School of Veterinary Medicine Research Faculty Profiles
The following profiles represent the SVM faculty involved in research and SVM Adjunct and Cooperating faculty who collaborate with SVM researchers. SVM faculty also collaborate with many other researchers at institutions in North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. These collaborations are reflected within the individual SVM faculty research profile.
Muhammad I. Bhaiyat, BVM, PhD
Professor, Veterinary Pathology
Department of Paraclinical Studies
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals
- Wild Animals
- Poultry
Satesh Bidaisee DVM, MSPH, EdD, CPH, FRSPH
Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Assistant Dean for School of Graduate Studies
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Human Behavior
- Climate
- Zoonoses
- Food Safety and Food Security
- Human and Animal Refugee Health
- One Health Concept
Catherine Werners-Butler, PhD, DVM, MRCVS, Dipl. ECEIM, Dipl. RNVA
Associate Professor
Diplomate European College Equine Internal Medicine
Large Animal Medicine and Surgery Academic Program
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Equine
- Tick-borne diseases
- Zoonoses
- Anaplasma phagocytophilum
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- Theileria equi
- Babesia caballi
Sonia Cheetham Brow, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor, Veterinary Virology
Department of Pathobiology, SVM
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Viruses
- Teaching
- Research using both in vitro and in vivo models
- Zoonotic viruses
- Viruses in Grenada
Cheryl Macpherson, PhD
Professor, Department of Clinical Skills, WINDREF Senior Research Fellow
- Cooperating Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Bioethics
- Public health ethics
- Research ethics
- Climate change and health
- One Health
- Veterinary bioethics
- The Caribbean
- Small Island Developing States
- Low resource settings
- Capacity building
- Education for critical thinking and writing
- Community engagement
- Biobanking
Alfred Chikweto, BVetMed, MSc
Associate Professor, Veterinary Pathology
Department of Pathobiology
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Toxoplasmosis
- Cryptosposporidiosis in small ruminants
- Animal neoplasms
Richard Mugwanya Kabuusu, BVM, MPH, CPH, PhD
Associate Professor, Veterinary Clinical Pathology and Public Health
Department of Pathobiology
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Disease mapping
- Zoonotics
- Medical history
- Diagnostics
- Injury and infectious disease epidemiology
- Ultrastructural pathology
Tom Aifuo Aire, DVM, PhD
Program Director, Anatomy and Physiology
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Reproductive biology of male laboratory animals
- Reproductive biology of male wildlife
- Reproductive biology of male birds
- Reproductive toxicology in laboratory animals and birds
Rhonda D. Pinckney, M.S., DVM, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathobiology
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Zoonotic Diseases
- Infectious Diseases
- Parasites of Public Health Significance
- Parasitic Diseases
- Parasitology and Tropical Medicine
- Community Outreach Programs
Melinda J. Wilkerson
Diplomate, ACVP Professor and Chair, Pathobiology School of Veterinary Medicine
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Clinical Pathology
- Immunopathology
- Vector borne diseases
Ulrike Zieger, MSc, DVM, German Doctorate (Veterinary Physiology)
Professor, Veterinary Physiology
Department of Preclinical Studies
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Wildlife Veterinary Medicine
- Wildlife Conservation and Management
- Wildlife Parasites
- Wildlife Diseases and Disease Control
- Game Capture
- Management of Protected Areas
Arno H. Werners, DVM, PhD, DECVPT
Professor of Pharmacology
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Innate Immunity
- (Equine) Clinical Pharmacology
Wayne R.B Sylvester, DVM
Assistant Professor/Clinician
Small Animal Medicine and Surgery Program
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
- Vector-borne Diseases
Diana M. Stone, MPH, DVM, PhD
Professor, Veterinary Public Health
Department of Pathobiology
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Zoonoses, specifically Zoonotic Viruses of Bats
- Seroprevalence studies
- Epidemiology of Zoonotic Diseases
Trevor Paul Noël, MPH, PhD
Assistant Director, WINDREF Research Institute
- Cooperating Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Rheumatic Fever
- Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Genetic Correlates of Addictive Diseases
Stephen Nimrod, MSc
Instructor in Marine Biology
Department of Life Sciences
- Cooperating Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Marine Protected Areas (MPA)
- Coral Reef Conservation
- Coral Bleaching
- Threats and Impacts to Coral Reefs
- Macroalgal Growth on Coral Reefs
- Sea Urchin Fisheries
Clare Morrall, PhD
Director of the Marine Biology Program
- Cooperating Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Marine Medicine
Calum N.L. Macpherson, PhD, DIC
Vice Provost, International Development Program
Dean, School of Graduate Studies
Director of Research
Professor, Parasitology, School of Medicine
Professor, Veterinary Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Cooperating Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Human behavior
- Zoonoses
- Climate change
- Vector-borne diseases and SARS-CoV-2
- Epidemiology
- Surveillance
Marta Lanza-Perea, Bach in Vet Med, MSc, MRCVS
Associate Professor for Small Animal Medicine and Surgery
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Infectious Diseases
- Specially Tick Borne Diseases
- Shelter Medicine
- One Health Once Medicine
- Transmissible Venereal Tumor
- Soft Tissue Surgery
Josephine Azikuru Afema, BVM, MPVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVPM
Associate Professor, Department of Pathobiology
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Integrated approaches (epidemiology, mathematical modeling, molecular techniques, human behaviors and cultures) to understand disease transmission at the human-domestic animal-wildlife interface.
