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Eleanor C. Hawkins, DVM, Dipl. Jennifer A. Larsen, DVM, MS, PHD,
VetBooks.ir sor, Department of Clinical Sciences Support Service, Veterinary Medicine
DACVN, Chief of Service, Nutrition
ACVIM (Internal Medicine), Profes-
Teaching Hospital, Professor of Clini-
and Director, Clinical Study Core,
Comparative Medicine Institute North cal Nutrition, Department of Molecu-
Carolina State University College of lar Biosciences, School of Veterinary
Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Hawkins has Medicine, UC Davis. Dr. Larsen holds
served as President and as Chair of the American College of bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Animal Science and a
Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM), and as President of DVM from UC Davis. She completed one year in local
the Specialty of Small Animal Internal Medicine (ACVIM). private practice before accomplishing a clinical nutrition
She has been a board member of the Comparative Respira- residency at UC Davis. In 2007, Dr. Larsen attained Diplo-
tory Society. She has been an invited lecturer in the United mate status from the American College of Veterinary Nutri-
States, Europe, South America, and Japan. Dr. Hawkins is the tion and completed a PhD in Nutritional Biology in 2008. In
author of many refereed publications and scientific proceed- her current role, Dr. Larsen provides clinical nutritional con-
ings. She has been a contributor or the respiratory editor for sulting through the Nutrition Support Service at the UC
numerous well-known veterinary texts. Dr. Hawkins was the Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. She also
2014 recipient of the ACVIM Distinguished Service Award. mentors residents and students, and she teaches in the vet-
Her areas of research include canine chronic bronchitis, pul- erinary curriculum as well as for the Graduate Group of
monary function testing, and bronchoalveolar lavage as a Nutritional Biology.
diagnostic tool.

J. Catharine R. Scott-Moncrieff, MA,
Michael R. Lappin, DVM, PhD, Dipl. VetMB, MS, DACVIM (SA), DECVIM
ACVIM (Internal Medicine), is the (CA), Professor, Department of Veteri-
Kenneth W. Smith Professor of Small nary Clinical Sciences, College of Vet-
Animal Clinical Veterinary Medicine at erinary Medicine, Purdue University.
the College of Veterinary Medicine and Dr. Scott-Moncrieff graduated from
Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State the University of Cambridge in 1985
University and Director of the Center and completed an internship in small animal medicine and
for Companion Animal Studies. After earning his DVM at surgery at the University of Saskatchewan and a residency in
Oklahoma State University in 1981, he completed a small internal medicine at Purdue University. In 1989, she joined
animal internal medicine residency and earned his doctorate the faculty of Purdue University, where she is currently Pro-
in parasitology at the University of Georgia. Dr. Lappin has fessor of small animal internal medicine and Head of the
studied feline infectious diseases and has authored more Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. Her clinical and
than 250 research papers and book chapters. Dr. Lappin is research interests include immune-mediated hematologic
past associate editor for the Journal of Veterinary Internal disorders and clinical endocrinology. She is the author of
Medicine and serves on the editorial board of Journal of numerous manuscripts and book chapters and has lectured
Feline Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Lappin has received the extensively nationally and internationally.
Norden Distinguished Teaching Award, the Winn Feline
Foundation Excellence in Feline Research Award, and the
ESFM International Award for Outstanding Contribution to
Feline Medicine.