Department of Veterinary Small Animal Clinical Sciences
Head: Jonathan M. Levine
The Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences has three major missions: leading edge patient and client care, transformational learning, and clinical research. Each of these activities is intended to improve the quality of life for companion animals and their owners. Faculty and staff in the department participate in all four years of the professional curriculum, although most interactions with students occur in the third and fourth years. The department offers a one-year internship program for the newly graduated veterinarians, and three-year and four-year residency programs in several clinical disciplines for veterinarians seeking advanced training and board certification. Faculty and staff frequently contribute to continuing education programs and may teach and mentor students earning the interdepartmental graduate degrees in Biomedical Sciences offered by the School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.
Scholarly programs of the faculty are centered mainly on the study of the spontaneously occurring diseases of the patients presented to the Small Animal Hospital. Investigative programs are active in aging biology, anesthesiology, animal behavior, cardiology, clinical nutrition, dermatology, feline internal medicine, gastroenterology, general surgery, G.I. Lab, internal medicine, neurology/neurosurgery, oncology, and orthopedic and soft tissue surgery. We also have a growing portfolio of clinical trials aimed at improving animal and human health.
Approximately, 23,500 animals are presented to the Small Animal Hospital for advanced diagnostic procedures and state-of-the-art treatment methods. Faculty, staff, and fourth-year students participate as a team in the care of these patients. Many of these patients are referred from veterinarians throughout Texas and the region, so that they may receive the benefits of the unique expertise and diagnostic and therapeutic technology offered by the Small Animal Hospital.
Aicher, Kathleen, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2012
Atiee, Genna, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2013
August, John, Dean
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BVetMed, University of London, 1973
Baetge, Courtney L, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2003
Barnes, Katherine Hirose, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Oregon State University, 2011
Beaver, Bonnie V, Professor
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DVM, University of Minnesota, 1968
Bennett, Brad S, Clinical Assistant Professor
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PHD, Texas A&M University, 2007
Bilof, Katherine, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2012
Boudreau, Christen E, Associate Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2010
PHD, Baylor College of Medicine, 2001
Collins, Sean, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, 2009
Cook, Audrey K, Professor
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DVM, University of Edinburgh, 1989
Cornell, Karen K, Professor
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DVM, Purdue University, 1988
PHD, Purdue University, 1998
Creevy, Kate E, Professor
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DVM, University of Tennessee, 1998
Davidson, Jacqueline R, Clinical Professor
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DVM, University of Minnesota, 1986
Deveau, Michael A, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Kansas State University, 2005
Dickerson, Vanna, Assistant Professor
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DVM, University of Georgia, 2013
Diesel, Alison B, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Kansas State University, 2005
Dodd, Johnathon R, Clinical Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 1979
Eckman, Stacy L, Associate Dean, Hospital Operations
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2001
Eschmann, Rebecca, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, University of Illinois, 2012
Giaretta, Paula, Clinical Assistant Professor
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PHD, Texas A&M University, 2019
Gordon, Sonya G, Professor
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DVM, University of Guelph, 1994
Gould, Emily, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, University of California at Davis, 2012
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2021
Heatley, Jennifer J, Associate Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 1995
Heinz, Justin A, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, Purdue University, 2012
Heseltine, Johanna C, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, University of Saskatchewan, 1998
Ida, Keila, Clinical Assistant Professor
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BVetM, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, 2006
PHD, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2015
Jeffery, Nicholas D, Professor
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PHD, The University of Cambridge, 1997
Kerwin, Sharon C, Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 1988
Levine, Jonathan M, Professor
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DVM, Cornell University, 2001
Lidbury, Jonathan A, Associate Professor
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BVetM, University of Glasgow, 2002
Loria Lepiz, Mauricio A, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, 2000
Mankin, Joseph M, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 2007
Mankin, Kelley M, Associate Professor
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DVM, University of Missouri at Columbia, 2006
Moreno, Kara, Lecturer
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DVM, University of Minnesota, 2005
MD, University of Minnesota, 2005
Navarrette, Ashley, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2017
Patterson, Adam P, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Mississippi State University, 2001
Peycke, Laura E, Clinical Professor
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DVM, Louisiana State University, 1998
Pilla, Rachel, Research Assistant Professor
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DVM, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 2008
PHD, Universita degli Studi di Milano, 2013
Ray, Erin, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2015
Rutter, Christine R, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Mississippi State University, 2003
Saunders, Ashley B, Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2001
Saunders, William B, Associate Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2001
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2005
Scallan, Elizabeth M, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, 2007
Smith, Lauren, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 2013
Steiner, Joerg M, University Distinguished Professor
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PHD, Texas A&M University, 2000
Suchodolski, Jan, Professor
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PHD, Texas A&M University, 2005
Teller, Lori Massin, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Texas A&M University, 1990
Tolbert, Mary K, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, University of Georgia, 2006
PHD, North Carolina State University, 2013
Vallone, Lucien V, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, Mississippi State University, 2011
Warry, Emma, Clinical Associate Professor
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DVM, The University of Sydney, 2004
Wesselowski, Sonya R, Assistant Professor
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DVM, Kansas State University, 2008
Yankin, Igor, Clinical Assistant Professor
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DVM, Kuban State Agrarian University, 2010
Zoran, Debra L, Professor
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DVM, Kansas State University, 1984
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1997