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John August

John August

VMBS Dean Emeritus | VSCS Professor Emeritus Deans Office
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Research and Scholarly Interests

Feline internal medicine; distance education; educational technology

Biography 

John August is a native of Surrey, England. He received his pre-veterinary education at Eastbourne College in Sussex, England. In 1973, he graduated with honors from the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London and became a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Following an internship and residency in small animal internal medicine, he remained on the faculty at Auburn University as an Assistant Professor until 1982. While at Auburn, he was awarded the Master of Science degree in 1977 and became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Specialty of Internal Medicine) in 1979. He joined the faculty of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine as Associate Professor and Coordinator of Medical Services in 1982 and was appointed Professor of Companion Animal Medicine in 1986.

From 1986-1997, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery at Texas A&M University and served as Deputy Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. He received the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Administration in 1994. He has also served as Interim Head of the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology. In 2014, he was appointed Associate Dean of Faculties and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University. On Feb. 12, 2016, he was appointed Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost at Texas A&M University. In 2019, he assumed the role as Interim Dean for the School of Public Health.

His professional interests include feline internal medicine, distance education, and the effective use of educational technology in the classroom to promote learning. Dr. August shared responsibility for the feline internal medicine service in the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital for 15 years. In 2014, he was selected as the Evelyn Williams Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney. He was the editor-in-chief of Consultations in Feline Internal Medicine, volumes 1 through 6, published by Saunders Elsevier. Volume 6 was published in 2010.

On July 1, 2020, he was appointed interim dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) and on Sept. 9, 2020, began a two-year term as dean of the CVMBS. On March 9, 2022, Texas A&M University Interim Provost and Executive Vice President Dr. Timothy P. Scott announced an extension of his term. With the approval of Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp, he will serve as the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine through Aug. 31, 2025.

  • Medicine
  • Education

Teaching Programs

I teach 27 hours of lectures in core and elective classes in the third year.  I have 50-60% assignment in the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, and instruct and supervise third- and fourth-year professional students, interns, and residents on the feline internal medicine service.

Auburn University

Undergraduate

  • VM 440, 441, 442, 443, Small Animal Clinics - Instruction in Small Animal Internal Medicine and Dermatology
  • VM 429, Small Animal Physical Diagnosis (Course Leader)
  • VM 427, Small Animal Infectious Diseases (Course Participant)
  • VM 437, Veterinary Toxicology.  Responsible for small animal toxicology (Course Leader)

Graduate

  • VSA 664-665, Advanced Small Animal Medicine (Course Participant)

Virginia Tech

Course Leader

  • VM 8332  Abnormal Integumentary System (17 lectures)
  • VM 8410  Medicine Clerkship

Course Participant

  • VM 8341  Abnormal Urinary System (15 lectures, 1 lab)
  • VM 8342  Abnormal Endocrine System (6 lectures)
  • VM 8161  Reproductive System II (4 lectures)
  • VM 8172  Integumentary System (2 lectures, 1 lab)
  • VM 8372  Physical Diagnosis (2 lectures)
  • VM 8320  Abnormal Gastrointestinal System (1 lecture)

Texas A&M University

Course Coordinator

  • VMID 930  Diseases of the Integument

Course Participant

  • VMID 930   Diseases of the Integument (4 lectures)
  • VSAM 940  Fourth-Year Clinics (Dermatology)
  • VSAM 940  Fourth-Year Clinics (Dermatology)
  • VSAM 945  Fourth-Year Clinics (Dermatology Elective)
  • VMID 954   Third-Year Medicine (4 lectures with an educational web site)
  • VSAM 945  Fourth-Year Clinics (Feline internal medicine)

Professional

  • VMID/VSCS 954 - Medicine
  • VMID 930 - Advanced Small Animal Medicine
  • VSAM/VSCS 955 - Advanced Small Animal Medicine

Texas A&M University and Palo Alto College (San Antonio)

Distance Education via the Trans-Texas Video Network and the Worldwide Web

Undergraduate

  • VTHT 1413 - Animal Anatomy and Physiology
  • VTHT 2301 - Canine and Feline Management
  • VTHT 2323 - Clinical Pathology I

University of Viña del Mar, Viña del Mar, Chile

  • Presentation of interactive classes by videoconference in support of new diploma program in feline medicine for senior veterinary medical students and graduate veterinarians.  July 2007, September 2008.

