Burgetta Eplin Wheeler

Feb 21, 2025

Meiklejohn, Saini chosen as University Faculty Scholars for 2025

Dr. Kelly Meiklejohn, associate professor, and Dr. Yogesh Saini, professor, both of the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, have been named University Faculty Scholars for 2025. The faculty scholars program, launched in 2012, recognizes outstanding academic achievements and teaching, service and scholarship contributions. Honorees carry the title through…

Feb 13, 2025

NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Names New Director of Extracorporeal Services

Dr. Yu Ueda, an associate clinical professor who is board-certified in critical and emergency care, has been named director of extracorporeal services at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine.  Extracorporeal therapy involves filtering and removing toxins from an animal’s bloodstream using highly specialized techniques and equipment. Services that fall under this scope include hemodialysis,…

Feb 7, 2025

Studies Led by NC State Associate Dean Propelling First Drug to Treat Feline Heart Condition to Market

The first drug found to successfully treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in cats has worked so well in clinical trials led by the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine’s associate dean of research that it is expected to receive expanded conditional approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March while a final pivotal study continues. …

Jan 7, 2025

Justice Agency Grants Keep Crime-Fighting Forensic Science Advancing at NC State

The National Institute of Justice has awarded Dr. Kelly Meiklejohn of the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine two grants totaling more than $600,000 to support her innovative and crime-fighting work in forensic biology. In collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Meiklejohn will use one grant to apply a new DNA method to…

Dec 12, 2024

App Created at NC State at the Center of Important USDA Plan to Track Swine

A cloud-based computer program developed at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine is the critical component in a US Department of Agriculture plan to begin tracking the movement of swine across the United States next year to prevent the spread of deadly diseases. The program, called the Rapid Access Biosecurity App or RABapp, allows…

Dec 10, 2024

Sheats Wins Equine Group’s Distinguished Educator Award

The American Association of Equine Practitioners has chosen Dr. Katie Sheats, associate dean and director of professional education and admissions at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, to receive its Distinguished Educator Award for 2024. The award recognizes educators who have demonstrated a significant impact on the development and training of equine practitioners. “Dr.…

Dec 3, 2024

In the Nephrology and Urology Veterinary Field, NC State Leading the Way

With the addition of two associate professors this year, the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine has the largest number of faculty members in the country who are affiliated with the new American College of Veterinary Nephrology and Urology, with six faculty members dedicated to the increasingly specialized field.  Dr. Autumn Harris, an established researcher…

Nov 20, 2024

Anatomy of an Exceptional and Life-Changing Professor

Occipital, parietal, temporal are words the first-year veterinary students will hear a lot over the next three hours as they examine the animal skulls on the lab tables in front of them, but first their anatomy professor offers these: “massive transition,” “right on track,” “very OK.” The possibly disappointing results of the first big test…

Oct 30, 2024

Sheats Appointed to New Role: Associate Dean and Director of Professional Education and Admissions

Dr. Katie Sheats, associate professor of equine primary care, has been chosen as the new associate dean and director of professional education and admissions at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine. Sheats, who received her DVM at NC State in 2005 and became part of the faculty in 2014, was instrumental in the development…

Oct 24, 2024

On the Feline Idiopathic Cystitis Front, NC State Now Sharing, Caring and Launching a New Study

Since an NC State College of Veterinary Medicine study showed last year that low-dose radiation therapy vastly improves hard-to-treat Feline Idiopathic Cystitis in male cats, the life-changing impact of that research has just kept expanding. The study — led by Dr. Allison Kendall, an assistant clinical professor of small animal internal medicine, and Dr. Michael…