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News from the College of Veterinary Medicine University of Illinois 3225 Vet. Med. Basic Sciences Bldg. 2001 S. Lincoln Ave. Urbana, IL 61802 |
November 18, 2008 Release on |
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Chris Beuoy 217/244-1562 beuoy@illinois.edu |
Veterinary Teaching Hospital Adds Critical Care Specialists
Two veterinarians who are board certified by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care - Dr. Pamela Wilkins and Dr. Mauria "Mo" O'Brien - have recently joined the faculty at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in Urbana.This brings to three the number of emergency/critical care specialists providing care at the College's Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
Dr. Pamela Wilkins was hired as a full professor to head the equine medicine and surgery section. She earned bachelor's, doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM), master's, and PhD degrees from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. For the past 11 years, she has been on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. There she started the equine emergency and critical care academic section in 2002, serving as its chief until joining the Illinois equine program this fall.
Dr. Wilkins is boarded in internal medicine as well as in emergency and critical care. Her areas of research interest range from the care of the critically ill foal to lactate concentrations and bacterial blood cultures as indicators of disease severity and prognosis to cardiorespiratory disease in horses of all ages.
Dr. O'Brien is a clinical assistant professor working in the area of small animal emergency/critical care. She received a bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and a DVM at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After spending nine years in small animal general practice, she completed a residency in emergency and critical care at the Animal Emergency Center in Glendale, Wis., and passed the board examination in fall 2008.
At Illinois, Dr. O'Brien will focus on developing the small animal emergency and critical care service and will participate in clinical investigations of antioxidant therapies and coagulation studies.
The Veterinary Teaching Hospital at the University of Illinois sees more than 15,000 animal patients every year and offers a range of specialty services from minimally invasive surgery and rehabilitation therapy to radiation and chemotherapy for animals with cancer, round-the-clock emergency services, and ongoing critical care support for all species.
It is located on Hazelwood Drive, just west of Lincoln Avenue, in Urbana, Ill. More information is available at vetmed.illinois.edu/vth/ or 217/333-2000 for large animal services, 217/333-5300 for small animal services.