Board of Visitors recognizes college faculty
June 8, 2023
Many congratulations to veterinary college faculty recognized by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors at the June 6 meeting. The full list can be found here.
For the college, the Board approved the following promotions and tenure.
Promotion to associate professor with tenure:
Nisha Duggal, PhD
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
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Faculty Spotlight: Nisha Duggal , articleNisha Duggal, PhD Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Tenure at the currently held rank of associate professor:
Shawna Klahn DVM, DACVIM–Oncology
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
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Grant helps improve pets' quality of life , articlePetco Love awards a grant to help provide financial assistance for pet owners who may not be able to pay for some or all of the cancer diagnostic tests and treatments for their dogs and cats.
Promotion to professor:
Coy Allen, PhD, MBA, MS
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
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Virginia Tech team receives $2 million grant to use bubbles to destroy deadly tumors , articlePancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of the major cancers, and only 10 percent of patients live longer than five years after diagnosis. Treatment options can be limited, but an interdisciplinary team led by Irving Coy Allen, associate professor of inflammatory diseases at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, might change that. The team recently received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the use of histotripsy as a therapeutic option for pancreatic cancer.
Promotion to professor:
Xin Luo, PhD
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
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Veterinary college research team explores causal relationship between maternal microbiota and neonatal antibody response , articleA research team from principal investigator Xin Luo’s lab used rodent subjects to show a causal relationship between neonatal antibody production and the mother’s microbiota. The team’s findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the official journal of the National Academy of Sciences.
Promotion to professor:
Michelle Theus, PhD
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
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$300,000 seed planted in neurotrauma research consortium hoping to harvest multimillion-dollar grants , articleMichelle Theus is the program director of the new consortium for neurotrauma research, which has been awarded a $300,000 seed grant by Fralin Life Sciences Institute for the purpose of building a research team and engaging in groundbreaking scientific investigation of TBI and its long-term effects to compete for multimillion-dollar program grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.
Promotion to associate professor of practice:
Cassidy Rist, DVM, MPH, DACVPM
Department of Population Health Sciences
Promotion to professor of practice:
Valerie Ragan, DVM
Department of Population Health Sciences
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Veterinarians find new career paths with help of program aiming to become national center , articleMany veterinarians reach a point where they are looking for an exit ramp off the career track they have followed since graduation, even since childhood dreams. A center based at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine on the Virginia Tech campus helps veterinarians from across the nation find new routes, applying their education, experience and skills to move into areas of veterinary medicine beyond private practice, such as government or industry.
Promotion to clinical associate professor:
Mark Freeman, DVM, DABVP-Canine/Feline Practice, CVA
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
Promotion to clinical associate professor:
Hollie Schramm, DVM, DABVP
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
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Production Management Medicine Faculty Members Earn Board Certification , articleOver the past year, two members of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine’s Production Management Medicine team became board certified by the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, respectively. Recent diplomates Sierra Guynn and Hollie Schramm, both clinical assistant professors, put in countless hours of study and hard work to achieve these accomplishments.
Promotion to clinical associate professor:
Ben Tham, DVM, DACVD
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
Promotion to clinical professor:
Kevin Lahmers, DVM, PhD, DACVP-Anatomic Pathology
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
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Kevin Lahmers, leader in exotic tick disease study, wins Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence , articleWhen it comes to receiving the 2022 Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence, Kevin Lahmers credits just about everyone around him more than himself. “I really appreciate it,” said Lahmers, clinical associate professor of anatomic pathology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine “It's recognition that we are doing things that are beneficial to the veterinary community, for livestock producers in the region and the state, and that is very gratifying.