Pathology

Large Animal Hospital

Faculty:

• Richard Jakowski, DVM, Associate Professor and Section Head
• Perry Bain, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor
• Roderick Bronson, DVM, Professor
• John Keating, DVM, Assistant Professor
• Joseph Alroy, DVM, Associate Professor
• Joyce Knoll, PhD, VMD, Associate Professor, Clinical Pathology Laboratory Director
• Steven Rowell, DVM, Assistant Professor
• Nicola Parry, MSc, BVSc, Assistant Professor

Administrative Staff:

• TBA

Residents:

• Vin Carroll, VMD, Resident
• Rebecca Ducore, DVM, Resident
• Chris Gibson, VMD, Resident
• Mary Catherine Lewis, VMD, Resident
• Raffaele Melidone, DVM, Resident
• Rob Simoni, DVM, Resident
• Maria Vandis, DVM, Resident

Technical Staff:

• Julian Barria, Diener
• Ann Blassoto, Medical Technician
• Frances Brown, Laboratory Supervisor
• Tammi Frank, Technician, Clinical Pathology
• Cheryl Stockman, Lab Supervisor, Clinical Pathology
• Christine St. Cyr, Laboratory Technologist
• Joann Wood, Histotechnologist
• Diane Noyles, Medical Technician
• Beth Underwood, Per Diem
• Vicki Vander Sluis, Laboratory Assistant

Faculty members in the section of Pathology are involved in teaching, research, and providing anatomic and clinical pathology support to the various clinics/organizations on and off campus.

Faculty are responsible for directing and teaching a substantial number of courses in the second year curriculum, including Neuromuscular and Skeletal Pathobiology, Respiratory Pathobiology, Pathophysiology of the Urinary System, Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Reproductive Pathology and Clinical Pathology. In addition, fourth year students spend time in the section learning how to perform a necropsy and reviewing principles of clinical pathology.

Faculty in the pathology section provide a biopsy/necropsy service for the school and oversee a clinical pathology laboratory, responsible for performing routine diagnostic tests such as hematology, clinical chemistry, coagulation tests and urinalysis for Tufts' patients and researchers.

Research activities in the section include studying infectious enteric diseases of pigs, the pathology of aging, cancer pathobiology, the effects of sex hormones on the development of cardiovascular disease in women and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.