Journal of Veterinary Science & Medicine

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Huaguang Lu
Dr. Huaguang Lu

is a Clinical Professor and Avian Virologist in the Animal Diagnostic Lab at Penn State University. His research areas are focused on avian influenza and other avian respiratory/enteric viral diseases, diagnostic assays and monoclonal antibodies development. He has served as an International Laboratory Consultant on the United Nation’s FAO and USAID Avian Influenza Programs.

Dr. Iryna Sorokulova
Dr. Iryna Sorokulova

Professor of Microbiology, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA. Her research is focused on the development of new microbial approaches for detection and control of pathogens. She created several biotechnological products; some of them are commercially available.

Dr. Margarita G. Papazahariadou
Dr. Margarita G. Papazahariadou

Professor, Laboratory of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her Research Interests include Parasitic fauna (detection and identification) of protozoa, helminths and arthropods of all animals and man as well as on prevention and therapy of many parasitic diseases.

Dr. Efterpi Christaki
Dr. Efterpi Christaki

Professor of Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research is focused on the use of various agricultural by-products in animal nutrition, functional foods and bioactive substances, feed, performance of productive animals and the quality of their products, potential uses of various aromatic plants or their extracts.

Dr. Panagiota Florou-Paneri
Dr. Panagiota Florou-Paneri

Professor of Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her current research is focused on agricultural by-products, functional foods and bioactive substances, feeds and feedstuffs, potential uses of various aromatic plants and their extracts and supplementation of feeds with special nutritional agents.

Dr. Byeong Chun Lee
Dr. Byeong Chun Lee

is a Professor of Theriogenology and Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Korea. He produced the first cloned dog, Snuppy and the first transgenic cloned dogs, Ruppy using somatic cell nuclear transfer. His research includes producing and elucidating characterization of human disease model and xenotransplantation in dogs and pigs.

Dr. Mahendra Pal
Dr. Mahendra Pal

is ex-Professor of Veterinary Public Health (UNDP), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Africa. Presently working as Consultant of VPH and Microbiology. His research interests are Zoonoses, Medical Mycology, Food Microbiology and Epidemiology of mycoses. He is known as Father of Veterinary Mycology in India.

Dr. Vicki L. Campbell
Dr. Vicki L. Campbell

is presently an Associate Professor of Emergency and Critical Care at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. After a combined residency in emergency/critical care and anesthesia at the University of Pennsylvania, she became boarded in both anesthesia and emergency/critical care. Her main areas of interest include perioperative critical care, sepsis, dialysis, shock, and ventilation.

Dr. Gard
Dr. Gard

is an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at AUCVM. She is boarded in Theriogenology, Bovine specialty and her PhD work involved BVDV and embryo transfer. Her interests include: embryo technologies, mastitis, BVDV, trichomoniasis, emergency preparedness, as well as studies involving foot development in cattle.

Dr. Lysimachos G. Papazoglou
Dr. Lysimachos G. Papazoglou

is serving as Associate Professor in Small Animal Surgery at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece. His main clinical and research interests include all aspects of soft tissue surgery and especially, head and neck, abdominal, upper airway, cardiothoracic, plastic and reconstructive and oncologic surgery.

Dr. Serafim A. Papadimitriou
Dr. Serafim A. Papadimitriou

is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Dentistry in Companion Animal Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a Veterinarian and a Dentist and he elaborated his PhD thesis in dog periodontitis. His main areas of interest include companion animal dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Dr. Nikolaos D. Soultos
Dr. Nikolaos D. Soultos

Associate Professor, Laboratory of Hygiene of Foods of Animal Origin, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His Research Interests include microbiological conditions, isolation and identification of microorganisms of interest (pathogens, spoilage, starters) and improvement on the quality control of foods of animal origin.

Dr. Tawfik Aboellail
Dr. Tawfik Aboellail

is an Assistant Professor in Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pthaology, Colorado State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories. He is a board certified anatomic pathologist with extensive experience of diagnostic pathology from working in 5 different veterinary schools. His research interests are focused on HIV infection of humanized mice, animal models of high impact pathogens.

Dr. Girish Kirimanjeswara
Dr. Girish Kirimanjeswara

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research focuses on Infectious Diseases particularly that of Francisella and Bordetella spp. His areas of expertise include bacterial genetics, immunology, and nutrition.

Dr. Natalia Smirnova
Dr. Natalia Smirnova

is an an Assistant Professor at the Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University. Her current research is focused on immunology of infectious diseases, namely on studying intrinsic mechanisms of the development of fetal and maternal immune response to transplacental flavivirus infections.

