Edward C. Ramsay, DVM, DACZM
Professor of Avian & Zoological Medicine
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Tennessee
C247 Veterinary Teaching Hospital
2407 River Road
Knoxville, TN 37996
College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Tennessee
C247 Veterinary Teaching Hospital
2407 River Road
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: (865) 974-8387
FAX: (865) 974-5554
Email: eramsay@utk.edu
Education
- BA, San Jose State University, California, 1976
- DVM, University of California, Davis, 1980
Board Certification
- American College of Zoological Medicine
Clinical Interests
- Captive and free living wildlife medicine
- Non-domestic felid medicine
Research Interests
- Salmonella spp. in reptiles
- Bear physiology
Professional Societies
- American Association of Zoo Veterinarians - President 2006-2007
- Wildlife Disease Association
Publications
- Bemis DA, Grupka LM, Liamthong S, Folland DW, Sykes JM, Ramsay EC. Clonal relatedness of Salmonella isolates associated with invasive infections in captive and wild-caught rattlesnakes. J Microbiol 120:300-307, 2009.
- Grupka LM, Ramsay EC, Bemis DA. Salmonella survey in a collection of rattlesnakes (Crotalus spp.). J Zoo Wildl Med 37:306-312, 2006.
- Frank N, Elliott S, Ramsay EC. Blood lipid concentrations and lipoprotein profiles in captive and wild bears (Ursus americanus). Am J Vet Res 67:335-341, 2006.
- Storms T, Beazley SL, Schumacher J, Ramsay EC. Thyroidcystadenoma, colloid goiter, and hypothryoidism in an American black bear (Ursus americanus). J Zoo Wildl Med35:82-87, 2004.
- Bemis DA, Owston MA, Lickey ALA, Kania SA, Rohrbach BW, Ramsay EC. Genetic relatedness and in vitro cell invasion of extraintestinal Salmonella enterica subsp. arizonaeisolates from a colony of ridgenose rattlesnakes with osteomyelitis. J Vet Diag Invest 15:382-387, 2003.
- Lewis CE, Bemis DA, Ramsay EC. Positive effects of diet change on fecal shedding of Salmonella spp. in captive felids. J Zoo Wildl Med 33:83-84, 2002.
- Ramsay EC, Daniel DG, Merryman JI, Tryon BW, Morris PJ, Bemis DA. Osteomyelitis associated Salmonella enterica ssarizonae in a colony of ridgenose rattlesnakes (Crotalus willardi). J Zoo Wildl Med 33:301-309, 2002.
- Clyde VL, Ramsay EC, Bemis DA. Fecal shedding of Salmonella in exotic felids. J Zoo Wildl Med 28:148-152, 1997.

