The Division of Comparative Pathology and Medicine is based in the Department of Pathology, UCSD. It is a part of the UC Veterinary Medical Center-San Diego (UC VMC-SD), a joint program of UCSD and UC Davis. Lynette Corbeil is the Division Head and the Co-Director of the UC- VMC-SD.
FACULTY:
Lynette B. Corbeil, DVM, PhD Professor and Head, Division of Comparative Pathology and Medicine, UCSD. Professor of Population Health and Reproduction, UC Davis.
Co-Director, UC Veterinary Medical Center-San Diego.
Kurt Benirschke, MD Professor Emeritus of Pathology
Bob Cardiff, MD Adjunct Professor of Pathology, UCSD, Professor of Pathology, UC Davis and Director of the UC Davis Mouse Biology Program’s Mutant Mouse Pathology Laboratory
Simon Frost, PhD Associate Adjunct Professor of Pathology
Keith Jenne, DVM *Non-salaried Assistant Clinical Professor, Animal Care Program
Dzung Le, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology; Director Murine Hematology/Chemistry and Coagulation Core laboratory
Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD. Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, and Co-director of the Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center at UCSD
Phil Richter, DVM, PhD Non-salaried Associate Clinical Professor, Animal Care Program
Sam Ridgway, DVM, PhD. Adjunct Professor of Pathology
Diane Shelton, DVM, PhD Adjunct Professor of Pathology; Director, Comparative Neuromuscular Laboratory
Christina Sigurdson, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology
Nissi Varki, MD Adjunct Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Director, Mouse Phenotyping Laboratory
Joe Vinetz, MD Professor of Medicine
*nonsalaried through the Department. Salary comes from the VC for Research
The Division fulfills the three-fold mission of the University as follows:
a) Teaching
i) Courses
PATH 223. Mouse Models of Human Disease. Course Directors: Lynette Corbeil and Lars Eckmann
PATH 222/ BIOM 282. Microbial Pathogenesis. Course Director: Lynette Corbeil
MED 234/ BIOM 234/ BGGN 234. Practical Histopathology in Mouse Models of Human Disease: Guides to Phenotyping the Genetically Altered Mouse. Course Director: Nissi Varki
ii) Seminars, Rounds and TV
Comparative Pathology Minisymposium Series. Host: Diane Shelton
Comparative Medicine Seminar Series: In collaboration with TSRI. Host: Beth Ford
Comparative Pathology Rounds: Based at TSRI. Host: Kent Osborn
Biomedical and Clinical Research Seminar Series: Host: Lynette Corbeil
People and Pets: Common Diseases. UCSD TV series. Co-host: Diane Shelton
iii) Residency
Lab Animal Medicine. Director: Phil Richter
Clinical Veterinary Microbiology - under development
b) Service
i) Pathology of Genetically Altered Mice. Director: Nissi Varki
ii) Clinical Pathology of Genetically Altered Mice. Director: Dzung Le
iii) Diagnostic Comparative Neuromuscular Pathology Laboratory. Director: Diane
Shelton
iv) Animal Care Program. Director: Phil Richter
v) Marine Mammal Pathology and Medicine. Oversight: Sam Ridgway
c) Research
Lynette Corbeil - Immunity and pathogenesis of trichomoniasis and Haemophilus somnus infection
Sam Ridgway - Marine mammal sensory and neurobiology
Kurt Benirschke - Web publications of Comparative Placentation http://medicine.ucsd.edu/cpa/
Nissi Varki - Terminal glycans and speciation
Diane Shelton - Neuromuscular diseases in animals with emphasis on myasthenia gravis and inflammatory myopathies of animals
Dzung Le - Thombosis and hemostasis
Bob Cardiff - Mouse models of breast cancer
Phil Richter and Keith Jenne - Smart vivarium project. Computer based evaluation of vision based animal health monitoring.