Externship Faculty
Clinical Faculty
Megan A. Albertelli, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACLAM received her DVM from Michigan State University (1999). After studying the genetics of feline mammary adenocarcinoma at Michigan State University, she became a postdoctoral fellow in laboratory animal medicine at University of Michigan. While at University of Michigan, she received her PhD in Human Genetics for the study of genetic variation in a mouse model of prostate carcinoma (2007). She joined Stanford in 2007 as a staff veterinarian and became board certified as a diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine in 2008. Her interests include clinical care of laboratory animal species, cancer genetics, and development of mouse models of human cancers. (650) 725-3603
Donna Bouley, DVM, Ph.D., Diplomate ACVP, Professor of Comparative Medicine received her DVM from the University of Tennessee (1985), was in private practice for three years before returning to University of Tennessee where she received her PhD (1995) in Comparative and Experimental Medicine studying the immunopathology of Herpetic Stromal Keratitis in mouse models. She then joined the faculty at Texas A&M. In 1996 she was board certified as a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists. She joined the faculty at Stanford in 1997. She is an active member of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists and chairs several sections at the annual ACVP meetings. Her interests include neuropathology, hypoxic cytotoxic cancer drugs, the pathology of minimally invasive cancer therapies such as high intensity focused ultrasound and cryosurgery, and host-pathogen interactions in infectious diseases. (650) 498-5403
David Chu, DVM, Staff Veterinarian, Diplomate ACLAM received his DVM from the University of California, Davis in 2003 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Laboratory Animal Medicine in the Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine in 2006 and is a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. Dr. Chu supports the clinical service functions of the Veterinary Service Center as well as investigator training and consultation. (650)724-1003
Linda Collins Cork, D.V.M., Ph.D., Diplomate ACVP, Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Comparative Medicine received her DVM from Texas A&M University (1970) and her PhD from Washington State University (1974). Before coming to Stanford University in 1994, she was a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University (1976 - 1994). She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Dr. Cork’s research focuses on animal models of neurological disease; she has identified and defined hereditary canine models of motor neuron disease, cerebellar degeneration, and neuroaxonal dystrophy, deficiency of the 3rd component of complement, cleft palate, as well as a feline model of GM 2 Gangliosidosis. (650) 498-5080
Corinna Darian-Smith, PhD, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine. Dr. Darian-Smith's research focuses on two main areas in her research: 1) the structural organization and function of central neural pathways (particularly of the thalamus and cortex) that underlie directed manual behavior, and 2) the capacity of these central neural pathways (circuits) to compensate/adapt following localized injury. Her laboratory uses anatomical, electrophysiological and behavioral approaches to look at the sensorimotor systems of nonhuman primates, and to examine the neural basis for functional 'recovery’ observed following the selective disruption of pathways mediating fine finger control. (650) 496-0969
Stephen Felt, DVM, MPH, Diplomate, ACLAM, Diplomate ACVPM, Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine obtained his B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and his DVM degree from University of Wisconsin Veterinary College in Madison. After a few years in private practice, Dr. Felt joined the US Army, served as a Group Veterinarian, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) and obtained a master’s degree in public health from the Uniformed Services University, and completed the Army Laboratory Animal Medicine Residency. He is board certified in Laboratory Animal Medicine and in Preventive Medicine. Dr. Felt is truly an “international” clinician as he served as the Head of Animal Resources Department, Naval Medical Research Unit #3 in Cairo, Egypt, and was a consultant to the World Health Organization in Africa and Asia. He decided to rejoin civilian life (after making it to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel) and recently joined the Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford as an Assistant Professor where he serves as the Attending Veterinarian and Director of the Laboratory Animal Medicine Program. His research interests include infectious diseases, particularly zoonoses, and exploring techniques which promote the health and welfare of laboratory animals. (650) 723-5305
Sherril Green, D.V.M., Ph.D., Diplomate ACVIM, Professor of Comparative Medicine is primarily responsible for the intensive care of large animal species, and routine care of aquatic species. Dr. Green received her DVM from Louisiana State University and completed an internship in Equine Medicine and Surgery at the University of Missouri, a residency in Large Animal Medicine at the University of Florida, and was a clinical instructor in Large Animal Medicine at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph. She subsequently completed a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Green is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Her research interests concern protein phosphorylation and the neurobiology of disease, particularly of diseases that involve cytoskeletal pathology, and the husbandry and diseases of laboratory Xenopus laevis frogs. (650) 723-6113
