Brent Credille, DVM

University of Georgia CVM / Athens, GA

Dr. Brent Credille is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia.  He currently serves as Service Chief of the Field Services section of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.  He completed his DVM training at UGA, an internship in Livestock Medicine and Surgery at Colorado State University, a Large Animal Internal Medicine Residency and PhD in Physiology/Pharmacology at UGA.  The goal of Dr. Credille’s research program is to better understand the epidemiology, mechanisms and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Mannheimia haemolytica.  Additionally, his research program is evaluating the differences in cell-mediated immune responses to viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens in beef calves at high and low risk of developing BRD.  Furthermore, his lab is currently evaluating the utility of biomarkers as predictors of future BRD events in stocker cattle.  Long term, he hopes to use the information he obtains from his studies to develop antimicrobial use and management strategies that improve the health and welfare of beef cattle throughout North America.

Ronald Genovese, VMD

Cleveland Equine Clinic-Retired/ Cleveland, OH

Dr. Ron Genovese graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 with his DVM.  He is now a retired equine practitioner in Cleveland, Ohio and a consultant to Cleveland Equine Clinic of Ravenna Ohio and Vet Graft Stem Cell Company.

Margaret Mudge, VMD, DACVS, DACVECC

Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center / Columbus, OH

Dr. Margaret Mudge received her VMD from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed an internship at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, KY. She then completed a residency in Equine Surgery at the University of California at Davis, and became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2005. Margaret moved to the Ohio State University to continue her training with a fellowship in Emergency and Critical Care, and became a diplomate of the American College of Emergency & Critical Care in 2007. She is currently professor of Equine Emergency & Critical Care & Surgery at the Ohio State University. Margaret’s clinical and research interests include gastrointestinal emergencies and transfusion medicine.

Rick Tubbs, DVM

Tubbs Contract Research Organization / Oakman, AL

I graduated from the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1983.  For two years after that I practiced general veterinary medicine in central Georgia before going to Mississippi State University as a resident/graduate student in swine reproduction.  Upon completing the M.S. degree in 1987 I remained on faculty at MSU doing teaching, service and research in swine medicine and production until early 1991.  In 1991 I moved to the University of Missouri as the swine extension veterinarian in the Commercial Agriculture Program where I was part of an interdisciplinary team that provided advice and education to veterinarians, swine producers and other participants in the pork production chain.  While working at MU I obtained an MBA degree from William Woods University in Fulton, MO.  In late 1996 I left the university to become a partner in Green River Animal Hospital, a 3-person food animal practice in Bowling Green, KY.  While at GRAH, I provided herd health and other consultation and veterinary services to breeding stock and commercial production companies in Kentucky and Tennessee as well as around the country.

In 2011, I left GRAH, and while continuing to provide service to much of the same clientele as before, in partnership with my 3 sons, formed Tubbs Contract Research Organization, a company that provides contract research facilities and services to the animal health industry.  We also own and operate Tubbs Livestock Company, a cow-calf operation in northwest Alabama.

I am board-certified in the American College of Theriogenologists. I am a past president of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians and have been involved in many committees of the AASV.  I served on the National Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners (now the International Council on Veterinary Assessments) from 2004-2013, including a term as chair, and continue to serve on 2 committees for the ICVA (Collaboration Governance and Assessment Development).  I have been a member of the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine Alumni Advisory Council since 2013 and am currently the Chair. I have been an accreditation site visitor for the AVMA Council on Education since 2014. I am a volunteer in the Operation Mainstreet Program for the National Pork Board and in the Swine Veterinarian Advocacy Program for the National Pork Producers Council.

Dan Ward, DVM

University of Tennessee CVM / Knoxville, TN

Undergraduate – Christian Brothers College, Memphis (1978-1981)
Vet school – UT, graduated 1985
General practice – Greenville SC 1985-1986
Residency in Ophthalmology – University of Georgia, 1986-1989
PhD – Pharmacology, University of Georgia, 1990
Faculty member – UTCVM, 1990-present

Research interests:  Philosophy and psychology and education
Ocular pharmacology
Aqueous humor dynamics
Physiology of blinking