David G. Renter

Professor, Epidemiology
Director, Center for Outcomes Research and Epidemiology
The Dr. Robert MacDonald Professor of Veterinary Medicine
Fellow, Conference of Researchers in Animal Disease

BS (1994), University of Nebraska at Kearney
DVM (1998), Kansas State University
PhD (2002), Kansas State University

Phone: (785)532-4801
Email: drenter@vet.ksu.edu

Research

My research emphasizes the application and extension of epidemiologic principles and methods to enhance animal health, food safety and security, and related impacts on human health. By utilizing appropriate experimental, observational, and synthesis research methods, my outcomes-focused research enables valid data-driven decisions that improve animal health/well-being, food safety, production efficiency, sustainability, and economic viability of animal health systems. My recent research is primarily focused on applying epidemiologic approaches to generate industry-relevant knowledge that is used to address complex and contemporary problems in the beef industry. As the Director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Epidemiology, I am engaged in strategic development and implementation of research and training initiatives that enhance a wide-range of population health programs.

Instruction and Mentoring

I teach, mentor, and enable students to develop sustainable knowledge, skills and abilities so that they can solve current and future challenges in their professional roles. I emphasize scientific validity, research integrity, and evidence-based health management decisions. My primary teaching role is to develop and deliver professional and graduate student training in epidemiology, particularly as it relates to animal health and food safety. In addition to creating and delivering continuing education and advanced graduate student training, I have taught clinical epidemiology and population health management to professional students every year since becoming faculty, and have advised DVM, MPH, MS, and PhD students.

Selected Publications

Renter DG, Sargeant JM, O’Connor AM, Ruple A. Aligning valid research outcomes with stakeholder values—what do they need for decision-making? Front Vet Sci. 2024 Sep 11;11:1444023. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1444023

Ruple A, Sargeant JM, O’Connor AM, Renter DG. Exposure variables in veterinary epidemiology: are they telling us what we think they are? Front Vet Sci. 2024 Jul 30;11:1442308. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1442308

Horton LM, Hardee I, Meyer NF, Renter DG. A randomized trial comparing the effects of tulathromycin, tildipirosin and gamithromycin used as first treatment for clinical bovine respiratory disease in commercial feedlot steers. Bov Pract. 2024 Jun 21;58(2):43-50. doi: https://bovine-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/bovine/article/view/9022

Perkins-Oines S, Senevirathne ND, Krafsur GM, Abdelsalam K, Renter DG, Meyer B, Chase CCL. The Detection of Vaccine Virus and Protection of a Modified Live, Intranasal, Trivalent Vaccine in Neonatal, Colostrum-Fed Calves with an Experimental Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus Challenge. Pathogens. 2024 June 19;13(6):517. doi: 10.3390/pathogens13060517

Sargeant JM, O’Connor AM, Renter DG, Ruple A. What question are we trying to answer? Embracing causal inference. Front Vet Sci. 2024 May 21;11:1402981. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1402981

McAtee TB, Renter DG, Murphy T, Betts NB, Depenbusch BE. Cattle, carcass, economic, and estimated emission impacts of feeding finishing steers lubabegron or ractopamine hydrochloride. Transl Anim Sci. 2024 Mar 08; txae031. doi: 10.1093/tas/txae031

Horton LM, Depenbusch BE, Schroeder TC, Pendell DL, Streeter MN, Hutcheson JP, Renter DG. Impacts of economic factors influencing net returns of beef feedlot heifers administered two implant programs and fed for differing days-on-feed from pooled randomized controlled trials. Transl Anim Sci. 2024 Feb 20; txae021. doi: 10.1093/tas/txae021

Wisnieski L, Sanderson MW, Renter DG, Bello NM. Inferential implications of normalizing binomial proportions in a structural equation model: A simulation study motivated by feedlot data. Prev Vet Med. 2023 Aug;217:105963. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.105963.

Kipp K, Cummings DB, Goehl D, Wade HH, Davidson JM, Renter DG, Verocai GG, Rash L. Evaluation of a refugia-based strategy for gastrointestinal nematodes on weight gain and fecal egg counts in naturally infected stocker calves administered combination anthelmintics. Vet Parasitol. 2023 Jul;319:109955. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2023.109955.

Horton LM, Depenbusch BE, Dewsbury DM, McAtee TB, Betts NM, Renter DG. Comprehensive outcomes affected by antimicrobial metaphylaxis of feedlot calves at medium-risk for bovine respiratory disease from a randomized controlled trial. Vet Sci. 2023 Jan 17;10(2):67. doi: 10.3390/vetsci10020067.

Szasz JI, Bryant TC, Bryant LK, Streeter MN, Hutcheson JP, Renter DG. Health and performance outcomes from a randomized clinical trial of post-metaphylactic intervals following tildipirosin metaphylaxis for control of naturally occurring bovine respiratory disease in commingled light-weight yearling steers in a commercial feedlot. Bov Pract. 2022 Dec 29;56(2):38-46. https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol56no2p38-46.

Horton LM, Depenbusch BE, Holland BP, Word AB, Streeter MN, Hutcheson JP, Renter DG. A randomized trial and multi-site pooled trial analyses comparing effects of two hormonal implant programs and differing days-on-feed on carcass characteristics and feedlot performance of beef heifers. Transl Anim Sci. 2022 Dec 13;7(1):txac162. doi: 10.1093/tas/txac162.

Dewsbury DMA, Renter DG, Bradford BJ, DeDonder KD, Mellencamp M, Cernicchiaro N. The application, value, and impact of outcomes research in animal health and veterinary medicine. Front Vet Sci. 2022 Nov 29;9:972057. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.972057.

Dixon AL, Hanthorn CJ, Pendell DL, Cernicchiaro N, Renter DG. Economic assessments from experimental research trials of feedlot cattle health and performance: a scoping review. Transl Anim Sci. 2022 Jun 6;6(3):txac077. doi: 10.1093/tas/txac077.

Wisnieski L, Amrine DE, Renter DG. Predictive Models for Weekly Cattle Mortality after Arrival at a Feeding Location Using Records, Weather, and Transport Data at Time of Purchase. Pathogens. 2022 Apr 15;11(4):473. doi: 10.3390/pathogens11040473.

Renter DG, Dodd CC, Noll LW, Nagaraja TG, Ives SE. Coliform and Escherichia coli Contamination on External and Internal Surfaces of Beef Carcasses with and without Tissue Adhesion Excision. J Food Prot. 2022 Apr 1;85(4):701-705. doi: 10.4315/JFP-21-426.

Cernicchiaro N, Oliveira ARS, Hanthorn C, Renter DG. Outcomes research: origins, relevance and potential impacts for veterinary medicine. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2022 Jan 28;260(7):714-723. doi: 10.2460/javma.21.06.0318.