 

Residents/Interns/Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Dr. Amie Koenig, residency advisor, 1998-2001
  • Dr. Elaine Salmon, intern advisor, 2003-2004
  • Dr. Corinne Fabrick, intern advisor, 2005-2006
  • Dr. Christa Heilman, intern advisor, 2005-2006
  • Dr. Christina Bradbury, intern advisor, 2006-2007
  • Dr. Corinne Fabrick, residency advisor, 2006-2009
  • Dr. Sarah Snyder, intern advisor, 2009-2010
  • Dr. Carly Duff, intern advisor, 2011-2012
  • Dr. Carly Duff, resident advisor, 2012-2014
  • Dr. Maria Jugan, intern advisor, 2013-2014

Publications in Refereed Journals:

  1. August JR, Powers RD, Bailey WS, Diamond DL:  Filaroides hirthi in a dog:  Fatal hyperinfection suggestive of autoinfection.  J Am Vet Med Assoc 176:332-334, 1980.
  2. Braund KG, Dillon AR, Mikeal RL, August JR:  Subclinical myopathy associated with hyperadrenocorticism in the dog.  Vet Pathol 17:134-138, 1980.
  3. Braund KG, Dillon AR, August JR, Ganjam VK:  Hypothyroid myopathy in two dogs.  Vet Pathol 18:589-598, 1981.
  4. August JR:  The reaction of canine skin to the intradermal injection of allergenic extracts.  J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 18:157-163, 1982.
  5. August JR:  The intradermal test as a diagnostic aid for canine atopic disease.  J Am Anim Hosp Assoc  18:164-171, 1982.
  6. August JR, Teer PA, Bartels JE:  Kartagener's syndrome in a dog.  J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 18:822-826, 1982.
  7. Spano JS, August JR, Henderson RA, Dumas MB, Groth AH:  Serum gamma glutamyl transpeptidase activity in healthy cats and cats with induced hepatic disease.  Am J Vet Res 44:2049-2053, 1983.
  8. August JR, Loar AS, Saunders GK, Rikihisa Y:  Membranous glomerulonephropathy and nephrotic syndrome in a cat.  Compend Contin Educ Pract Vet 7(4):363-368, 1985.
  9. August JR:  Dietary hypersensitivity in dogs:  Cutaneous manifestations, diagnosis and management.  Compend Contin Educ Pract Vet 7(6):469-480, 1985.
  10. August JR, Chickering WR:  Lameness in 4 dogs with pemphigus foliaceus.  Compend Contin Educ Pract Vet 7(10):894-902, 1985.
  11. Martin RW, Evans EW, August JR, Franklin JE:  Surgical treatment of thymoma in a cat.  J Am Anim Hosp Assoc  22:347-354, 1986.
  12. August JR:  Taking a dermatologic history.  Compend Contin Educ Pract Vet 8(8):510-518, 1986.
  13. August JR:  The domestic cat:  Man's friend and foe.  Med Herit 2:282-288, 1986.
  14. Martin RA, August JR, Barber DL, Luther F:  Left hepatic vein attenuation for treatment of patent ductus venosus in a dog.  J Am Vet Med Assoc 189:1465-1468, 1986.
  15. August JR, Chickering WR, Rikihisa Y:  Congenital ichthyosis in a dog:  Comparison with the human ichthyosiform dermatoses.  Compend Contin Educ Pract Vet 10(1):40-45, 1988. 
  16. August JR:  Cat scratch disease.  J Am Vet Med Assoc 193:312-315, 1988.
  17. Monroe WE, August JR, Chickering WR, Sriranganathan N: Atypical mycobacterial infections in cats.  Compend Contin Ed Pract Vet 10(9):1044-1047, 1988.
  18. August JR: Dog and cat bites.  J Am Vet Med Assoc 193:1394-1398, 1988.
  19. August JR: Dysgonic fermenter-2 infections.  J Am Vet Med Assoc 193:1506-1508, 1988.
  20. August JR: Husbandry practices for cats infected with feline leukemia virus or feline immunodefiency virus. J Am Vet Med Assoc 199:1474-1477, 1991.
  21. Howe LM, Boothe HW, August JR, Bice KL, Medicus KL: Using community-based service learning projects to improve surgical instruction.  J Vet Med Educ 25(2):12-15, 1999.
  22. Jugan M, August JR: Serum cobalamin concentrations and small intestinal ultrasound changes in 75 cats with clinical signs of gastrointestinal disease: A retrospective study. J Feline Med Surg (accepted for publication July 6, 2015).