Lisa A. Heath, DVM, Diplomate ACLAM, Clinical Veterinarian received her DVM from the University of Illinois (1993). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in laboratory animal medicine at University of Michigan in 1996 and became board certified as a diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine in 1998. With a wide range of experience in academic institutions and the biotechnology industry, as well as additional residency training in veterinary pathology, she joined Stanford’s Department of Comparative Medicine in 2008. Her interests include clinical medicine for laboratory animals, animal behavior, and teaching. (650) 725-5471
Richard Luong, BVSc, Diplomate ACVP, Staff Pathologist/Senior Research Scientist is responsible for investigation of spontaneous diseases and deaths in the Research Animal Facility. He received his BVSc from the University of Sydney, Australia in 2000. After 18 months of companion animal practice in the UK and Hong Kong, he started a Pathology Internship with the New South Wales Department of Agriculture in Sydney. He then participated in a Combined Comparative Anatomic Pathology Residency at the Animal Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, which he completed in 2006. He is an active member of the American College of Veterinary Pathology. His interests include tumor pathology (including mechanisms of tumor angiogenesis and metastasis), infectious diseases (particularly mycobacterial, fungal and protozoal diseases), cardiac pathology, dermatopathology, and phenotypic analysis of transgenic animals. (650) 723-3308
Claude M.
Nagamine, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACLAM, Assistant Professor of
Comparative Medicine received his DVM from the University of
Tennessee in 2004, completed his residency training in Laboratory
Animal Medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 2007, and became a diplomate of the ACLAM in 2008. He
joined the Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford
in 2008. Prior to entering veterinary school, Dr. Nagamine
obtained a PhD in Ecology from the University of California,
Davis (1979), obtained postdoctoral training in endocrinology,
developmental genetics, immunology, and molecular biology
of the mouse at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
(NYC), Pasteur Institute (Paris, France), and the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California,
San Francisco and was an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. His research
interests include the molecular genetics of mammalian sex
determination and the effects of the bacterial pathogen Helicobacter
hepaticus on mouse models of colon cancer.
(650) 498-4773
Cholawat Pacharinsak, DVM, PhD is a Veterinary Anesthesiologist, and received his DVM degree from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and MS degree from Washington State University, studying epidural analgesia. He completed his residency in Anesthesiology/Pain Management at the Washington State University. He received his PhD in pain research at the University of Minnesota, studying the roles of rostral ventromedial medulla in hyperalgesia induced by an intraplantar injection of capsaicin. His interests include pain management, local anesthetics, and inhalational anesthesia. (650) 724-9832
Hernan C Rios, DVM, received his DVM from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1999). He was the surgical attendant at Louis Pasteur Zoonosis Institute in Buenos Aires city from 1998-2003. In 1999 he took a technical position at the Center for Animal Virology – CONICET (National Commission for Science and Technology) Buenos Aires- Argentina. In September 2003 he came to the United Stated to join the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland, working with laboratory animals such as mice and Rhesus macaques, and surgical animal models (rabbits) to develop vaccines against enterotoxigenic E. coli, the pathogen responsible for Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. In 2006 he took a position at the University of Southern California (USC) to work with mice as surgical models for liver cirrhosis and pancreatitis. He later joined the Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford University, where he is the Coordinator of Rodent Surveillance. He is an active member of American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, and his interests include animal models of surgical procedures and laboratory animal medicine in general. (650) 725-9165
Stéphanie Torreilles, DVM, MBA, Clinical Veterinarian, received her DVM from the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort (ENVA) in 1999. She was in practice until 2001 working with small animals and exotics (specialized in exotics for a year at her veterinary school) and moved to a product marketing/manager position from 2001 - 2003. She received her MBA-DESS (Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées) in 2003 from the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises de Paris (IAE). She joined Stanford in 2004 as the Rodent Health Coordinator. She started her post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford in Laboratory Animal Medicine in 2006 and became a clinical veterinarian at Stanford in 2008. Her interests include improving the clinical care of laboratory animals, training investigators, post-doctoral fellows as well as veterinary technicians, and studying nephropathy in hypertensive rats. (650) 724-4415