Dr. Dongqing (David) Zhang
Dr. Dongqing (David) Zhang

is an Assistant Professor and Medical Physicist (ABR certified) in Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences and Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University. His research interests are generalized radiobiological models, functional imaging markers in predicting radiotherapy outcome.

Dr. Narda G Robinson
Dr. Narda G Robinson

leads the CSU Center for Comparative & Integrative Pain Medicine. She teaches medical acupuncture, massage, herbology & laser therapy as an Assistant Professor in scientific & evidence-based integrative medicine at Colorado State University. Both an osteopathic physician and veterinarian, she sees One Medicine as also bridging human and veterinary complementary and alternative medicine.

Dr. Satyanaryana Pondugula
Dr. Satyanaryana Pondugula

is an an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University. His current research is focused on pregnane xenobiotic receptor regulation of drug and steroid metabolism. In addition, he is interested in discovering novel therapeutic approaches for treating malignant lymphoma in dogs and humans.

Dr. Jhones Sarturi
Dr. Jhones Sarturi

is an Assistant Professor of Beef Cattle Nutrition and Rumen Metabolism in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences at Texas Tech University, USA. At TTU, his research/teaching appointment has focus on development of strategies to improve byproducts in cattle diets.

Dr. Camille Szmaragd
Dr. Camille Szmaragd

is currently a statistical modeller working jointly within the Animal Behaviour and Welfare and the Centre for Multilevel Modelling at Bristol University. She has experience in working with complex and large datasets in the context of human population genetics and veterinary epidemiology. Her main research interests are in the field of veterinary epidemiology and disease modelling.

Dr. Chris Palgrave
Dr. Chris Palgrave

is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology at Bristol University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and has a particular interest in farm animal pathology and the ‘one health’ concept, including infectious and zoonotic disease, immunogenetics, food security and large animal models. He is also interested in comparative and diagnostic pathology in companion animal species.

Dr. Ying Cheng
Dr. Ying Cheng

is an Assistant Research Professor at the Poultry Diagnostic Research Center in the Department of Population Health, University of Georgia. Her current research interests are: development of new generation of live-attenuated ILTV vaccines using advanced genetic & molecular approaches and developing new methods for prevention of pathogenic bacteria in poultry.

Dr. Hui Wang
Dr. Hui Wang

is currently working as Assistant Professor in Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutics Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His current research is focused on discovering natural veterinary medicine and alternative veterinary medicine. He is interested in animal nutrition metabolic, veterinary pharmacology and veterinary immunology.

Dr. Leyi Wang
Dr. Leyi Wang

is a Laboratory Scientist of virology section in the Animal Diagnostic Lab at Ohio Department of Agriculture. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in molecular virology at the Ohio State University. His research interests are focused on development of diagnostic assays and vaccines for animal infectious diseases.

Dr. Ioannis Savvas
Dr. Ioannis Savvas

is serving as an Assistant Professor of Veterinary Anaesthesia, Unit of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care in Companion Animal Clinic of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His Research interests include gastro-oesophageal reflux during anaesthesia, peri-operative analgesia, shock, trans-diaphragmatic pressure measurement and atelectasis.

Dr. Ioannis Hadjigeorgiou
Dr. Ioannis Hadjigeorgiou

was appointed as Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the Department of Nutrition Physiology and Feeding in Agricultural University of Athens. He is also worked as scientific advisor in animal feed mills and in the Ministry of Agriculture. His research interests include Grazing land management and Animal Nutrition.

Dr. Christos Balaskas
Dr. Christos Balaskas

is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Histology in Agricultural University of Athens. His research interests involve histochemistry of animal tissues affected by pesticides and gastrointestinal histology (goblet cells, enteric nervous system, and gut associated lymphoid tissue) and maternal under nutrition effect.

Dr. Tatsuya Usui
Dr. Tatsuya Usui

is an Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, Yamaguchi University, Japan and also Visiting Assistant Professor of Department of Haematology at Stanford university. His current research interests are cancer biology, cancer angiogenesis, three dimensional organoids culture, toxicology and signal transduction.

Dr. Anantharaman Muthuswamy
Dr. Anantharaman Muthuswamy

is a Veterinary Pathologist, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Wisconsin, Madison. His principal interests are in diagnostic pathology, neuropathology and neuro-oncology. Actively involved in diagnostic/investigative pathology and teaching and to carryout extensive research in neuropathology for the improvement of human and animal health.

Dr. Emad Ata has a PhD degree in the Veterinary Infectious Diseases with joint supervision from Gifu University, Japan. He is a researcher at the Parasitology and Animal Diseases Department, Veterinary Research Division, National Research Centre, Egypt and his research interest is developing of new tools for diagnosis of the infectious diseases, molecular epidemiology, control of infectious diseases