Amanda Abelson
Clinical Instructor, Emergency & Critical Care and Anesthesia
Department of Clinical Sciences
Phone: 508-839-5395
Fax: 508-839-7922
Email: amanda.abelson@tufts.edu

Education

• BA Bowdoin College
• DVM Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
• Residency Cerificate Small and Large Animal Anesthesia
• Residency Certificate Small Animal Emergency & Critical Care

Board Certification

• DVM, DACVECC

General Research Interest

• Transfusion medicine
• Trauma
• Abdominal sepsis

Selected Research Project

• Coagulopathy in trauma

Teaching

• Clinical Skills I and II Course Director

Research & Clinical Interests

• Transfusion medicine
• Management of abdominal sepsis
• Management of severe trauma
• Antibiotic selection for sepsis
• Anesthesia of the critically ill

Selected Publications

1. Use of mycophenolate mofetil as a rescue agent in the treatment of severe generalized myasthenia gravis in three dogs. Abelson A, Shelton D, Whelan M, et al. JVECC 2009;19(4):369-374.
2. A comparison of epidural morphine with low dose bupivacaine versus epidural morphine alone on motor and respiratory function in dogs following splenectomy. Abelson AL, Armitage-Chan E, Lindsey JC, Wetmore LA. 2011 May;38(3):213-23.