Dr. Trevisan obtained his DVM diploma in the veterinary faculty of Lages, in the state Santa Catharina, Brazil in 2009, and an MBA in business enterprises in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 2013. From 2010 until 2017, he worked as full-time veterinarian for JBS foods in an integrated system with emphasis on swine animal health and production management. From 2017 until 2020, he did his PhD at Iowa State University under the supervision of the prof. Linhares. The title of his thesis was: “Improvement of monitoring and surveillance systems for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in the United States swine industry”. Since 2020, he is a post-doc research associate in the Veterinary Diagnostic and Population Animal Medicine Centre at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa US. His focusses on applied use of veterinary diagnostic test results and epidemiology concepts to make informed decisions for disease prevention and control.