Laboratory Animal Post-doctoral Fellows
Antwain Howard, DVM received his DVM from Tuskegee University in 2008. While at Tuskegee he served as chapter president of the Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association (2006-2007). He was awarded numerous academic and leadership scholarships including the Western Veterinary Conferences Leadership Scholarship and inducted Xi Beta National Veterinary Honor Society. He has well rounded experience working in a research environment due to his experiences as an intern with Pfizer Animal Health, University of Missouri Comparative Medicine Department and as a summer research fellow at Stanford University. His current goal is to become board certified in Laboratory Animal Medicine. (650) 724-9834
C. Tyler Long, DVM received his DVM from Ross University School of Veterinary
Medicine in 2004 and completed his clinical year of studies
at Cornell Veterinary School in Ithaca, New York. Upon graduation
he entered into a mixed animal practice in upstate New York
focusing on small animal medicine and equine reproduction and
lameness. Dr. Long spent 3 more years in small animal practice
in Ohio, working primarily in emergency medicine. Aside from
private practice, he was also a part-time professor for Stautzenberger
College’s Veterinary
Technician Program lecturing on topics of large animal husbandry,
diseases, and diagnostic imaging. In June, 2008 he joined the
Stanford University Department of Comparative Medicine as a
postdoctoral fellow. His interests include anesthesia/analgesia
in laboratory animals, diagnostic imaging, and sheep and swine
animal models.
(650) 721-1305
Gabriel McKeon, DVM received his DVM from the University of California at Davis in 2008. Prior to studying veterinary medicine, he worked at the VA Medical Center in Portland, OR, as a research assistant looking into alternative treatments for Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE) in mice – one model for Multiple Sclerosis. (650) 723-6735
Research Faculty and Post Doctoral Fellows
Laura Bronsart, DVM received her DVM from Washington State University (2008), with focused studies on exercise physiology in thoroughbred horses. She recently came to Stanford University and is working on a PhD in Biology. Her main interests are preventative medicine and the development of new medical applications.
Paul Buckmaster, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and Neurology & Neurological Sciences received his DVM from the University of California at Davis and a PhD from the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, Colorado State University, and the University of California at Davis. He studies the pathophysiological mechanisms of epilepsy, especially temporal lobe epilepsy that is the most common type of epilepsy in adults and frequently is refractory to treatment. He uses electrophysiological and anatomical techniques to examine the neuronal circuitry of temporal lobe structures in normal and epileptic brains. He has characterized the normal electrophysiological properties and connectivity of neurons in the hilus of the dentate gyrus - the most severely altered region of the brain in temporal lobe epilepsy, and described changes in neuron subpopulations, connectivity, and functional properties in the dentate gyrus of animal models of temporal lobe epilepsy (650) 498-4774
Corinna Darian-Smith, PhD, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine. Dr. Darian-Smith's research focuses on two main areas in her research: 1) the structural organization and function of central neural pathways (particularly of the thalamus and cortex) that underlie directed manual behavior, and 2) the capacity of these central neural pathways (circuits) to compensate/adapt following localized injury. Her laboratory uses anatomical, electro-physiological and behavioral approaches to look at the sensorimotor systems of nonhuman primates, and to examine the neural basis for functional 'recovery’ observed following the selective disruption of pathways mediating fine finger control. (650) 736-0969
Shaul Hestrin, PhD, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine. Dr. Hestrin's group is interested in the synaptic mechanisms that underlie the coordinated activity of neurons in local cortical circuits. They are recording from multiple individual cells that are synaptically connected in neocortical slices. They have recently discovered that electrical synapses connect fast spiking (FS) cells, which are specific type of inhibitory cortical neurons. These findings raise the hypothesis that groups of cells with similar roles may synchronize their spiking activity. Current studies include: 1) Defining the cell types that are inter-connected via electrical synapses. 2) What are the specific roles of chemical and electrical synapses in coordinating spike timing within a network? 3)The role of temporal patterns of action potential trains in short- and long-term synaptic plasticity. (650) 498-5086
Izumi Toyoda,
DVM received from University of California, Davis her BS
in Neurophysiology and Biochemistry in 2003, and her DVM in
2007. Having spent one summer at Stanford as a summer research
intern, Dr. Toyoda is now pursing a PhD in Neurosciences
in the laboratory of Dr. Paul Buckmaster, a DVM/PhD in the
Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford University.
(650) 498-6504
