Michael Dale Lairmore

Bio

Michael D. Lairmore, DVM, PhD is immediate past dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). At UC Davis, he oversaw all the school’s teaching, research and service activities, personnel, facilities and funding resources. He presided over six academic departments, the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System, the Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center in Tulare, Veterinary Medicine Extension, and numerous centers of excellence. As dean, he helped create new programs to expand clinical trials, global programs, and entrepreneurship. Upon his arrival at UCD in 2011, Dean Lairmore led the school on a strategic planning process that enhanced current units, added new programs in faculty, staff, and student leadership, one health, expanded student services including mental health support, created new diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, extended communication, marketing, and development activities. As result the school was named the #1 or #2 institution in the world in veterinary sciences by QS World Rankings, and #1 ranking among veterinary schools/colleges by US News and World Report. Since 2011, he guided the school to record fundraising, raising more than $300 million in 9+ years. He is board certified in veterinary anatomic pathology, virology, and immunology. He is one of the few veterinarians elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is also a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and has received numerous teaching and research awards throughout his career. His research has provided significant breakthroughs in the biology of human retroviruses and the understanding of viral-associated carcinogenesis. He has authored or co-authored 190 scientific publications.