Professional Training and Experience               

• Residency, Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Washington, Department of Comparative Medicine
• PhD, University of Washington, Molecular & Cellular Biology
• DVM, The Ohio State University, College of Veterinary Medicine
• BS,  The Ohio State University, Animal Sciences

Research Interests

• The effects of dietary nutrients, specifically vitamin D, on the prevention, development and progression of inflammatory bowel disease and inflammation-associated colon cancer
• The effects of the gut microbiome on gastrointestinal diseases including inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer, and cystic fibrosis
• Animal model development and gnotobiotic animal models

Publications