Dr. Pudjiatmoko, DVM., PhD is a veterinarian who currently serves as Senior Veterinary Officer at Directorate of Animal Health, Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health Services, Ministry of Agriculture, Indonesia. He studied in Veterinary Medicine Faculty at Bogor Agriculture University, Bogor Indonesia from 1978 to 1983, then continued his study for Doctor of Philosophy degree in Applied Vetrerinary Scince at The United Graduate School of Veterinary Science, Gifu University, Japan from 1993 to 1997.
He began his career as a researcher in National Veterinary Drug Assay Laboratory (NVDAL) who performed assay on Bacterial vaccine quality and conducted some studies to improve the methods from 1986 to 2002. Then he was promoted to be a Head of Bacterial Vaccine Assay Unit at NVDAL until 2005. Later he was sent to Japan to take a responsibility as an Agricultural Attaché at Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, Tokyo from 2005 to 2009. After his return from Japan, he was trusted to be the Director of NVDAL from 2009 to 2010, then promoted to be the Director of animal health, Ministry of Agriculture from 2010 to 2015.
His main interests are in veterinary and zoonotic disease. His background as biology molecular researcher, has encouraged him publishing many papers nationally and internationally that giving more focus on biology molecular study on Chlamydia. He has registered 16 S rRNA gene of 25 strains of Chlamydophila and Chlamydia to DNA Data Bank of Japan as part of his study. His studies are not limited only in bacterial diseases but also in viral diseases such as Avian Influenza, Rabies, Egg Drop Syndrom, Newcastle Disease and Infectious Bursal Disease.
He has been actively as a member of Indonesian Veterinary Medical Association, Indonesian Society for Agricultural Biotechnology, Veterinary Drug Evaluation Committee and Veterinary Drug Expert Commision.
Veterinary and Zoonotic disease; Molecular biology.