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Faculty and Administration

Office of the Dean

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Neil C. Olson, DVM, PhD

Dean, School of Veterinary Medicine

Timothy H. Ogilvie, DVM, MSC, LLD, Dipl. ACVIM

Vice Provost, SVM Advancement
Dean Emeritus

Raymond Sis, DVM, PhD, MS

Dean Emeritus

David Hogg, PhD, BVMS, DHLitt

Dean Emeritus

Tom Aire, DVM, PhD, FCVSN, FAS

Associate Dean of Academic Programs
Professor

taire@sgu.edu

Muhammad Iqbal Bhaiyat, PhD

Associate Dean of Students

mibhaiyat@sgu.edu

Rolf Larsen, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT

Associate Dean of Fourth Year Clinical Training
Professor of Theriogenology

RLarsen@sgu.edu

Adria Rodriguez, DVM, MSc

Assistant Dean of Students
Assistant Professor

airodriguez@sgu.edu

Austin Kirwan

Austin Kirwan, MA MBA BVSC MRCVS

Assistant Dean for UK Clinical Affairs

AKirwan@sgu.edu

Gregory Wybern, DVM

Director of Continuing Education
Professor

gwybern@sgu.edu

Chadd Tindall, DVM

Director, Office of Career Guidance

ctindall@sgu.edu

Sherry Bushong, MSc, MA

Coordinator of Curricular and Student Assessment

sbushong@sgu.edu

Catherine Wybern, BS

Instructor, Director of Development

cwybern@sgu.edu

ADJUNCT FACULTY

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Patrick Morgan, DVM, MPH, DrPH, Dipl. ACVPM

Adjunct Professor, Veterinary Public Health

Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology

FACULTY
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Sunil Gupta, BVSc&AH, MVSc

Department Chair - Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology
Professor

sgupta@sgu.edu

Tom Aire, DVM, PhD, FCVSN, FAS

Associate Dean of Academic Programs
Professor

taire@sgu.edu

Arnend Hilberts Werners, DVM, Dipl. ECVP, PhD

Professor

Ulrike Zieger, DrMedVet, MSc

Professor

uzieger@sgu.edu

Mahesh Shriram Deokar, BVSc&AH, MVSc

Associate Professor

MDeokar@sgu.edu

Kamashi Kumar, MVSc, PhD

Associate Professor

kakumar@sgu.edu

Eugene Rennie, DVM, MSc

Associate Professor

erennie@sgu.edu

Hector Zerpa, MV, MS, PhD

Associate Professor

hzerpago@sgu.edu

Melania Crisan, DVM, PhD, MSc

Assistant Professor

MCrisan@sgu.edu

Rhea St. Louis

Instructor

rstloui2@sgu.edu

Crissy-Ann Harrylal, DVM

Instructor

charryl1@sgu.edu

COOPERATING FACULTY MEMBER

Marios Loukas, Dean of Basic Sciences.

Marios Loukas, MD, PhD

Dean of Basic Sciences
Dean of Research
Professor, Anatomical Sciences

mloukas@sgu.edu

Justina Aire, B.Ed, M.Ed, PhD

Assistant Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Adjunct Associate Professor, Preveterinary Program/Leadership Programs

jaire@sgu.edu

Randall Waetcher, BBA, PhD

Joint Professor, Bee Research

rwaechte@sgu.edu

Large Animal Medicine and Surgery

FACULTY
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Catherine Werners-Butler, DVM, DECEIM, PhD, MRCVS

