Faculty

As a board-certified veterinary dermatologist, my clinical and research interests center on the mechanisms and management of naturally occurring skin diseases in animals. My current projects focus on understanding how and why itch, allergy, and skin cancers occur in dogs, cats, and horses. The ultimate goal of my work is to improve patient care, animal welfare, and treatment outcomes for animals living with chronic skin disease.

Research interests: Veterinary nutrition, nutrition for dogs and cats, dietary mineral safety, exotic pet nutrition, critical care nutrition, pet nutrition trends, and pet food nutritional adequacy and safety.

Research Interests: My research focuses on North American waterfowl, which are among the best studied group of birds in the world and a model system in ecology and conservation. I am interested in linking individual-level processes to population- and community-level outcomes that are relevant to waterfowl management.

Research: Environmental regulation of avian annual cycles of behavior, physiology and morphology; behavioral and physiological responses of birds to unpredictable environmental events. Interfaces of behavior, endocrine and neuroendocrine physiology, ecology, and evolution. Specifically environmental regulation of avian annual schedules of reproduction, plumage molt and migration; scheduling tradeoffs between current reproduction and survival (future reproduction); evolution of mechanisms of responses to environmental cues such as day length, food, social factors; effects of unpredictable environmental events on behavior and physiology of free-living birds. Avian communication, especially use of heterospecific mimicry in song, and learned non-song vocalizations.

My research interests and expertise are in regenerative medicine and improving equine field medicine practice, and my research seeks to better understand regenerative medicine modalities' clinical performance and to improve equine field medicine by evaluating clinical practice questions through research. My clinical focus is equine preventative medicine, management of equine metabolic diseases, and ophthalmology. As an educator I seek to promote mental health and wellness in the veterinary profession.

My research focuses on the genetics of complex traits in livestock, multi-omics prediction, and the genome-by-microbiome interaction.

Emerging diseases, immune development and sex differences in ruminants; development/assessment of herd level preventative measures for infectious disease.

Research interests: Animal Behavior, Neurobiology, Stress Physiology, Human-Animal Interactions, Ecological Medicine, Green Care, Care Farming

I am a veterinarian with epidemiology and biostatistical training and my specialty where I practice my training is in dairy cattle health and welfare. My lab, the Dairy Epi Lab