UW VETERINARY CARE - Key Persons
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Nichelason's research goals are to help create tools that enhance clinical decision making and the ability to practice evidence-based and high-quality medicine.
Responsibilities
Currently, Dr. Nichelason is a clinical assistant professor of primary care services. She is heavily involved in clinical teaching, including the clinical rotations of fourth year veterinary students, preclinical laboratory instruction, and clinical reasoning selective.
Dr. Nichelason's clinical and teaching interests center around maximizing preclinical and clinical veterinary student education to create successful general practitioners. She is particularly interested in internal medicine, "whole pet" health care: navigating and balancing multiple health issues, client communication, and fear & stress reduction techniques for both clients & patients.
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- DAVDC, Founding Fellow AVDC Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Clinical Associate Professor
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
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- DACVIM ( Oncology ), Professor
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- Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Walker's research interests include optimization of blood product collection, storage and administration, management of pleural space disease, and viscoelastic tests of coagulation.
Dr. Walker's responsibilities include teaching (VM1-4), service, and research. She serves as the course coordinator for the first-year Health, History, and Physical Examination course. Dr. Walker also serves as a Rotating Internship Program Co-Director/Internship Committee Co-Chair, the Director of the UWVC Blood Donor Program and Blood Bank, and Chief of Small Animal Services for UW Veterinary Care. She enjoys contributing to curriculum design through involvement in the PREPARE Graduates Task Force and encouraging camaraderie in the hospital through leading the UWVC Morale Committee. Nationally, Dr. Walker is a Co-Chair of the Examination Committee for the ACVECC Specialty College.
Dr. Walker's clinical interests include blood banking, transfusion medicine, and the treatment of pleural space disease and bleeding disorders.
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- Necropsy Technician / CLINICAL PATHOLOGY
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- DACVP Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
Black, C.C., L.C. Eberlein, S. M. Solyman, R.P. Wilkes, F.A. Hartmann, B. Rohrbach, D. A. Bemis, S.A. Kania. 2011. The role of mecA and blaZ regulatory elements in mecA expression by regional clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius. Veterinary Microbiology. 151:345-353
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- Medical Technologist ( ASCP ) Supervisor
Dr. Oetzel's current research interests are in the prevention of hypocalcemia in dairy cattle by oral administration of calcium supplements; the effects of subclinical ketosis on dairy cow performance; and the effects of hypocalcemia on dairy cow health and reproductive performance. Previous interests of his included the prevention of ruminal acidosis, direct-fed microbials, and manipulating dietary cation-anion different for the prevention of hypocalcemia.
Dr. Oetzel teaches veterinary clinical nutrition to the first-year veterinary medical students, food animal medicine to the third-year students, and applied aspects of dairy nutrition and transition cow management to the fourth-year veterinary medical students. His clinical activities include providing on-farm troubleshooting for dairy herds in Wisconsin and nearby states.
Dr. Oetzel's predominant clinical activity is dairy herd troubleshooting for production and metabolic disease problems. This typically involves a visit to the farm with students, followed by a report and follow-up discussion. Herd problems that he investigates include low milk yield, milk fever, ketosis, diarrhea, displaced abomasum, pneumonia, or general issues with poor fresh cow health. As part of these investigations, he conducts a detailed analysis of feeding practices, evaluate on-farm diagnosis and treatment protocols, and collect samples from the cows for additional testing as needed.
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
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- Clinical Associate Professor
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- Clinical Associate Professor
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
- Supervisor
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
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- DAVDC, Found Fellow AVDC Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Clinical Associate Professor
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- Medical Technologist ( ASCP )
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- Chairman, Department of Surgical Sciences
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- VMD, DACVR ( Radiology, Radiation Oncology ), Professor
- VMD, DACVR, DACVR - RO, Professor
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- RECEPTION STAFF Member
- Supervisor
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
Meenu Verma is the Associate Director of UW Veterinary Care and serves as the primary administrative position for coordination and oversight of day-to-day activities for the hospital operations and financial activities to support development and stability of the hospital for long-term success. Provides guidance and strategic direction for the hospital's clinical service and teaching and research missions.
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
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- DACT ( Bovine ), Professor
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- Medical Technologist ( ASCP )
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
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- Clinical Associate Professor
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- Medical Laboratory Technician
Dr. Chun's research is most focused on better understanding how to improve access to veterinary medical care and how this impacts OneHealth, the idea that the health of animals and humans and the environment in which they live is intertwined.
Dr. Chun is the section head of medical oncology, co-chair of the professional development curriculum development working group, hospital lead on the remodel and new building project. and chief of Large Animal Services at the UW - School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences.
Dr. Chun enjoys being a clinician in medical oncology and working with her patients and their people, as well as with their the referring veterinarians. She also enjoys being one of the communication training faculty at the SVM and working with the students to build their communication skills.
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- Veterinary Clinical Pathologist, Prairie Diagnostic Services, Saskatchewan, SK, Canada
Dr Brounts is interested in the biology of tendon/ligament injury and regenerative medicine treatment strategies for tendon repair. She is part of a collaborative interdisciplinary research group in the School of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Medicine & Public Health and currently has several active research projects in this field. Another area of interest is bone healing, specifically methods to enhance healing in fractures and bone allografts.
Dr Brounts is involved in the both the undergraduate and graduate/resident teaching in the veterinary program. She teaches students during their clinical rotations as well as during elective food animal and equine surgery courses. She is also involved in the continuing education for private practitioners
Dr Brounts is interested in all aspects of large animal surgery with a special interest in tendon/ligament injury, regenerative medicine treatment strategies for tendon repair and bone healing.
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Member of the MEDICAL RECORDS and APPOINTMENT STAFF
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Medical Technologist ( ASCP )
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- DACVIM ( LAIM ), Assistant Professor