Faculty & Staff

Standing Faculty:

Margret Casal, Dr. med. vet., Ph.D. Dipl. ECAR (Reproduction)
Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics

Peter J. Felsburg, V.M.D., Ph.D.
Trustee Professor of Clinical Immunology

Urs Giger, PD, Dr. med. vet., M.S., F.V.H. - Dipl. ACVIM, ECVIM, ECVCP
Charlotte Newton Sheppard Professor
Chief of the Section of Medical Genetics

Mark E. Haskins, V.M.D., M.S., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Medical Genetics

Paula Henthorn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medical Genetics

Petra Werner, Dr. med. vet.
Research Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics

Associate Faculty Members:

Michael Atchison, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry

Peter F. Jezyk, V.M.D., Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Medicine

Eldin A. Leighton, M.S., Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medical Genetics

Donald F. Patterson, DVM, DSc
Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Medical Genetics, Veterinary School
Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics, School of Medicine

Charles Vite, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Residents, Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students:
Eva Tcherneva, VMD - Postdoctoral Research Specialist
Jamie Rhodes, VMD - Resident in Medical Genetics
Karen Jackson, DVM - Transfusion Medical Fellow

Research Specialists and Other Staff:
Wenge Ding - Research Assistant
Darrell Dise - Research Specialist
Patricia L. Green - Coordinator, Computerized Canine Genetics
   Disease Information System
Angie Huff - Metabolic Lab Research Specialist
Doug Kennedy - Immunology Research Specialist
Junlong Liu - Postdoctoral Research Specialist
Thomas O'Malley - Medical Genetics Research Specialist
Patty O'Donnell - Animal Research Specialist
Ulana Prociuk - Cytogenetics Research Specialist
Michael Raducha - Molecular Genetics Research Specialist
Susan Scheerbaum- Medical Genetics and PennGen Administrative
   Assistant
Adam Seng - Deubler Laboratory Research Specialist
Ping Wang - Research Specialist