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Sarel R. Van Amstel, BVSc, dipmed vet, m med vet (med), DABVP, DACVIM

Education

• University of Pretoria, South Africa
• BVSc -- 1966
• Dip Med Vet -- 1978
• M Med Vet (Med) -- 1982
• Diplomate, American Board of Veterinary Practitioners - 2000
• Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine - 2001

Board Certification

• South African Internal Medicine Boards
• American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, Food Animal
• American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Training

• Residency in Large Animal Internal Medicine: College of VetMedicine, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Residency in Large Animal Internal Medicine: College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee
• Diplomate: Lameness and Hoof Trimming: IPC Dairy Training Center Friesland, Netherlands

Teaching

• Ruminant:
  • Gastroenterology
  • Musculo-Skeletal

Clinical Interests

• Medicine and Surgery: Cattle, Camelids, and Small Ruminants
• Cattle Lameness

Research Interests

• Cattle Lameness
• Camelid Medicine

Professional Societies

• AABP - American Association of Bovine Practitioners
• AASRP - American Association of Small Ruminent Practitioners
• American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
• American Board of Veterinary Practitioners

Publications

• van Amstel SR, Shearer JK, Palin FL, Cooper Joan, Rogers G. The effect of parity, days in milk, season and walking surface on thin soles in dairy cattle. 14th International Symposium on Lameness in Ruminants, Colonia, Uruguay, November 7th – 11th, 2006: 142-143.
• van Amstel SR, Shearer JK, Palin FL. (2006). Review of Pododermatitis Circumscripta (Ulceration of the Sole) in Dairy Cows. J Vet Intern Med2006 20: 805-811
• van Amstel SR, Shearer JK, Palin FL. (2004). Moisture Content, Sole Thickness, and Lesions of Sole Horn Associated with Thin Soles in Dairy Cattle. Journal of Dairy Science 87:757-763
• van Amstel SR, Palin FL, Rorhbach BW, Shearer JK. (2003). Ultrasound measurement of sole horn thickness in trimmed claws of dairy cows. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 233 (4)
• van Amstel SR, Shearer JK, Palin FL. (2003). Case report -- Clinical Response to Treatment of Pododermatitis Circumscripta (ulceration of the sole) in Dairy Cows. The Bovine Practitioner 37 (2) 138-145.
• Tutt C, van Amstel SR, van der Linde MJ, Reyers F, Jacogson LS. (2003). Effect of dimethyl sulphoxide in the treatment of sheep experimentally infected with Ehrlichia ruminantium. American Journal of Veterinary Research 16 (120 1542-1549
• van Amstel SR, Palin FL, Shearer JK, Robinson BF. (2002). Anatomical measurement of sole thickness in cattle following two different trimming techniques. The Bovine Practitioner 36, (2) 136-140.