Abstracts:

  1. Braund KG, Dillon AR, August JR: Myopathy associated with canine Cushing's disease.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med, 1979.
  2. Dillon AR, Braund KG, August JR, Ganjam VK: Neuromuscular changes in primary and secondary hypothyroidism in the dog.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med, 1980.
  3. Braund KG, Dillon AR, Pidgeon GL, August JR: Neuromuscular changes associated with spontaneous diabetes mellitus in the dog.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med, 1981.
  4. August JR: Otitis externa in the dog.  Proc Am Anim Hosp Assoc (53rd Annual Meeting), 1986.
  5. August JR: Food allergy in dogs and cats.  Proc Am Anim Hosp Assoc (53rd Annual Meeting), 1986.
  6. August JR: Infectious disease control in catteries.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med (4th Annual Forum), 1986.
  7. August JR: Dietary hypersensitivity in the dog.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med (4th Annual Forum), 1986.
  8. August JR: Dietary hypersensitivity in the dog and cat:  Cutaneous manifestations, diagnosis and management.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med (4th Annual Forum), 1986.
  9. August JR: Intradermal allergy testing for canine atopic disease.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med (4th Annual Forum), 1986.
  10. August JR: Dysgonic fermenter-2 bacteremia.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med (7th Annual Forum), 1989.
  11. August JR: Immunopathogenesis. New Perspectives on Prevention of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (SmithKline Beecham Animal Health), Orlando, January 11, 1991.
  12. August JR: Zoonotic complications of bite and scratch wounds.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med (10th Annual Forum), 1992.
  13. August JR: The pathophysiology of chronic progressive otitis externa.  Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med (10th Annual Forum), 1992.
  14. August JR: The associate professorship: Motivating faculty members at a poorly defined rank.  National Issues in Higher Education (Kansas State University), 41:54-60, 1993.
  15. August JR, Slater MR: The use of epidemiologic principles in the control of infectious diseases in cat populations. Proc Amer Coll Vet Intern Med (12th Annual Forum), 1994.
  16. August JR: Residency programs.  In: Proceedings of the 13th Veterinary Medical Education Symposium.  J Vet Med Educ 21(2):71-72, 1994.
  17. August JR: Mentoring programs for new faculty members. In: Proceedings of the 13th Veterinary Medical Education Symposium.  J Vet Med Educ 21(2):82-83, 1994.
  18. August JR: Pre-tenure-track appointments and mentor committees: Synergistic methods to enhance early faculty development.  National Issues in Higher Education (Kansas State University) 43:35-42, 1994.
  19. August JR: Preparing the next generation of faculty members: Essential experiences for long-term career success.  National Issues in Higher Education (Kansas State University) 48:32-38, 1998.
  20. August JR: Feline gingivostomatitis: Etiopathogenesis and management. Proceedings of the 26th ACVIM Forum, San Antonio, TX: 19-21, 2008.
  21. August JR: Feline nasopharyngeal disease. Proceedings of the 26th ACVIM Forum, San Antonio, TX: 22-24, 2008.
  22. August JR: Abdominal lymphadenopathy in cats: A diagnostic challenge. Proceedings of the 26th ACVIM Forum, San Antonio, TX: 25-27, 2008.
  23. August JR: Interpreting unexpected feline leukemia virus test results. Proceedings of the 26th ACVIM Forum, San Antonio, TX: 28-30, 2008.
  24. August JR: Polling technology facilitates decision-making skills in the flipped classroom. Proceedings of the Lilly Conference on Teaching and Learning, Traverse City, MI, September 20, 2012.
  25. August JR: Facilitating effective small group discussions: Implementing best practices to allow successful learning.  Proceedings of the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning, Traverse City, MI, October 17, 2013.

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