Dr. Bob Larson received his DVM from Kansas State University in 1987 and a Ph.D from the KSU Department of Animal Sciences in 1992. He spent five years in private practice and then 10 years at the University of Missouri. In 2006 he returned to Kansas State University as the Coleman Chair of Food Animal Production Medicine where his teaching and research focuses on beef cattle production and health. He is board certified by the American College of Theriogenologists, the American College of Animal Nutrition, and the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine – Epidemiology specialty.

Bob was first exposed to evidence-based medicine through interaction with colleagues and books such as: Where’s the Evidence – Debates in Modern Medicine by William Silverman (Oxford University Press, 1998), and Evidence-Based Medicine 2^nd Ed by Sackett, Straus, Richardson, Rosenberg, and Haynes (Churchill Livingstone, 2000). At about the same time, others in veterinary medicine were also becoming interested in evidence-based medicine and the first Symposium on Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine was hosted by the College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University in 2004. From that initial meeting, a Steering Committee for Evidence Based Veterinary Medicine was formed and Bob was the Chair for 2005-2006. Shortly after, Bob was a charter member of The Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine Association and served as the first president of the organization from 2006 to 2008 and currently serves on the Board of Directors. 

Articles/Textbook chapters:

R.L. Larson and V.R. Fajt. Evidence-based veterinary medicine – therapeutic considerations. In: Current Veterinary Therapy: Food Animal Practice, volume 5. D.E. Anderson and D. M. Rings (Ed.). Sanders Elsevier, St. Louis. 2008: 489-493.

R.L. Larson, B.J. White. Importance of the role of the scientific literature in clinical decision making. J Am Vet Med Assoc 247:58-64, 2015. https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.247.1.58

B.J. White, R.L. Larson. Systematic evaluation of scientific research for appropriateness of data analysis to improve clinical decision making.  J Am Vet Med Assoc 247:759-762, 2015. https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.247.7.759

R.L. Larson, B.J. White. First steps to efficient use of the scientific literature in veterinary practice. J Am Vet Med Assoc 247:254-258, 2015. https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.247.3.254

B.J. White, R.L. Larson. Systematic evaluation of scientific research for clinical relevance and control of bias to improve clinical decision making. J Am Vet Med Assoc 247:496-500, 2015. https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.247.5.496