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Faculty

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA: 1971-72
• Southwestern at Memphis, Memphis, TN: 1972-76, B.A.
• The University of Tennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine, Knoxville, TN: 1985-88, D.V.M.
• The University of Tennessee, Comparative and Experimental Medicine, Knoxville, TN, 1993-97, Ph.D.

Professional Experience

• Associate Veterinarian, Village Veterinary Hospital, Maryville, TN, 1988-90
• Medical Resident, Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine, Knoxville TN. 1990-95
• Study Pathologist, Cooperative Research and Development Award (Identification of genes affecting the immune system using chromosomal rearrangements in mice) University of Tennessee Department of Pathology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1996-97
• Instructor, Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine & Department of Surgery University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville TN, 1997-98
• Research Specialist / Director, Vascular Research Laboratory, Department of Surgery University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville TN 1998-2001
• Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine, Knoxville TN. 2001-

Board Certification

• Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists (Anatomic Pathology), 1994

Teaching

• Clinical necropsy rotations
• General pathology (healing and repair, immune-mediated disease, protein folding disease, neoplasia sections)
• Respiratory pathology
• Reproductive pathology

Clinical Interests

• Diagnostic anatomic pathology, (post-mortem and surgical pathology), Non-traditional species pathology, respiratory pathology

Professional Societies

• American College of Veterinary Pathologists

Research Interests

• Vascular Pathology, Amyloidosis, Obesity. Mycobacterium ulcerans

Publications

• Skillern CS, Stevens SL, Piercy KT, Donnell RL, Freeman MB, Goldman MH, Endotension in an experimental aneurysm model. JVasc Surg. 2002 36: 814-17
• Grandas OH, Costanza MJ, Donnell RL, Reddick TT, Carroll RC, Stevens SL, Freeman MB, Goldman MH. Effect of retroviral transduction of canine microvascular endothelial cells on -1integrin subunit expression and cell retention to PTFE grafts.Cardiovasc Surg 20019: 595-9.
• Piercy KT, Donnell RL, Kirkpatrick, SK, Mundy BL, Freeman MB, Stevens SL, Goldman MH. Effect of cell monolayer harvesting and sorting techniques on -1 integrin expression in canine microvascular cells. J Surgical Res 2001 100: 211-6
• Rowe VL, Stevens SL, Reddick TT, Freeman MB, Donnell RL, Goldman MH. Vascular endothelial growth factor in aneurysmal, occlusive and normal human aorta. J Vasc Surg 200031: 567-76.
• Allen RK, Reddick TT, Popp DM, Donnell RL, Freeman MB, Stevens SL, Goldman MH. Fluorescent activated cell sorting isolation of canine microvascular endothelial cells from adipose tissue. Methods in Cell Science 1998 19: 285-94
• Ellison GW, Donnell RL, Daniel GB. Nasopharyngeal cyst in a dog. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1995207
• Clyde VL, Schultze AE, Donnell R. Lateral wall mass in a goldfish. Vet Clin Path 1995 24:5,36.