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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
Phone: (865) 974-8387
FAX: (865) 974-5554
Avian & Zoological Medicine

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.