Veterinary Clinical Pathologist

After becoming a veterinarian, I worked in private practice before completing a PhD and moving to the US to become an instructor at Cornell University in Clinical Pathology. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, I returned to the CVM at Cornell as a tenure-track clinical pathologist and established my research program on canine and equine diseases. I have studied mechanisms of thrombosis with equine herpesvirus type-1 infection and found that heparin anticoagulant can inhibit virus-induced platelet activation. This finding led to the use of heparin as a prophylactic anticoagulant to help prevent abortion and equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy. I also publish case reports and case series and studies describing clinical pathologic data with various equine diseases, e.g. acute leukemia.