Andrew Niehaus
DVM, MS, Diplomate, ACVS-large animal, Vernon L. Tharp Professor in Food Animal Medicine / Service Head, Farm Animal Medicine and Surgery
Expertise
- Ruminant surgery
- Dental disease of camelids
- Orthopedic surgery of cattle
- GI surgery of cattle
- Spastic Paresis in cattle
- Urolithiasis in goats
- Bladder and urethral surgery
Dr. Andy Niehaus is a professor and service head of Farm Animal Surgery at The Ohio State University. He grew up in West Virginia on his family’s beef farm, and graduated from West Virginia University in 1999 with a degree in chemical engineering. He became a Buckeye in 1999 when he enrolled in the OSU College of veterinary medicine. Following graduation in 2003, he remained at OSU and completed an internship and residency in farm animal surgery, and he has remained at OSU as faculty since.
He is a member of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, The Ohio Veterinary Medical Association, and The American College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is faculty advisor to the OSU chapters of the Food Animal Club, the pre-vet club, and Christian Veterinary Fellowship. He enjoys teaching the next generation of veterinarians and for the past three years has been on the curriculum revision team at Ohio State where they are instituting a brand-new veterinary curriculum. In 2022 he completed an editorship of the newest edition of Medicine and Surgery of Camelids. He and his wife, Laurie, have two children, Hannah and Zach, and they live on a small farm just northwest of Columbus, Ohio.