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Small Animal Medicine and Surgery

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Medicine
Dermatology

Ophthalmology
Exotics
Oncology
Community Practice
Emergency/Critical Care
Anesthesia
Surgery

Medicine

 

Scott A. Brown, VMD, PhD, DACVIM
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and Department Head

 

Clay A. Calvert, DVM, DACVIM
Professor
Cardiomyopathy in Doberman pinschers; general internal medicine; cardiology

 

Kate E. Creevy, DVM, DACVIM
Assistant Professor
Infectious diseases and immunology, general internal medicine, toxicology

 

Steffen Sum, DVM
Instructor
General internal medicine; infectious diseases, nephrology/urology

   

Cynthia Ward, VMD, PhD, DACVIM
Associate Professor
General endocrinology, feline hyperthyroidism, general internal medicine

 


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Dermatology

 

Michaela Austel, DVM
Assistant Professor
Parasitic and allergic skin disease

 

Patrick Hensel, Dr. med. Vet, DACVD
Assistant Professor
Allergic skin diseases, Allergy testing

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Ophthalmology

 

Ursula Dietrich, Dr.vet.med, DACVO, DECVO
Associate Professor
Ocular ultrasonography

 

P. Anthony Moore, DVM, BS, DACVO
Associate Professor
Hypertensive retinopathy

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Exotic Animal, Wildlife & Zoological Medicine

 

Christine Fiorello, DVM, PhD, MS, DACZM
Assistant Professor
Disease ecology, conservation medicine, carnivore conservation, immobilization and pain management in nondomestic species

 

Stephen Hernandez-Divers, BVetMed, CBiol MIBiol, DZooMed, MRCVS, DACZM
Associate Professor
Medical & surgical diseases of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, exotic mammals (including carnivores and primates), & wildlife species

 

Branson Ritchie, DVM, MS, PhD, DABVP, ECAMS
Professor
Viral disease, particularly the development of diagnostic tests and vaccines (examples are Beak and Feather Disease, avian polyoma virus, and proventricular dilation syndrome)

 

Chris Gregory, DVM, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Molecular and pathologic studies of avian and exotic animal diseases, research and development of diagnostic tests and vaccines

     

Paula Ciembor, DVM, PhD

Assistant Research Scientist
   

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Neurology

 

Marc Kent, DVM, BS, DACVIM
Assistant Professor
Neurologic diseases of small animals

 

Simon Platt , BVM&S, DAVCIM, DECVN, RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Neurology
Associate Professor
Brain tumors, cerebrovascular disease, and head traumas

   

Scott Schatzberg, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Assistant Professor
Inherited neurological diseases of dogs and cats &
meningoencephalitis of small breed dogs

   

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Oncology

 

Nicole Northrup, DVM, BS, DACVIM
Associate Professor
Genetic predisposition to cancer; cancer therapy

 

Corey Saba, DVM, DACVIM
Assistant Professor

     
     

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Community Practice

 

 

Kathy Kero, DVM, BS
Clinical Instructor
Dentistry

 



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Emergency/Critical Care

 

Ben Brainard, VMD, DACVA, DACVECC
Assistant Professor
Management and anesthesia of critically ill patients, mechanical ventilation, thrombosis, platelet function testing and thrombelastography, and fish anesthesia

 

Diana Burger, DVM
Veterinary Educational Specialist

   

Amie Koenig, DVM, BS, DACVIM, DACVECC
Assistant Professor
General internal medicine, critical care, endocrinology

   

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Anesthesia

 

Jennifer Adams, DVM

 

Juliana Figueiredo, BVM, MS

   

Erik Hofmeister, DVM, BS, DACVA
Assistant Professor
Cardiopulmonary critical care, medical decision making, evidence-based medicine, opthalomologic anesthesia

   

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Surgery

 

Sheila Allen, DVM, MS, DACVS
Dean
General surgery; oncology; reconstructive surgery; peroperative analgesia

 

Steve Budsberg, DVM, BS, MS, DACVS
Professor
Fracture repair; antibiotic delivery to bone infections; computer-assisted gait analysis; joint disease

 

Jon Chambers, DVM, DACVS
Professor
Fracture repair; hip disease diagnosis and surgery; reconstructive surgergy, especially use of vascularized muscle grafts; lumbosacral disease diagnosis and surgery

 

Karen Cornell, DVM, PhD, DACVS
Associate Professor, Chief of Staff of Surgery
Surgical oncology; tumor biology; wound healing and reconstructive surgery

 

Spencer Johnston, DVM, DACVS
Gunst Professor
Osteoarthritis, joint injury, joint replacement, fracture repair, NSAIDs, pain management


 

MaryAnn Radlinsky, DVM, MS, DACVS
Associate Professor
Abdominal and thoracic surgery; minimally invasive surgery

 

Chad Schmiedt, DVM, DACVS
Instructor
General surgery; urinary, vascular, and oncologic surgery

 

Michael Weh, DVM, DACVS
Assistant Professor
Fracture repair, spinal surgery, arthroscopy

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