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 Volume 3, Issue 2  (Fall 2007)

MEET THE STAFF

Commissioner - Ken Givens   Director of Regulatory Services - Jimmy Hopper   

State Veterinarian, Director KADDL - Ron Wilson

Animal Health

  • Dr. Philip Gordon, Assstant State Veterinarian

  • Jill Johnson, Staff Veterinarian

  • Charlie Hatcher, Staff Veterinarian

  • Robert Linnabary, Epidemiologist

  • Tina Rogers, ASA III

  • Kelly Lang, Administrative Secretary

  • Arlene Stowe, Secretary

  • Jennifer Bowers, Secretary

AHT's

  • Dan Bond

  • Joe Burns

  • Justin Henson

  • Don Lampley

  • Tommy Mitchell

  • Kent Nease

  • Russell Wattenbarger

Laboratory Staff

  • Carol Worthington,  Microbiologist

  • Kaye Tipton, Supervisor Serology/QA Safety Mgr.

  • Ed McKinley, Asst. Dir. KADDL/Pathologist

  • Elaine Dobson, Microbiologist

  • Gene Shade, Microbiologist

  • Tina Fisher, Pathologist

  • Bruce McLaughlin, Pathologist

  • Sheila Smith, Microbiologist

  • Perry Turner, Supervisor Histopathology

  • Darla Burton, Microbiologist

  • Tiffany Carrasquillo, Microbiologist

  • Tom Chang, Supervisor Immunology/Virology

  • Joyce Doyle, Microbiologist

  • Alice Smith, Supervisor Microbiology

  • Linda Grizzard, Microbiologist

  • Bonita Phillippie, Microbiologist

  • Nidhal Al Sultan, Lab Technician

  • Brian Parker, Lab Technician

  • Judy Lamb, Lab Technician

  • Joy Staples, Administrative Secretary

Dr. Bruce McLaughlin joins pathology staff

The Kord Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory is pleased to announce that Dr. Bruce McLaughlin has joined our veterinary pathology staff.  Dr. McLaughlin is a veteran pathologist and brings a wealth of knowledge to better serve our laboratory clientele.  Most recently, he was employed as an associate editor with the American Veterinary Medical Association.  While at AVMA, his responsibilities included the processing and scientific editing of manuscripts submitted for publication in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Journal of Veterinary Research.  During his tenure at the AVMA, Bruce also served as a part-time consultant to Idexx Veterinary Services, evaluating cytological submissions to their Chicago-area laboratory.  Prior to joining AVMA, he spent many years at the Breathitt Veterinary Center in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and was the head of pathology services at the laboratory.  He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, in 1978.  Following a year in equine private practice, he returned to complete his Master of Veterinary Science degree in anatomic pathology in 1981, also at the Western College of Veterinary medicine.  Through the years Bruce has been active in various community services including the Boy Scouts of America and coaching youth sports, most notably high school soccer.  Please feel free to contact Bruce with any questions you may have.  We are most fortunate to add Bruce's expertise to the services the laboratory provides.

We are pleased to announce the staffing of a position in the Immunology section of our Laboratory by Ms. Tiffany Carrasquillo.

Tiffany graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a major in Biology and has worked at the Marshfield Laboratories in veterinary diagnostics.

Welcome to our new employees!

***Ms. Linda Grizzard,   B.S., celebrated her 34th anniversary with the State of Tennessee in June***

      Dr. Ron Wilson, Tennessee State Veterinarian; Director C.E. Kord Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory