Dr. Reddy Bommineni 

Southeast Representative, Region 2 (Term: 2025-2026)

Reddy Bommineni,  DVM, MVSc, PhD, DACVM, DACPV Southeast, Region 2

Dr. Reddy Bommineni, DVM, MVSc, PhD, DACVM, DACPV received both a Veterinary and an MS degree from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Hyderabad, India. During the Master’s program, Dr. Bommineni worked on Bluetongue virus isolation, diagnosis, and vaccine development, and was a poultry industry consultant for two years in India.  In 2003, Dr. Bommineni came to the United States and received a PhD from Oklahoma State University. His PhD involved Microbiology and Pathology with a dissertation on “Chicken Cathelicidins as Novel Antibiotics.” After graduate school, Dr. Bommineni received postdoctoral training at Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, in anatomic pathology.  Reddy is a board-certified Poultry Veterinarian (ACPV, American College of Poultry Veterinarians) and has diplomat status with the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists (ACVM) in Immunology and Virology subspecialties.  Before coming to Florida, Reddy worked as section head at the New Mexico State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Albuquerque, and as Poultry Pathologist at Virginia’s Harrisonburg Laboratory, both of which are NAHLN laboratories. 

Dr. Bommineni serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (JVDI) and the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) technical committee.  His interests (apart from diagnostics) are food safety, foreign animal diseases, and veterinary biologicals.  Reddy is also a consulting veterinarian for infectious disease diagnosis and vaccine production in Southeast Asia with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve the economy of poultry farmers in several Southeast Asian countries. Dr. Reddy has firsthand experience in diagnosing and controlling several foreign animal diseases, including foot and mouth disease, highly pathogenic avian influenza, and exotic Newcastle disease.

The Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory made significant progress under his leadership.

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