DR. ROBERT E. BRAY is a consulting animal nutritionist and scientist for E.T. Horn’s Animal Wellness Division (La Mirada CA). His specialization in animal nutrition includes horses, companion animals and zoo animals; his 27 years of academia at three universities have integrated all three missions of research, teaching, and extension/outreach. Dr. Bray is a Professor Emeritus of the Animal & Veterinary Sciences Department from California State Polytechnic University – Pomona; he recently retired (Sept 2009) as a professor and associate chair. He received his Ph.D. in animal nutrition and M.S. in animal reproduction from the University of Maryland and conducted his Ph.D. research at USDA’s Beltsville Agriculture Research Center.
Dr. Bray has been actively involved in the animal industries for over 20 years. He has provided consultation to international, national & regional companies, manufactures, veterinarians, and ranches. His guidance has included technical services, developing & formulating new products, addressing nutritionally related diseases & management problems, marketing strategies, business plans, and training sales staff. As a nutritional consultant, the animal feed products that he has developed and formulated are commercially provided by companies that serve the horse, companion and zoo animal industries. His expertise and success as a consulting nutritionist has centered on sound, nutritional management and feeding practices.
In addition to being a professor, university administrator, and nutritional consultant, Dr. Bray has conducted research with the giant panda, tigers, wild equids, exotic birds and domestic horses & mules. For 15 years he tracked and conducted research with wild horses and through his mule-packing educational trips in the High Sierra Mountains, he conducted studies on the effects of high altitude on horses and mules. He also has more than 15 years of nutritional experience with zoo animals including research projects and a sabbatical at the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Wild Animal Park.
Dr. Bray is frequently an invited speaker and is well published in the sciences including three manuals, book chapter, peer review publications, and outreach/extension publications; more than100 total publications. Dr. Bray is recognized for his teaching innovation when he developed, implemented, & coordinated streaming video courses that were shared by four California universities. The upper division animal science courses pooled expertise from each of the four universities and were instructed live (visual & audio) and thus were interactive for students at each campus. Dr. Bray also taught one of the courses for 17 years until his retirement.
Dr. Bray has served on several animal industry boards and continues to serve as an advisor to several groups in the animal industry. Dr. Bray and his wife now live in their home state of Virginia near their children and families. |