Department Chair - Large Animal Medicine and Surgery
Professor

cwerners@sgu.edu

Heidi Janicke, BVM, PhD, Dipl. ECVS, MRCVS, FHEA

Associate Professor

hjanicke@sgu.edu

Bowen Louison, DVM

Associate Professor

blouison@sgu.edu

Lauren Nicki Wise, DVM, MS, DACVIM

Associate Professor

lwise1@sgu.edu

Inga Emma Karasek, DVM

Assistant Professor

ikarasek1@sgu.edu

Firdous Ahmad Khan, BVSc, MVSc, DVSc, Dipl. ACT

Assistant Professor

fkhan8@sgu.edu

Thireshni Chetty, BVMCh

Instructor

tchetty@sgu.edu

Elizabeth Cooksey, DVM

Instructor

ecookse1@sgu.edu

Zainab Oluwatosin Momoh, DVM, MVPH

Demonstrator

ZMomoh@sgu.edu

Graeme Stratton

Demonstrator

gstratton@sgu.edu

Pathobiology

FACULTY
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Melinda J. Wilkerson, DVM, MSc, PhD, Diplomate ACVP

Department Chair - Pathobiology
Professor

mwilkers@sgu.edu

Muhammad Iqbal Bhaiyat, PhD

Associate Dean of Students

mibhaiyat@sgu.edu

Hugh Ferguson, MRCVS, FRCPath, PhD, Dipl.ACVP

Chair, Pathobiology
Director, Marine Medicine Program
Professor
Senior Research Fellow, WINDREF

hferguso@sgu.edu

Harry Hariharan, DVSM, MSc, PhD

Professor

hhariharan@sgu.edu

Rhonda Pinckney, DVM, PhD, MS

Professor

rpinckney@sgu.edu

Ravindra Sharma, BVSc&AH, PhD, MVSc

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the School of Veterinary Medicine
Associate Director of Research
Professor

rsharma@sgu.edu

Diana Stone, PhD, Dipl.ACVPM, MPH

Professor

dstone@sgu.edu

Brian P. Butler, DVM, MPH, PhD, Dipl. ACVP

Associate Professor, Veterinary Pathology

bbutler@sgu.edu

Sonia Cheetham-Brow, DVM, PhD

Associate Professor

scheetha@sgu.edu

Alfred Chikweto, MSc

Associate Professor

achikweto@sgu.edu

Katherine Gibson, DVM, PhD, MS

Associate Professor

kgibson@sgu.edu

Richard Kabuusu, DVM, MPH

Associate Professor | Research Fellow, WINDREF

rkabuusu@sgu.edu

David Marancik, DVM, PhD, CertAqVet

Associate Professor, Director of the Aquatic Animal Medicine Research Laboratory

dmaranci@sgu.edu

Rohini Roopnarine, DVM MPhil MRCVS

Associate Professor

rroopnarine@sgu.edu

Elizabeth Marie Rush, DVM

Associate Professor

mrush@sgu.edu

Claude De Allie, DVM, Mphil, AFDO

Assistant Professor

cdeallie@sgu.edu

Keshaw Prasad Tiwari, BVSc&AH

Assistant Professor

ktiwari@sgu.edu

Victor Amadi, MSc

Instructor

vamadi@sgu.edu

Camille Coomansingh Springer, MS

Instructor

ccoomansingh@sgu.edu

Bhumika Sharma, MS

Veterinary Teaching Associate

bsharma@sgu.edu

Daniel Fitzpatrick, MS

Demonstrator III

dfitzpat@sgu.edu

Jonnel Edwards, BSc

Aquatic Lab Demonstrator

jedward6@sgu.edu

Leona Roberts, BS

Part-time Demonstrator

lrobert4@sgu.edu


ADJUNCT FACULTY

Satesh Bidaisee, DVM, MSPH, EdD

Assistant Dean for School of Graduate Studies in the School of Veterinary Medicine
Associate Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine

sbidaisee@sgu.edu

Rebecca Cole, DVM

Adjunct Professor, Wildlife

James Ellis, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Bee Research

Ernesto Guzman, DVM, MS, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Bee Research

Ray Kaplan, DVM, PhD, DEVPC

Adjunct Professor, Parasitology

rkaplan@sgu.edu

John Lumsden, DVM, PhD, MSc

Adjunct Professor

Jeffrey Pettis, BS, MS, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Bee Research

