Professional Profile

Peter Constable’s influential career integrates veterinary scholarship, mentorship, and leadership at the highest levels. He is internationally known both for impactful and clinically relevant research and for statesmanship within veterinary academia. Since 2014 he has led the College of Veterinary Medicine with integrity, open-mindedness, and a deep commitment to the land-grant mission of teaching, research, and service.

Dean Constable’s research spans multiple species and disciplines, from diseases of cattle to biostatistics, veterinary education, and the cardiovascular response to endurance training in dogs. His work on abomasal diseases and acid-base and electrolyte disturbances in domestic animals has changed the practice of large animal medicine. Among his numerous international speaking engagements are multiple invited keynote presentations at the World Buiatrics Congress. He holds board certification in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Nutrition.

He has published more than 270 peer-reviewed articles and 50 book chapters and is lead author of Veterinary Medicine: A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Pigs, and Goats, now in its eleventh edition and the most heavily cited textbook in veterinary medicine. His mentorship includes serving as major advisor for eight PhD students and teaching dozens of residents, graduate students, and visiting scholars as well as thousands of veterinary students.

Notable awards recognizing Dean Constable include the Kirk Award for Professional Excellence from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, the Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Docteur Honoris Causa from the Université de Liège.

In 2024, he was named to the Louis I. Mund Professorship in Veterinary Medicine.

After completing his veterinary degree at the University of Melbourne in his native Australia, Dean Constable practiced in Australia and England. Then he went to The Ohio State University for an internship and residency in food animal medicine and surgery as well as master’s and PhD degrees in cardiovascular physiology. He was recruited to the University of Illinois, where he spent 13 years on the veterinary clinical medicine faculty. From 2006 to 2013 he served as head of the veterinary clinical sciences department at Purdue University, returning to Illinois as dean in 2014.

• Robert W. Kirk Award for Professional Excellence, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2023
  
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, 2019