Dr. Pierdon is a veterinarian that engages in teaching veterinary medicine, research on swine welfare, and disease mapping for the swine and poultry industry through the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.
She received her BA (Biology) at Wellesley College in 2001, her VMD (Veterinary Medicine) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, 2005. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Animal Welfare and holds a Clinical Certificate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvanial.
Dr. Pierdon's clinical interests include using geospatial information to map poultry and swine locations, share information about disease status, and strategize community approaches to disease control. Research interests include practical aspects of food animal welfare such as sow lameness, investigating strategies to improve welfare when mixing sows into groups, and novel modalities for diagnostic sample collection for sows gestating in pens.