Sept. 9, 2010

Visits set for Vet Med dean candidates

by Paula Van Brocklin

Four candidates for the College of Veterinary Medicine dean post will visit campus by Oct. 1.

Candidates are Robert Holland, professor and chair, department of large animal clinical sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Lisa Nolan, professor and associate dean of research and graduate studies, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State; Stuart Reid, dean, faculty of veterinary medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; and Jean Sander, professor and associate dean for academic and student affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus.

Each candidate will be on campus for two days between Sept. 20 and Oct. 1, and will participate in an open forum. All forums will be held in 1226 College of Veterinary Medicine and last one hour.

Forum dates are:

  • Reid, Sept. 20, 3:15 p.m.
  • Nolan, Sept. 23, 3:15 p.m.
  • Sander, Sept. 27, 3:15 p.m.
  • Holland, Sept. 30, 2:30 p.m.

Candidates' complete vitas and interview schedules will be available on the executive vice president and provost's website by Sept. 15. Following is a brief look at each candidate.

Robert Holland

Holland has been professor and department chair of large animal clinical sciences and director of the large animal veterinary teaching hospital at Tennessee since 2005. Holland was at Iowa State from 2000 to 2004, serving as department chair of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine and as interim chair of the department of veterinary clinical sciences.

Holland's research focuses on infectious diseases of dairy cattle and environmentally important issues associated with the dairy industry.

Holland received a B.S. (1978) from Virginia State University, Petersburg; a D.V.M. (1982) from Tuskegee University, Alabama; and an M.S. in large animal clinical sciences (1986) from Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Lisa Nolan

Nolan has been associate dean of research and graduate studies in the College of Veterinary Medicine since 2009. She also currently serves as adjunct professor in the department of veterinary and microbiological sciences at North Dakota State University, Fargo, a position she has held since 2003. She joined the ISU faculty in 2003 as chair of the department of veterinary microbiology and preventive medicine and also served as associate dean of academic and student affairs (2007-09).

Nolan's research focuses on bacterial diseases of production animals, including their effects on animal health, human health and food safety.

Nolan received a D.V.M. (1988), and an M.S. (1989) and Ph.D. in medical microbiology (1992), all from the University of Georgia, Athens.

Stuart Reid

Since 2005, Reid has been dean of the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He also holds the first appointed joint chair between the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, and the second professorship in veterinary epidemiology in the United Kingdom. Previously, he served as associate dean (research) of the veterinary medicine faculty at Glasgow from 2004 to 2005.

Reid's research expertise is in quantitative epidemiology, applied to both human and animal health.

Reid received a bachelor's of veterinary medicine and surgery (1987), a Ph.D. (1992) and a D.V.M. (2004), all from the University of Glasgow.

Jean Sander

Sander currently is a professor and associate dean for academic and student affairs in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State University, a position she has held since 2005. Previously, she was associate dean for student affairs and professor of preventive medicine from 2003 to 2005.

Sander's research focuses on commercial poultry preventive medicine and pathology.

She received a B.S. (1974) from Elmhurst College, Illinois; a D.V.M (1987) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and an M.A.M. (1989) from the University of Georgia, Athens.