Claire Andreasen, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor and Chair
Department of Veterinary Pathology
2764 College of Veterinary Medicine
515.294.0877
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Dr. Claire Andreasen received her DVM degree from Texas A&M in 1982, was an associate veterinarian from 1982-1985, and then completed a pathology residency, MS (1987) and PhD (1990) from the University of Georgia, Department of Veterinary Pathology, and board certification as a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP). Dr. Andreasen was a faculty member at Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine before coming to the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1996. She is currently a Department Chair, Professor, and Pathology Laboratory Director. She has authored or co-authored 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, 70 abstracts and proceedings, 18 book chapters, was section editor for 2 textbooks, and on the board of scientific reviewers for journals. She received the Pfizer Award for Research Excellence in 1994, and Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association Clinical Sciences Teaching Award in 2001. Her areas of expertise include host-cell interactions during infectious diseases, especially in poultry, and clinical pathology and diagnostic pathology education.
Dušan Palić, DVM, PhD
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Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Sciences 2036 College of Veterinary Medicine 515.294.0877  Iowa State Faculty Webpage |
Dr. Dušan Palić received his DVM and MS degrees in Veterinary Preventive Medicine from Belgrade University, Serbia, and PhD in Immunobiology and Fisheries Biology at Iowa State. Dr. Palić is an assistant professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, and affiliated with Departments of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine and Natural Resources Ecology and Management. He served as a veterinary specialist in aquatic animal medicine for the Center for Food Security and Public Health from 2005 to 2007, and is now affiliated faculty involved in developing National Veterinary Accreditation Plan modules for aquatic animal medicine and collaborative research projects. Dušan does research and teaching in areas of innate immunology of fish, mammals, and birds; aquatic animal health; and ecosystem health. Current projects in his lab include: dietary immunomodulation of β-glucans and yeast compounds in fish; neutrophil extracellular trap formation in fish, birds and mammals; heterophil function in chickens exposed to Salmonella infection; effects of tulathromycin on bovine neutrophils; development of zebrafish fluorescent neutrophil research model; effects of field runoff to neutrophil function in fish and development of GIS flow path analysis model; and stress effects on immunology of fish species of special concern. Teaching duties include AEcl/VDPAM 401 Introduction to Aquatic Animal Medicine, and HON322A Concepts of Ecosystem Health.
Christine Petersen, DVM, PhD
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Assistant Professor Department of Veterinary Pathology 2714 College of Veterinary Medicine 515.294.9013  Iowa State Faculty Webpage |
Dr. Petersen received her DVM from Cornell University in 1998. While in veterinary school she spent a summer as a research scientist at the International Livestock research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, studying African Trypanosomiasis and was a paid consultant to the Division of Parasitic Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control, establishing a treatment protocol for HIV patients co-infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. After a year of small animal practice she was offered a position at the Harvard School of Public Health to pursue the PhD. Her research has focused on host-pathogen interactions of tropical zoonotic protozoal diseases. While at HSPH she worked as a post-doctoral fellow on the pathogenesis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in heart muscle cells. Her current work at ISU continues investigation of host-pathogen interactions, specifically the interaction of host dendritic cells, important in establishing a productive immune response, with the parasite Leishmania amazonensis. She has been affiliated with the staff of CFSPH since 2004.
Darrell Trampel, DVM, PhD
Professor; Poultry Extension Veterinarian
Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and
Production
Animal Medicine
Rm 9, Bldg 1, VMRI
515.294.0710
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Eldon Uhlenhopp, DVM, MS
Associate Dean for Outreach and Operation; Professor
Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and
Production
Animal Medicine
2248 College of Veterinary Medicine
515.294.2539
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Michael J. Wannemuehler, PhD
Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
1118 College of Veterinary Medicine
515.294.3270
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