Keith Belk

Dr. Belk is a professor and holder of the Ken & Myra Monfort Endowed Chair in Meat Science with the Center for Meat Safety & Quality, Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, and a Professor in the Colorado School of Public Health. He earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree from CSU, and a PhD from Texas A&M University. He has been employed in the private sector as a buyer by Safeway, Inc., and by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service in Washington, D.C., as an international marketing specialist. At Colorado State University since 1995, he has authored or co-authored 204 refereed scientific journal articles and over 740 total publications, generated more than $19M in external funding, and was the primary inventor on two patents. He served as the state Meat Extension Specialist between 1995 and 2000, on the editorial board for the Journal of Animal Science in 1997-2000, on the board of directors for the American Meat Science Association (AMSA) between 2003-2005, and as president of AMSA in 2009-2010.