Department: Comparative Medicine

Contacts

Office: Edwards Building, Room R321
Mail Code: 94305-5342
Phone: (650) 498-5080
Web Site: http://med.stanford.edu/compmed

The Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford is an academic, basic science department, the department is comprised of  fourteen faculty,  eleven of whom are veterinarians.  All faculty members are immersed in laboratory animal science and translational research.  They teach at the undergraduate, graduate, professional, and postgraduate levels. The department's clinical and basic science faculty welcome,  review, and accept student candidates for participation in research projects.  The Department of Comparative Medicine was established at Stanford in 1990. 

The department's faculty is also engaged in collaborative and comparative research, with animal model expertise and programs in veterinary pathology, pain and anesthesia, rodent reproductive biology, infectious disease, cancer, bioengineering, animal welfare, and neuroscience. In addition, the veterinary faculty in the Department of Comparative Medicine has oversight responsibility for the campus-wide animal research program and provides clinical service in the Veterinary Service Center (VSC). The mission of the department is to advance human and animal health through outstanding research, veterinary care and training. 

To learn more about the Veterinary Service Center core and services provided, see the Veterinary Service Center (VSC) web site.

To learn more about Animal Research at Stanford, see the Animal Research at Stanford web site.

Faculty

Emeriti:  (Professors) Donna M. Bouley, Linda C. Cork

Chair: Sherril Green

Director of Graduate Studies: Sherril Green

Co-Director of Graduate Studies: Corinna Darian-Smith

Professors: David Bentzel (Clinical), Paul S. Buckmaster, Joseph Garner, Stephen Felt, Sherril Green, Shaul Hestrin

Associate Professors: Megan Albertelli, Corinna Darian-Smith, Claude Nagamine

Assistant Professors:  Kerriann Casey (Clinical),  Monika Huss (Clinical),  Sam Baker (Clinical), Cholawat Pacharinsak, Jose Vilches-Moure

By Courtesy : Hannes Vogel (Professor), Karen Parker (Associate Professor)