Full Name
Jenny Nicholds
Job Title
Clinical Associate Professor, Avian Medicine
Company/Organization
University of Georgia
Speaker Bio
Jenny Nicholds is a clinical associate professor of avian medicine and the director of the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Centers diagnostic lab, in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia. Her interests include poultry parasites and metabolic disease. Before making a move to Athens, Dr. Nicholds worked as the Poultry Extension Veterinarian at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, and as a Veterinarian with Poultry Health Services Ltd., in Alberta, Canada. She has won the American Association of Avian Pathologist’s award for best field case/diagnostic report in 2017 and 2018, and loves a good case report. Nicholds earned her bachelor’s in agriculture from the University of Alberta, Canada. She followed this with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, and Master’s of Avian Medicine (MAM) at UGA. When she is not in the lab or in a poultry barn, she and her husband enjoy restoring vintage airstream travel trailers under the close supervision of their two young ‘project managers’.
Jenny Nicholds