Veterinary Clinical Sciences

*Kelly Black, DVM, DACVPM—Hospital Director and Interim VCS Department Head

The Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences (VCS) is one of three academic departments at the CVM. The Veterinary Clinical Sciences faculty are an integral part of the Boren Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. The faculty train veterinary students through didactic teaching and hands-on clinical training and provide the highest quality of care to clients and patients. In addition to training veterinary students, there are several residents and interns in various sections of the hospital who are guided by the VCS faculty.

Visit the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital webpage to learn more about the faculty and staff and the services they provide.

Internship and Residency Programs

The VCS department offers graduate professional programs (internships and residencies). Internships are one-year post-DVM clinical training programs. 

Internships are designed in part to prepare DVM graduates for residencies or graduate academic programs. Currently, internships are offered in mixed animal rotating, equine internal medicine and surgery rotating, small animal emergency and critical care, small animal internal medicine, equine surgery & sports medicine, food animal medicine & surgery, shelter medicine and surgery, ophthalmology, theriogenology, and avian, exotics, and zoological medicine.

Residencies are three-year clinical programs in various disciplines designed in part to prepare for specialty board certification. Currently, residencies are offered in equine internal medicine, equine surgery, food animal medicine and surgery, ophthalmology, theriogenology, and avian, exotics, and zoological medicine.

Graduate academic programs may be available in association with residencies.

Application Procedure

Most open positions are listed in the Veterinary Internship/Residency Matching Program at www.virmp.org and applications are submitted through the VIRMP. Some programs may be offered outside the match.

