Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Research Funding
Professional Associations
Professional Interests

Professor Gail Anderson

Telephone	+61 8 8313 1923
Position	Professor of Veterinary Surgery
Email	gail.anderson@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 7736
Building	Companion Animal Health Centre
Campus	Roseworthy
Org Unit	Animal & Veterinary Science, School

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Biography/ Background

Gail Anderson graduated from University of Melbourne School of Veterinary Science and then went on to an internship and residency in Surgery at the Ontario Veterinary College in Ontario, Canada. She completed her MSc in Comparative Orthopaedics also at OVC and then went on to her PhD at the University of Toronto in Osteoclast Cell Biology. She is a specialist veterinary surgeon via Diplomate status of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and a Member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in Surgery.

When time permits she is a keen walker, gardener, cyclist, and dog afficiando and she also loves to make stain glass windows.

Qualifications

BVSc hons - Melbourne

MSc with distinction - University of Guelph

PhD - University of Toronto

MACVSc (Small Animal Surgery)

Diplomate American College Veterinary Scientists

Teaching Interests

Veterinary medical education

Teaching technical surgical skills

Teaching clinical decision making skills

Bone Biology

Research Interests

Bone biomaterials interactions especially enhancement of osseous integration

Bone cell mechanics and mechanotransduction

Clinical outcomes in veterinary surgery

Pain assessment and management in animals

Research Funding

Biomaterials and bone - NHMRC, ARC

Previously CIHR, MRC of Canada, Arthritis Society fo Canada.

Professional Associations

Orthopaedic Research Society

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

American College Veterinary Surgeons

Australian College Veterinary Scientists

Australian Veterinary Association

Professional Interests

Small animal surgery including surgical oncology and general surgery.

Veterinary Medical education.

Entry last updated: Saturday, 1 Sep 2012

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