About MQ-IQ
Roger S. Thomson, D.V.M.
Dr. Thomson grew up on a dairy farm in southern Michigan where he learned the ethic of hard work and the challenges that face dairy owners & managers. He has been a practicing dairy veterinarian since 1979, working in Ohio and Michigan with clients ranging from 30 to 3,500 cows.
After nine years as an associate veterinarian in two different practices, Dr. Thomson launched Team Management Concepts in 1988, his own, all-dairy practice. He included milking system evaluation and milk quality consulting as a specialty within his dairy practice.
Dr. Thomson launched his second business, MQ-IQ Consulting, LLC in 2011 to separate his milk quality consulting from his routine dairy veterinary work. In 2016 he sold Team Management Concepts allowing him to spend 100% of his time providing milk quality consulting for individual farms and corporate customers throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Dr. Thomson designed and built The Teaching Parlor®, the first portable milking system simulator of its kind in 2011. He uses it several times each year to train dairy professionals to correctly perform ISO/NMC airfow analysis on milking parlors.
In addition to Dr. Thomson’s milk quality consulting through MQ-IQ, he began teaching at Michigan State University in 2017, as a dairy management instructor and the coach of the Dairy Challenge team. In 2019 a joint appointment in the College of Veterinary Medicine was added to his portfolio.
In 2020 Dr. Thomson received the annual Boehringer Ingelheim AABP Award for Excellence in Preventive Veterinary Medicine – Dairy Cattle.
The MQ-IQ Mission
Advocate, Achieve, Aspire, Accept, Advance
Advocate for all dairy animals to achieve the goal of “What is Best for Them”
Achieve a quality milk harvest for every lactating animal, every milking, every day
Aspire for excellence in all parlor audits and training sessions
Accept responsibility to help supply highly digestible dairy proteins to an ever-increasing global population
Advance the reputation of veterinary medicine in caring for all creatures great and small