September 2011, Karlien Supré is employed at the Flanders Milk Control Centre (MCC). She is consultant on udder health and milk quality and performs visits on problem herds through Flanders, she gives lectures for dairy farmers as well as veterinarians on this topic and on prudent use of antimicrobials and cooperates in multiple projects. Since 2016, she is head of the herd consultancy department of MCC. Next to herd consultancy, she keeps the bacteriological laboratory updated by implementation of new methods as real time PCR and automated reading of antimicrobial susceptibility testing. She is (co-) author of several national and international publications. She is part of the board of the Flemish Buiatrics organisation, and of the Belgian National Committee of the International Dairy Federation (IDF).