Summer 2004 - University of Minnesota College of Veterinary ...

VETERINARY CLINICAL SCIENCES ■ VETERINARY CLINICAL SCIENCESRobert WashabauJoinsCollege asVeterinaryClinicalRobert WashabauSciencesDepartment ChairRobert Washabau, V.M.D., Ph.D., Dipl. ACVIM, hasaccepted the position of chair of the VeterinaryClinical Sciences Department and will start his leadershipin September.Washabau is currently professor of medicine in theDepartment of Clinical Studies at the University ofPennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, where hereceived his V.M.D. in 1982 and his Ph.D. in physiology in1990. His curriculum vitae documents acquisition of morethan $5 million in research funding, publication of 95 refereedjournal articles and scientific abstracts, 12 review papers,and more than 20 book chapters. Washabau has participatedin 66 presentations and lectures and received 18 awards andhonors. He also holds editorial positions on several veterinaryjournals, including the Journal of the American VeterinaryMedical Association, American Journal of Veterinary Research,and the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. His primaryresearch programs are gastrointestinal motility and its disorders,gastrointestinal prokinetic therapy, feline exocrine pancreaticdiseases, and mechanisms of gastrointestinal inflammation.“I am pleased that Dr. Washabau will be joining us and I lookforward to working with him in the years ahead,” says DeanJeffrey Klausner. “We owe a big thank-you to Trevor Amesfor serving as interim chair of the Veterinary ClinicalSciences Department in addition to his role as chair of theVeterinary Population Medicine Department over these pastyears.”About the Veterinary ClinicalSciences DepartmentThe Veterinary Clinical Sciences department (VCS), previouslyknown as Small Animal Clinical Sciences, is dedicatedto improving the health of companion animals and thewell-being of owners by providing excellent veterinaryeducation, delivering outstanding medical and surgicalservices, and generating new knowledge. It providesinstruction to veterinary students, interns, residents, andgraduate students in companion animal medicine, surgery,cardiology, dermatology, nutrition, integrative complementarymedicine, neurology, dentistry, oncology, theriogenology,anesthesiology, ophthalmology, behavior, andradiology.The department has 15 veterinary residents, 16 graduatestudents in the veterinary medicine graduate program,and 7 interns. VCS faculty members are responsible for significantportions of the clinical training program for thirdand fourth-year professional students and provide instructionon small animal rotations for veterinary techniciansfrom Ridgewater College.Treatment of referred cases, telephone consultations withpracticing veterinarians, and continuing education lecturesto veterinarians constitute another major responsibilityof departmental faculty. In addition, faculty areactively involved in clinical and basic research and participatein the veterinary medicine and molecular veterinarybiosciences graduate programs.The VCS is the home ofThe Raptor Center, the Comparative Surgical Laboratory,and the Urolith Center. Many faculty are also involved inresearch conducted in the Veterinary Clinical InvestigationCenter, a collegiate center managed by Bert Stromberg,associate dean of veterinary research and graduate programs.The VCS department includes the following divisions:MedicineEmergency Medicine and Critical CareSpecialties. This division includes specialists in cardiology,dermatology, oncology, and internal medicine.Comparative AnesthesiologySurgeryMedical ImagingOphthalmology and NeurologyTheriogenology, Nutrition, Behavioral Health, andCommunity Practice3