Faculty and Staff
Dr. Rocio Crespo - Faculty, Puyallup Avian Health & Food Safety Laboratory
Dr. Crespo joined the faculty at Washington State University from UC Davis where she was part of the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System. She received her veterinary training at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, with honors in animal production and economy, and spent two years in large animal practice. Then she moved to Canada, where she specialized in avian and poultry and attained a MS and DVSc at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Dr. Crespo's research interest is in:
1) Avian nutrition, diseases, and pathology, with emphasis pathophysiology of the avian musculoskeletal system.
Dr. Ram Kasimanickam - Faculty, Bovine Reproduction Specialist
Dr. Ram will be providing knowledge in bovine reproduction through teaching, research, and extension work in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. His research focuses on:
1) Reproduction - improving bull and cow fertility with a population based approach, embryonic and placental development,
2) Global Animal Health - animal model to study antioxidants and angiogenesis in intrauterine growth
retardation, premature delivery.
Dr. Dale Moore - Director, Veterinary Medicine Extension
Dr. Moore's extension program is devoted to agricultural animal health and well-being. Her two focus areas include:
1) Calf management for health and performance,
2) Disease prevention on farms and ranches.
She serves as one of the Washington state's Beef Quality Assurance coordinators, education specialist to the USDA “Calf Science” project, and the developer of the DairyBeef website.
Current research activities include alternatives to antibiotic use in calf-rearing and validating bio security recommendations on dairy farms.
Dr. Bill Sischo - Faculty, School for Global Animal Health
A professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Dr. Sischo's research focuses on:
1) Quality management for dairy farms (including risk assessment),
2) Local and regional ecology of pathogens of public health significance with a primary focus on Salmonella and Escherichia coli,
3) Issues of rural and urban geographic interface .
A nationally recognized expert in food safety, Dr. Sischo will direct the School for Global Animal Health’s new doctoral program in animal health policy and metrics. The first program of its kind in the nation, it aims to educate the next generation of leaders in animal health to develop and implement effective science-based policy.
Dr. John Wenz - Faculty, Field Disease Investigation Unit
Dr. Wenz is with the Field Disease Investigation Unit and the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. He is responsible for:
1) Responding to requests for herd-level disease investigations in the state for ag animals,
2) Teaching problem-solving and farm records interpretation to the veterinary students.
Dr. Wenz is also involved in extension and outreach through his on-farm projects and the BVD Control & Eradication Project currently in progress in the state of Washington.
Katy Tellessen, BS Extension Coordinator, Field Research
Katy has a degree in Animal Science and is currently responsible for:
1) Veterinary Medicine Extension program management,
2) Bovine & Calf Science program management,
3) Field research with the Field Disease Investigation Unit.
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