Welcome Dr. Teresa Buchheit to VAD!

December 7, 2018

Dr. Teresa Buchheit will join the Department of Veterinary Administration (VAD) as a continuing lecturer starting Wednesday, January 2, 2019.  She will be working with the Applications and Integrations courses, the Veterinary Skills and Competencies courses, and the other clinical skills courses.  Since February 2015, Dr. Buchheit has been a member of the Purdue Veterinary Medicine Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences’ faculty as clinical assistant professor of equine ambulatory practice.

Dr. Buchheit received her DVM degree from Purdue in May 2005 before completing an internship in equine medicine and surgery at Mississippi State University and a residency in large animal internal medicine at the University of Tennessee.  Dr. Buchheit received board certification by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (large animal specialty) in 2010.  She then completed a master’s in comparative biomedical sciences at North Carolina State University in 2014 with a research focus on equine inflammation and sepsis.

Please stop by Dr. Buchheit’s office in LYNN G164B in the new year to welcome her to this new role.

Writer(s): Kathy Salisbury | pvmnews@purdue.edu

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