Faculty News
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The College of Veterinary Medicine is pleased to announce its newest faculty, who are conducting transformative research in critical areas such as infectious diseases, regenerative medicine, virology and epidemiology, oncology and various clinical specialties.
These new faculty are teaming with current faculty to allow greater opportunities for our students to engage in active, hands-on learning both inside the classroom and out. We invite you to read more about our new colleagues and their outstanding credentials in teaching, research and outreach and join us in welcoming them to Auburn Vet Med.
DR. STUART CLARK-PRICE
DVM, MS, DACVIM, DACVAA, CVA
Associate Professor, Anesthesia/Pain Management, Department of Clinical Sciences
Dr. Clark-Price received his DVM with high honors from Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine after completing his clinical rotations at Cornell University in 2000. He completed a theriogenology internship at Cornell and then went to Kansas State University to complete an equine internal medicine residency and a master’s degree in clinical sciences. He returned to Cornell University to complete an anesthesiology residency. His research interests include thermoregulation during anesthesia, aspects of recovery of horses from anesthesia and anesthesia of various exotic animals including amphibians and exotic felids.
DR. KAYLA CORRIVEAU
DVM, DACVS-SA
Assistant Professor, Orthopedics Department of Clinical Sciences
Dr. Corriveau is a board-certified surgeon, a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. She received her DVM from Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, Calif., and continued her training with rotating and surgical specialty internships at California Veterinary Specialists, the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of San Diego, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Her research interests include minimally invasive fracture repair, canine elbow dysplasia, physical rehabilitation, joint arthroscopy, and regenerative medicine.
DR. DIANE DELMAIN
DVM, DABVP FELINE
Assistant Clinical Professor, Community Practice, Department of Clinical Sciences
Dr. Delmain is a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in the Feline specialty and teaches veterinary students and sees cases at the Auburn University Veterinary Clinic. She is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine and was in feline private practice for many years as a practice owner and then medical director for a corporate practice. Her areas of interest include internal medicine, dentistry and clinical communication.
DR. CHEN-CHE “JEFF” HUANG
DVM, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology
Dr. Huang earned his DVM from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He continued his training as a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF and then NIDDK, NIH. His research interests include molecular biology approaches as well as genome-wide analyses to study the regulatory mechanism of the development of endocrine organs. His current project uses the next generation sequencing technique and the following bioinformatics analysis to understand the genome-wide control of adrenal gland growth and development.
DR. KARA LASCOLA
DVM, MS, DACVIM-LA, CVA
Associate Professor, Equine Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences
Dr. Lascola obtained the BA and MS degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She continued her education and earned her DVM from the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in 2003. She remained at Tufts where she completed a combined internship with the Massachusetts Equine Clinic, a residency in large animal internal medicine, and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory. Dr. Lascola achieved board certification in Large Animal Internal Medicine in 2007 and is an active member of the Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society and the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Her research interests include respiratory disease and physiology, development of novel approaches to image the lung, and pharmacology.
DR. MARIANO MORA-PEREIRA
LV, MS, DACVIM-LA
Associate Professor, Equine Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences
Dr. Mora-Pereira received his MS degree in Biomedical Sciences at Auburn University and his Licentiate in Veterinary Medicine, the equivalent of a DVM, from the National University of Costa Rica in 2011. He completed a large animal medicine and surgery internship at the University of Guelph – Ontario Veterinary College, Canada. Dr. Mora-Pereira previously served as a large animal internal medicine resident and graduate teaching assistant at Auburn and as a large animal medicine and surgery intern, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada. He also has been an associate veteri-narian at a mixed animal practice, Corral del Sol Animal Hospital, Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica. He served in externships at New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City.
DR. PHILLIP MOON
DVM
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences
Dr. Moon received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Mississippi State University and his DVM from St. George’s University following his clinical year at Auburn University. He spent the next 15 years in private practice in several states. Dr. Moon coordinates the Spay and Neuter rotation for senior veterinary students.
DR. NICHOLAS RANCILIO
DVM, MS, DACVR (RADIATION ONCOLOGY)
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology Department of Clinical Sciences
Dr. Rancilio received his BS degree from the University of Michigan, his MS from Purdue University, and his DVM from Michigan State University. He is a Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Radiology (Specialty of Radiation Oncology). His research interests include stereotactic radiotherapy; intensity modulated radiotherapy; radiosensitizers; contouring; palliative/end-of-life care; and oncologic pain management.
DR. AMY B. YANKE
DVM, MS
Assistant Professor, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Sciences
Dr. Yanke received her DVM from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine. Following graduation, she completed a one-year rotating internship in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery at the Veterinary Specialty Center of Tucson, Ariz., then a one-year specialty internship in neurology at the Animal Specialty Center in Yonkers, New York. She completed a three-year residency in neurology and neurosurgery at Purdue University, where she also earned a master’s degree. Her research interests include intracranial neoplasia and spinal neoplasia.
DR. CONSTANTINOS S. KYRIAKIS
DVM, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiology
Dr. Kyriakis received his DVM from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Macedonia, Greece, and his Ph.D. in virology and vaccinology from the Laboratory of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium. He returned to Greece, where he completed military service as a veterinary microbiologist at the Hellenic Army Biological Research Center, and later worked as technical director at the Animal Health Division of Medical Products Ltd in Athens, Greece. He was an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Thessaly, where he taught virology, immunology and viral infectious diseases and was co-investigator in an EU-funded research project investigating the epidemiology of influenza in swine following the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. He moved to the U.S. in 2013, first as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Emory University and then as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Georgia. His research interests include viral diseases of food animals; swine and avian influenza viruses and interspecies trans-mission; novel vaccine technologies; animal models of viral disease pathogenesis and prevention and swine virology and epidemiology.
DR. JOHN ROBERTS
DVM, DIPL. ACVP
Clinical Lecturer, Department of Pathobiology
A native of Lexington, Ky., and former Peace Corps volunteer, Dr. Roberts received an undergraduate degree and DVM from Auburn University. Prior to entering the field of veterinary pathology, he was a mixed animal practitioner in Kentucky, West Virginia and Oregon. Dr. Roberts is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anatomy, Physi-ology and Pharmacology, studying bovine ovarian follicular dysplasia. His research interests include non-mammalian and comparative reproductive pathology.
DR. AMOL SURYAWANSHI
DVM, MS, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Immunology Department of Pathobiology
Dr. Suryawanshi received his DVM from Bombay Veterinary College, Mumbai, India. He was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship to pursue a Master of Veterinary Sciences degree in Animal Biochemistry from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, UP. He earned his Ph.D. with the research focus on viral immunopathology in comparative and experimental medicine from the University of Tennessee. His research interests include immuno-oncology, immuno-pathology and infectious diseases.
DR. KATHARINE HORZMANN
DVM, Ph.D., MPH, DIPL. ACVP
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiology
Dr. Horzmann earned a BS, a master’s of public health, and the DVM from the University of Missouri-Co-lumbia. She completed an anatomic pathology residency at Purdue University and is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists. She earned a Ph.D. in toxicology at Purdue University. Her research interests include develop-mental toxicity of chemical mixtures, the developmental origins of health and disease as related to toxicant exposures, and zebrafish behavior.