Dr. Gary Oetzel
Dr. Gary Oetzel is a professor emeritus from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught food animal production medicine to dairy-oriented veterinary medical students for 33 years. He earned his DVM in 1981 from The Ohio State University and a MS from the University of Illinois in 1985. He was a faculty member at Colorado State University and a dairy practitioner in northeast Wisconsin before joining the faculty at UW-Madison in 1989. He helped start and then advised the Christian Veterinary Mission Fellowship student organization. He led six short-term missions trips to Ecuador with veterinary medical students and practicing veterinarians. Since his retirement in 2022, he devotes most of his time to helping lead his local church in Madison. He enjoys playing guitar, leading worship, traveling with family, and pursuing his interest in landscape photography. He and his wife Sonja have two grown daughters.