Denis vanEngelsdorp, MS, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Bee Research

Richard Linnehan

COOPERATING FACULTY MEMBER

Calum Macpherson, PhD

Vice Provost for International Program Development
Dean of the School of Graduate Studies
Director of Research

cmacpherson@sgu.edu

Cheryl Cox-MacPherson, PhD

Chair, Bioethics
Course Director for Bioethics and the Professional
Professor of Bioethics

ccox@sgu.edu

Andrea Easter-Pilcher, PhD, MSc

Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Department of Biology, Ecology, and Conservation

aeaster-pilcher@sgu.edu

Svetlana Kotelnikova, BA, MS, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Graduate Studies

skotelnikova@sgu.edu

Clare Morrall, PhD, MSc

Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs
Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Biology, Ecology and Conservation

cmorrall@sgu.edu

Stephen Nimrod

Instructor

snimrod@sgu.edu

JOINT FACULTY

G. Richard Olds, MD, MACP

President

Small Animal Clinic

FACULTY
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Wayne Sylvester, DVM, MSc

Medical Director

wsylvester@sgu.edu

Lucian Peters, DVM

Assistant Professor | Veterinary Clinician

Adrea Tidwell, MS

Assistant Professor

atidwell@sgu.edu

Keith Kalasi, DVM

Instructor

kkalasi@sgu.edu

Amanda Marancik, DVM

Instructor

amaranci@sgu.edu

Stacy Francis-Charles, DVM

Instructor

India Paharsingh

Instructor

ipaharsi@sgu.edu

Zsofia Vigh, MRCV

Instructor

zvigh@sgu.edu

Katherine Moreton, RVN, Cert PM&A

Small Animal Medicine and Surgery

FACULTY
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Rodolfo Bruhl-Day, DVM, ChD.SAS, Dipl. CLOVE, EdD.

Department Chair – Small Animal Medicine and Surgery
Professor

rbruhl-day@sgu.edu

Anne Marie Corrigan, DVM, MS, Dipl.ACVIM

Professor

acorrigan@sgu.edu

Tomas Guerrero, Dr. med. vet., Dipl. ECVS

Professor

tguerrer@sgu.edu

Hester McAllister, MVB, Dipl. DVR, Dipl. ECVDI

Professor

hmcallis@sgu.edu

Joe Morgan, DVM, Dipl. ACVR, MS

Professor

jmorgan@sgu.edu

Karin Kalchofner Guerrero, Dr. med. vet., Dipl. ECVAA

Professor

kguerrer@sgu.edu

Regine Hagen, Dr. med.vet., Cert VR, Dipl. ECVDI

Associate Professor

rhagenar@sgu.edu

Francesca Ivaldi, DVM, MS

Associate Professor

fivaldi@sgu.edu

Katharina Kluge, Dr. Med. Vet.

Associate Professor

kkluge1@sgu.edu

Tara Paterson, DVM, MSc

Associate Professor

tpaterson@sgu.edu

Marta Lanza Perea, MRCVS, MSc

Associate Professor

mperea@sgu.edu

Talia Guttin, VMD, Dipl. ACVIM

Assistant Professor

tguttin@sgu.edu

Mercedes Miccio, DVM

Assistant Professor

mmiccio@sgu.edu

Adria Rodriguez, DVM, MSc

Assistant Dean of Students
Assistant Professor

airodriguez@sgu.edu

Sharon Sage, DVM

Assistant Professor

ssage@sgu.edu

Emily Turrito, DVM

Instructor

eturitt1@sgu.edu

Naudia Dundas, MIB, Post Grad. Edu, BSc, Dip.

Demonstrator

ndundas@sgu.edu

Elizabeth Peach, BSc

Demonstrator

epeach@sgu.edu

ADJUNCT FACULTY
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Thomas Nemetz, PhD, DVM, MSc

Adjunct Professor, Small Animal Dentistry

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