December 2023

Meet the Veterinary Teaching Hospital team: JV Ellorin

As a client, you aren’t likely to run into JV Ellorin at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, but he plays a vital role as a medical technologist with our Clinical Pathology team in ensuring our patients receive the best care possible.

JV and Victoria on a beach.

Q&A with graduate student Nadia McLean

Graduate student Nadia McLean hopes her research at WSU into the brain mechanisms that drive addiction will ultimately lead to new methods of combatting alcohol use disorder. Nadia is pursuing a doctorate in neuroscience in the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience.

Nadia McLean sits at a microscope.

Ambassador spotlight: Jessica Thompson

Jessica is interested in small animal emergency medicine, mobile medicine, cardiology, and neurology, and she decided to attend WSU because of the non-tracking curriculum, cost, and the importance the program places on balancing school, work, and personal life.

Jessica outside the Teaching Hospital.

Meet the researchers: Dr. Allison Coffin

For more than a decade Dr. Allison Coffin has been leading research at WSU’s Vancouver campus with the goal of gaining a better understanding of the cellular mechanisms of hearing loss and developing drugs to prevent hearing damage.

Dr. Coffin in her lab in October of 2022.

New heart procedure at WSU offers hope for French bulldogs, other dogs

The Fromherz family now has hope their dog Spike will live a longer and healthier life after he received a rare heart procedure at WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

Anesthesia technician Kim Somerlott holds Spike, a French Bulldog.

Meet the Class of 2024: Britt Dixon

All through high school, despite his dad’s advice, it was never Britt Dixon’s initial plan to be a veterinarian. As it would turn out, his dad was right. Last month Britt accepted an equine surgery and sports medicine internship at Texas Equine Hospital in Bryan, Texas.