Daan Dercksen, DVM, Dip.ECRSHM, graduated with merit in 1987 from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is registered as Specialist in Small Ruminant Health Care, according to the Dutch system of specialization. From December 1987 to March 1990, he worked in general practice in Germany and the Netherlands. From 1990 onwards, he has been working as small ruminant specialist at the department of Small Ruminant Health, GD Deventer (GD- Animal Health Service Deventer, the Netherlands). During the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in The Netherlands in 2001, he was head of different vaccination centers in the Netherlands. From 2004 to 2006, he participated in pre-accession projects and twinning projects in Hungary, Slovakia and Romania: identification and registration of small ruminants, health schemes and scrapie monitoring. In 2006, he was a member of the specialist team first to diagnose bluetongue in the Netherlands. Currently, together with his colleagues at GD Deventer, he is organizing the Q-fever vaccination campaign in small ruminants in the Netherlands. You will find peer reviewed and general publications from his hand from a wide range of small ruminant topics.