Richard William Gerhold Jr, DVM, MS, PhD
Upon graduation from veterinary school, I was employed as the staff veterinarian at the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study at the University of Georgia. I also received a MS and PhD from University of Georgia in Veterinary Pathology working on classical and molecular parasitology. Following my PhD, I completed a two year National Science Foundation-funded post-doctoral fellowship at the Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries Department at the University of Tennessee researching Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases. I am currently an assistant professor of parasitology at Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine at University of Tennessee. Duties include teaching in the first year parasitology course and fourth year rotations, diagnostic services, and research. My research interests include wildlife and public health associated parasite epidemiology, protozoa, and tick-borne diseases. In addition I belong to the Center for Wildlife Health at the University of Tennessee which is group of researchers from numerous departments and colleges at the University of Tennessee that perform research on various wildlife diseases.
Pathology-Parasitology; Community Practice-Parasitology; Veterinary Parasitology; Wildlife Disease Ecology
- I am a veterinary parasitologist and I perform classical and molecular diagnostics and research on parasites. My main area of focus is wildlife parasitology. Current projects include: meningeal worm and filarid epidemiology in moose, avian parasitology, Trichomonas gallinae and Histomonas meleagridis epidemiology and ecology, and ecology and transmission of Toxoplasma gondii.
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4542
- Doctorate, Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sciences, , University of Georgia, 2010
- MS, Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sciences, , University of Georgia, 2007
- Doctorate, Veterinary Medicine, General, Purdue Univ West Lafayette*, 2001
- Bachelors, Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Managemen, Purdue Univ West Lafayette*, 1997
Richard William Gerhold Jr, DVM, MS, PhD
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4542
- Doctorate, Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sciences, , University of Georgia, 2010
- MS, Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sciences, , University of Georgia, 2007
- Doctorate, Veterinary Medicine, General, Purdue Univ West Lafayette*, 2001
- Bachelors, Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Managemen, Purdue Univ West Lafayette*, 1997
Upon graduation from veterinary school, I was employed as the staff veterinarian at the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study at the University of Georgia. I also received a MS and PhD from University of Georgia in Veterinary Pathology working on classical and molecular parasitology. Following my PhD, I completed a two year National Science Foundation-funded post-doctoral fellowship at the Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries Department at the University of Tennessee researching Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases. I am currently an assistant professor of parasitology at Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine at University of Tennessee. Duties include teaching in the first year parasitology course and fourth year rotations, diagnostic services, and research. My research interests include wildlife and public health associated parasite epidemiology, protozoa, and tick-borne diseases. In addition I belong to the Center for Wildlife Health at the University of Tennessee which is group of researchers from numerous departments and colleges at the University of Tennessee that perform research on various wildlife diseases.
Pathology-Parasitology; Community Practice-Parasitology; Veterinary Parasitology; Wildlife Disease Ecology
- I am a veterinary parasitologist and I perform classical and molecular diagnostics and research on parasites. My main area of focus is wildlife parasitology. Current projects include: meningeal worm and filarid epidemiology in moose, avian parasitology, Trichomonas gallinae and Histomonas meleagridis epidemiology and ecology, and ecology and transmission of Toxoplasma gondii.