Archives: Staff

Diana Dabdub brings over 19 years of association management experience to her role as the AAVMC’s Senior Director for Admissions and Recruitment Affairs. In this role, she develops and implements programs and initiatives related to admissions and recruitment activities at AAVMC member institutions and serves as project manager/staff liaison on special projects that support the […]

Dr. Caroline Cantner joined the AAVMC in January 2020 as Director for Professional Development. Dr. Cantner brings five years of association experience through her work as AVMA’s Assistant Director for Student Initiatives, Western Region. During her years with the AVMA, Dr. Cantner provided support to the colleges of veterinary medicine in her region and managed […]

Kevin Cain joined the AAVMC in 2012 as Director for Governmental Affairs. In that role, he works to educate Congress and the administration on the challenges and opportunities facing academic veterinary medicine. Prior to coming to the AAVMC, Kevin worked as Vanderbilt University’s Director of Governmental Affairs for Health and Biomedical Sciences. Kevin served as […]

Dr. Regina Schoenfeld-Tacher, professor of veterinary educational development in the NCSU-CVM’s Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, is Editor-in-Chief of the JVME. Schoenfeld-Tacher served as a member of the JVME Editorial Board since 2007, and as a Guest Editor and Handling Editor since 2012. Over the past 21 years, she has authored or co-authored 82 refereed […]

Sheila Allen is Senior Accreditation Advisor for the AAVMC.  Allen works in cooperation with the Director of Education and Research of the AVMA to provide administrative support for the Council on Education, the accrediting agency for veterinary medical education.  Allen served on the Council on Education from 2007-2013. Prior to assuming this role, Sheila served […]

Ms. Amina Karedia is a second-year veterinary student at Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS). She is the Senior Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA) delegate for Texas A&M CVMBS and the AAVMC Liaison for the Educational and Professional Development Committee within SAVMA. During the summer of 2019, she was […]

Dr. Roger B. Fingland is Vice Dean at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. At Ohio State, he also serves as a tenured professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine in Department of Clinical Sciences and as chief medical officer of the Veterinary Medical System. The medical system includes all divisions of the […]

Dr. Christina Sigurdson is a professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego, where she is a co-director of the Center for Veterinary Sciences and Comparative Medicine. She is also a professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology at the University of California, Davis. Before arriving at UC San Diego, she earned a BS […]

Dr. Horohov is the Jes E. and Clementine M. Schlaikjer Endowed Chair of the Department of Veterinary Science and director of the Gluck Equine Research Center at the University of Kentucky. As chair, he is involved in a collaborative agreement between his program and the College of Veterinary Medicine at Lincoln Memorial University. Previously, (1995-2003) […]

Dr. Callanan is a board-certified veterinary pathologist and dean of the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. Prior to his appointment as dean in 2016, Dr. Callanan served as professor of veterinary pathology, director of postgraduate studies, and head of both the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Center for Integrative Mammalian Research. His research […]