Biography

Audrey McElroy is head of the Department of Poultry Science. In addition to her role as department head, she is a professor, conducts intestinal health research through mentoring graduate students, teaches an undergraduate poultry capstone course and provides educational programming for the commercial poultry industry. Her research includes intestinal responses to coccidia and necrotic enteritis and the ability to minimize the impact of these on growth and performance in commercial broilers through management and dietary strategies. She has received over $6 million in external research funding, and in 2019 received the Novus International Scholar’s Award for her research.

She previously was a faculty member in the Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences at Virginia Tech University for 15 years and spent several years on the Poultry Technical Service Team at Merck Animal Health. McElroy has given 43 international invited presentations in 17 countries and 112 invited presentations in the U.S. Her teaching was recognized with the Poultry Science Association Teaching Award in 2011, and in 2014 her extension programs were recognized with the Virginia Poultry Federation Distinguished Service Award.