Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences (VCS)

VCS faculty members offer courses that prepare veterinary medical students to achieve day 1 professional competence or continue further specialty training. Faculty members offer courses in anesthesiology, animal behavior and welfare, diagnostic imaging, equine medicine, exotic animal medicine, laboratory animal medicine, large animal medicine and surgery, small animal medicine and surgery, veterinary professional skills courses, and clinical training of students during 4th year clerkships in collaboration with the Distributive Veterinary Educators Consortium (DVEC). DVEC faculty hold adjunct appointments.

Department Directory

Jerry Roberson, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (LAIM)
Professor & Head of Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Yuliya Bashkatova-Mills DVM
Associate Professor, Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Tara Bellis, BVetMed, MRCVS, DACVECC
Associate Professor, Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Keith Bogatch DVM
Associate Professor, Equine Medicine

Sukolrat Boonyayatra, DVM, MS, PhD, DTBVPH, DTBVM
Associate Professor & Director of Veterinary Skills

Gianira Candelario, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM)
Associate Professor, Small Animal Medicine

Alanna Chesney-Manz, DVM
Associate Professor, Clinical Sciences

Alison L. Flanigan, DVM, VSW
Associate Professor, Veterinary Clinical Skills and Clinical Year Mentor

Geoffrey Fosgate, DVM, PhD, DACVPM
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Professor, Veterinary Epidemiology

Luis Pablo Hervé Claude, DVM, PhD, MPVM
Associate Professor, Veterinary Skills and Clinical Field Liaison

Patrick Hopper, DVM, DACVIM, (SAIM)
Professor, Small Animal Medicine

Mohammad Ibrahim, BVSc, MS, PhD, DACT
Associate Professor, Theriogenology

Stephanie Jacoby, DVM, MS
Assistant Professor, Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Alex Jakubik, DVM
Clinical Assistant Professor, Veterinary Clinical Skills

Yujin Kim, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor, Small Animal Medicine and Surgery

George Kramer, DVM, DACVIM
Professor, Small Animal Medicine, Cardiology

Sarah Leavell, DVM, CCRT, cVMA
Assistant Professor, Veterinary Skills and Primary Care Veterinarian

Andrea Looney, DVM
Professor, Anesthesiology