*Board Certification in Specialty Area

Regents Professor and Endowed Chairs: Kenneth Bartels, DVM, MS, and Cohn Family Chair for Animal Care (emeritus); *Ana Costa, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM) and Tracy Kyle Chair; *Lyndi Gilliam, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (LAIM) and Jack and June Jacobs Chair; G. Reed Holyoak, DVM, PhD, DACT, Regent's Professor and Bullock Professor; *Michael D. Lorenz, DVM, DACVIM, and Regents Service Professor (emeritus); *Amanda Samuels, VMD, PhD, DACVIM (LAIM) and McCasland Clinical Professorship; *Michael J. Schoonover, DVM, MS, DACVS, DACVCMR and Ricks-Rapp Professorship; *Lara Sypniewski, DVM, DABVP, and Henthorne Clinical Professorship; *J.T. Walker, DVM, MS, DACVS-SA and Cohn Family Chair
Professors: *Joseph Alexander, DVM, DACVS (President, CIED) (emeritus); *Kenneth Bartels, DVM, MS (emeritus); *Melanie Boileau, DVM, MS, DACVIM (LAIM); *Lionel J. Dawson, BVSc, MS, DACT; *Lyndi Gilliam, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (LAIM); *Margi A. Gilmour, DVM, MS, DACVO (emeritus); *G. Reed Holyoak, DVM, PhD, DACT; *John P. Hoover, DVM, MS, DACVIM, DABVP (emeritus); *Charles G. MacAllister, DVM, DACVIM (emeritus); *Mark Neer, DVM, DACVIM (emeritus); *Carlos Risco, DVM, DACT (emeritus); *Michael J. Schoonover, DVM, MS, DACVS-LA, DACVSMR; *Richard Shawley, DVM, MS, DACVA (emeritus)
Associate Professors: *Robert J. Bahr, DVM, DACVR (emeritus); *Mary H. Bowles, DVM, DACVIM (emeritus); *John Kirkpatrick, DVM, DABVP (emeritus); Carolynn T. MacAllister, DVM (emeritus); *Gregor L. Morgan, MVSc, PhD, DACT (emeritus); *Megan Williams, DVM, DACVS-LA
Assistant Professors: Gianluca Bini, DVM, MRCVS, DACVAA; Rosslyn Biggs, DVM; Giovana Catandi, DVM, PhD, DACT; Andreza Conti Patara, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVECC; Myriam Jimenez, DVM, MS, PhD; *Dale Kelley, DVM, MS, PhD, DACT; *Shari Kennedy, DVM, DACVIM-LIAM
Clinical Professors: *John Gilliam, DVM, MS, DAVBP (bovine), DACVIM (LAIM); *Marjorie Gross, DVM, MS, DACVA (emeritus); *Robert Streeter, DVM, MS, DACVIM (emeritus); *Lara A. Sypniewski, DVM, DABVP
Clinical Associate Professors: *Ana Costa, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM); *Paul DeMars, DVM, DABVP; *Marco Lopes, DVM, PhD, DACVS-LA; Katrina Meinkoth, DVM (emeritus); Sarah Peakheart, DVM; *J.T. Walker, DVM, DACVS-SA; *Chase Whitfield, DVM, MS, DACVS-LA
Clinical Assistant Professors: Jason Anton, DVM; David Bailey, DVM; *Kelli Beavers, DVM, DAVBP (equine), DACT; *Kelly Black, DVM, DACVPM; Katie Cantrell, DVM; Daniel Christensen, DVM; Brandy L. Close, PhD, MEd; *Emilia Terradas Crespo, LV, MS, DACVECC; Leandro Fadel, DVM, MSc; Leticia Fanucchi, DVM, PhD; Taylor Farris, DVM; Katharine Hausmann Farris; DVM; Alexis Jennings, DVM; *Dana Liska, DVM, DACVD; Marco Magliacano, DVM, MRCVS; *A.J. Manship, DVM, DACVIM (LAIM); *Emily McCool, DVM, MS, DACVO; *Julianne McCready, DVM, DVSc, DACZM; M. Blake Murray, DVM; Franciele Panato Back, MV; Marcelo Rodrigues de Oliveira, MV; Brandon M. Raczkoski, PhD; Melissa Raymond, DVM; *Amanda Samuels, VMD, PhD, DACVIM (LAIM); Isabelle Soga, DVM; *Kelsey Walker, DVM, MS, CVA, DACVIM (LAIM); Jenny Wyrick, DVM
Teaching Associate Professors: Stephanie Frisbee, PhD
Teaching Assistant Professors: *Allison Biddick, DVM, MS, DACVECC; *Nancy Henslee, DVM; Kaitlin Mielnicki, DVM 
Adjunct Associate Professors: *Drew Hanzlicek, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM); *Cheryl Lopate, DVM, MS, DACT
Adjunct Assistant Professors: *Kay Backues, DVM, DACZM; Derek Burney, DVM; *Brent Hague, DVM, DACVS; Gretchin Cole, DVM
Adjunct Clinical Instructors: Kyle Abbott, DVM; Chad Baumwart, DVM; Corynn Cackler, DVM; Laura Embry, DVM; Mika Ford, DVM; Ashley French, DVM; Beverly Fritzler, DVM; Kathy Graf, DVM; *Tiffany Granone, DVM, DACVAA; Mark Higgins, DVM; David Hille, DVM; Steven Hodges, DVM; Tracei Holder, DVM; Ron Hooley, DVM; Mike Jones, DVM; Lauren Lamb, DVM; Joseph Landers, DVM; Aimee Lenz, DVM; Kevin Long, DVM; Troy McNamara, DVM; Jarrod Roach, DVM; Angie Semple DVM; Mark Shackelford, DVM; Kerry Shafer-Ray, DVM; Andrew Willis, DVM
Lecturers: David Wallace, DVM; *Elizabeth Soler, DVM, DACVO
Residents: Larissa Boruk, DVM, Equine Internal Medicine (2026-2029); Alondra Crespo-Rivera, DVM, Food Animal Internal Medicine (2026-2029); Greta Doden, DVM, Zoological Medicine (2024-2027); Amber Hampton, DVM, Theriogenology (2024-2027); Barbara da Silva Andrade, BA, Theriogenology (2025-2028); Martin Garces, DVM, Theriogenology (2025-2028); Chiara Morelli, DVM, Equine Internal Medicine (2025-2028); Santiago Rodriguez, MV, Equine Surgery (2026-2029); Sarah Winkler, DVM, Equine Surgery (2025-2028)
Interns: Cassidy Brunson, DVM, Small Animal ER; Daneeya Guthrie, DVM, Ophthalmology; Usman Khalid, DVM, Equine Medicine and Surgery; Anna Perreand, DVM, Equine Medicine and Surgery, DVM; Kristine Powell, DVM, Mixed Animal Rotating; Margaret Prichett, DVM, Zoological Medicine; Stephanie Sila, DVM, Zoological Medicine; Jamie Smith, DVM, Mixed Animal Rotating

*Board Certification in Specialty Area