Present Position:

Assistant Professor
Program in Neuroscience
Dept. of Veterinary & Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University

Education:

• Attended the University of Colorado, 1983-1986
• DVM, Colorado State University, 1990
• Internship, The University of Georgia, 1990-1991
• Residency, Then University of Georgia, 1994-1997
• PhD, The University of Georgia, 1997
• Board Certification, Large Animal Internal Medicine, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 1997

Current Memberships:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
• American Gastroenterological Association
• American Motility Society
• Comparative Gastroenterology Society
• Society for Neuroscience

Research Interests:

Neurogastroenterology; current projects include:

• Inhibitory mechanisms in the cecum of the horse
• Voltage-gated sodium channel subunits in the enteric nervous system
• Presynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in the enteric nervous system
• New: Prion disease and the enteric nervous system
• New: Functional analysis of animal models of pseudo-obstructive disease in children

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