- Contribute to research to raise awareness about neglected zoonotic bacterial and parasitic infections (brucellosis, cysticercosis, salmonellosis, Q-fever, leptospirosis,) so that they can be prioritized for public health intervention.
- Antibiotic use in livestock, emergence, dissemination, and persistence of antimicrobial resistance in animal production systems and environments.
Heidi Janicke, VetMed, PhD, MRCVS, Dipl. ECVS, SFHEA
Associate Professor
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Equine Surgery
- Large Animal surgery
- Equine Inflammatory diseases
- Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Assessment in Higher Education
- Curriculum Design in Higher Education
Kamashi Kumar, BVSc & AH, MVSc, PhD
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Medicinal Properties of Natural Plants
- Cell Culture Studies
- Nanoparticles
- Drug Toxicity
Kerri Nigito, BSc, DVM
Clinical Instructor, Large Animal Medicine and Surgery, SVM
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Food safety
- Food residues
Hector Zerpa Gonzalez, MV. MSc. PhD.
Associate Professor, Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology Department
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology
- Endothelial function
- Vascular reactivity
Firdous Ahmad Khan, BVSc, MVSc, DVSc, DACT
Assistant Professor
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Theriogenology
- Equine and bovine endometritis
- Uterine proteomics
- Follicular dynamics
- Canine transmissible venereal tumor
Paul Fields
Professor, Office of Research
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Biostatistics
- Biomedical Research
Francesca Ivaldi
Associate Professor Small Animal Medicine and Surgery Academic Program
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Clinical Skills
- Dentistry
- Education
- Small Animal Surgery
Anne Marie Corrigan
Professor, Small Animal Internal Medicine
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Infectious diseases
Elizabeth A. Peach, BSc, CVT/LVT
Demonstrator Level III Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Shelter Medicine
- Animal Welfare
- One Health One Medicine Initiative
- Public Health
- Zoonoses
- Non-Surgical Forms of Sterilization for the Control of Overpopulation in Canines and Felines
- Disaster Preparedness
Tara Paterson, DVM, MSc
Associate Professor Small Animal Medicine & Surgery department
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Companion animal clinical parasitology (demodicosis, Dirofilaria immitis)
- Companion animal vector-borne (heartworm disease, ehrlichisis, anaplasmosis) and infectious diseases (Leptospirosis)
- Companion animal dermatology
Dave Marancik, DVM, PhD, CertAqVet
Associate Professor of Aquatic Animal Medicine, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Aquaculture
- Aquatic Animals
- Biomarkers of Disease
- Disease Diagnostics
- Immunology
- Pathology
- Wildlife Veterinary Medicine
Bhumika Sharma, BSc., MSc.
Veterinary Teaching Associate
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Microbiology
- Anaplasmataceae
- Obligate Intracellular Pathogens
- Molecular Biology
Andy Alhassan, DVM, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Infectious Diseases
- Zoonoses
- Vector-Borne Diseases
- Genomics
- Molecular Biology
- Molecular Diagnostics
Sharianne Suepaul, DVM, PhD, PGCert. UTL
Associate Professor, Department of Pathobiology
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Leptospirosis
- Staphylococcus spp.
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Investigating alternatives to antimicrobials
Sophie Moittié, LicVet, DVetMed
Assistant professor in zoological medicine
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Primate diseases
- Biomarker discovery
- Diagnostic tools
- Anesthesia
- Zoo preventative medicine
- Wildlife conservation
- Aquatic animal medicine
- Zoo nutrition
Afroza Khanam, BSc, MSc, PhD
Instructor, Department of Large Animal Medicine and Surgery, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Nanomaterials and their application in medicine
- Public health
- Food safety
- Green research
- Molecular biology
- Topical and systematic reviews
- Theriogenology
Caroline Jane Noel
Lecturer, Clinical Skills
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Chronic Non Communicable Disease
- Childhood and adult obesity
- Vaping
- BLS teaching
- Medical student self-awareness
Atoum Abdullah
Instructor, Biochemistry Department
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- E-learning
- Curriculum design and development
- Pedagogy and andragogy
- Technology in education
- Science education
- Public health education
- Community health
- Mental health
Stephan Bandelow
Associate Director of Research, SGU Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Neuroscience & Behavioral Sciences
- Full Time Faculty
- SVM Researcher
- Dementia
- Age-related chronic disease
- Cognitive Psychology
- Language analysis and modelling
- Medical semantics
- Mixed effects models
- Time series modelling
- Geospatial analysis