Kerwin Appointed Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department Head
Dr. Sharon Kerwin, a professor and the Tom & Joan Read Chair in veterinary surgery, has been named the head of the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences (VSCS) at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS).
Kerwin has served as the interim VSCS department head since July 2024 while continuing to provide support to her colleagues as a clinician in the Texas A&M Small Animal Teaching Hospital’s Orthopedics and Neurology services.
“Since her appointment as interim department head, Dr. Kerwin has represented the department with distinction in her interim role and through her service on our college’s executive committee,” said Dr. John August, the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine. “I look forward to continuing working with Dr. Kerwin and her department in her continued pursuit of academic excellence in all of their programs.”
Kerwin oversees a department of nearly 300 employees, including 63 faculty members, staff, interns, and residents, who all play important roles in the research, teaching, service, and patient care programs overseen by the department.
As department head, Kerwin’s major initiatives are to fill open faculty positions and increase faculty retention in the VSCS, as well as continuing to build on current strengths in clinical trials, advancing patient care, and educating veterinary students, graduate students, interns, and residents.
“I’m honored and excited to step into this role as we prepare to move into the Linda & Dennis Clark Small Animal Teaching Hospital, a beautiful new facility that will allow us to build on the strengths of our program and serve our mission to advance veterinary medicine through collaborative research and top-notch patient care,” Kerwin said.
In addition to having previously served as an associate department head for VSCS, Kerwin is a highly recognized educator and researcher, having been awarded the Texas Veterinary Medical Association Faculty Research Achievement Award in 2007 and the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award on both the college and university levels in 2009.
Kerwin has dual board certification in veterinary surgery and neurology, allowing for an in-depth perspective into the crossover between orthopedic and neurological diseases. Her research interests encompass lameness, gait analysis, fracture healing, osteoarthritis, and spinal cord injury, with a special interest on the orthopedic and neurologic disorders of cats.
She earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Texas A&M in 1988 and a master’s degree in veterinary physiology in 1993 from Louisiana State University (LSU). She completed an internship and small animal surgery residency at LSU and served as a faculty member there for several years before returning to the VMBS in 2001 to begin her role as a VSCS associate professor.
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Contact Information: Jennifer Gauntt, Director of VMBS Communications, Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, jgauntt@cvm.tamu.edu, 979-862-4216
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