Alumni

Carolyn Hodo, DVM, PhD, DACVP

Postdoctoral Research
Associate
chodo@cvm.tamu.edu
Visit Carolyn’s website here.
Currently Assistant Professor at University of Texas MD Anderson Keeling Center

Jillian Wormington, MS, PhD

Postdoctoral Research
Associate
jwormington@cvm.tamu.edu
Visit Jillian’s website here.
Currently Assistant Professor at Wayne State College

Alyssa Meyers, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate
ameyers@cvm.tamu.edu

Currently Data Manager, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Italo Zecca, MPH, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate
ibzecca@cvm.tamu.edu

Currently ORISE Fellow at the CDC- One Health Group

Alex Pauvolid, DVM, MSc, PhD

Assistant Research Scientist
pauvolid@cvm.tamu.edu

Currently Professor of Veterinary Virology at Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil

Jaime Rodriguez, MS

MS in Wildlife & Fisheries Science, 2014
Co-advised by Dr. Jessica Light
Currently MD student
at UT-Southwestern

Texas A&M University Diversity Fellow

Lowell Pigott, MS

Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public
Health, 2014
Currently DVM Student
at Western University of Health Sciences

Katlyn Rosenbaum, MS

Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health, 2015
Currently DVM student
at Texas A&M University

Chelsea Young, MS

Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health – Epidemiology, 2016
Currently DVM student
at Texas A&M University

Miranda Bertram, DVM, PhD

PhD in Biomedical Science–
Epidemiology, 2016
Currently postdoctoral researcher
at the USDA Plum Island Disease
Research Center

CVM Merit Fellow
Dissertation: Whooping crane
conservation medicine

Rachel Curtis-Robles, PhD

PhD in Biomedical Science–
Epidemiology, 2016
Currently postdoctoral researcher
in the CVM Hamer Lab

NSF Graduate Research Fellow
CVM Merit Fellow
Dissertation: Eco-epidemiology
of Chagas disease in Texas

Carolyn Hodo, DVM, DACVP, PhD

PhD in Veterinary Pathobiology, 2017; Co-advised by Dr. Jane Welsh

NIH T32 Research Fellow, 2014-17
Dissertation: Mammalian reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi

Bailee Ethridge, MS

Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health – Epidemiology, 2018

Justin Bejcek, MS

MS in Veterinary Public Health –
Epidemiology, 2018

Thesis: Triatomine identification
and outreach

Michelle Dembrosky, MS

Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health – Epidemiology, 2019

Cyrena Peterson, MS

Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health – Epidemiology, 2019

Spencer DeBrock

MS Veterinary Public Health – Epidemiology (thesis option)
CVM Merit Fellow 2018–2020

Trevor Tenney

VMSRTP, 2013
Research project: Shelter dogs & vector-borne pathogens

Katlin Johnson

VMSRTP, 2013
Research project: Molecular diagnostics of Trypanosoma cruzi infections

Juliette Comeaux

DVM Student Researcher, 2014–2015
Research project: Trypanosoma cruzi in feral swine

Alan Mai

MPH Student Researcher, 2014–2015
Practicum topic: Blood meal analysis of kissing bugs

Nicole Bertolini

VMSRTP, 2015
Research project: Rattus rattus in the ecology of Chagas disease

Chloe Goodwin

VMSRTP, 2015
Research project: Bat reservoirs of diverse trypanosomes

Jessica Noll

Visiting Brazilian DVM Student, 2015
Brazil Scientific Mobility Program

Usman Ghumman, MD

MPH Student Researcher, Spring 2016
Practicum topic: Analysis of medical records of working dogs

Rosa Banuelos

VMSRTP, 2016
Research project: Cardiac pathology in wild coyotes

Elise Birkner

VMSRTP, 2016
Research project: Wildlife reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi at a nonhuman primate facility

Bhagath Chirra, MPH

PhD Student Researcher
(From Texas A&M Health Science Center)
Practicum project: Next generation sequence analysis of triatomine bloodmeals

Valery Roman-Cruz, MPH

Research Assistant
VRoman-Cruz@cvm.tamu.edu

Megan Ellis

VMSRTP, 2017 (From CSU)
Research project: Cardiac ECG abnormalities in canine Chagas disease

Sarah Slack

VMSRTP, 2017
Research project: Feral cats and urban opossums in the ecology of Trypanosoma cruzi

Julia Purnell

VMSRTP, 2017
Research project: Genetic strain variation of Trypanosoma cruzi

Erin Edwards, DVM, MS, DACVP

Pathology Resident Research, 2016–2017

Andres Castro

VMSRTP, 2018

Becky Dowd

VMSRTP, Summer 2019

Skye Sneed

VMSRTP, 2019

Ty Tortella

VMSRTP, 2021 (Schubot Center for Avian Health)