Associate Professor, Small Animal Surgery
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi
Dr. Swanson is an associate professor of small animal surgery at the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Her clinical focus is soft tissue surgery with special interests in wound healing, minimally invasive surgery, endourology, wound infection, and chronic biofilm infections. She graduated from the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine with honors in 2001. She completed a rotating internship at the Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover) in Germany (2002). She practiced for five years as an associate veterinarian at a small animal hospital in Arlington Heights, IL, after which she returned to a specialty practice, completing a surgery internship at Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists in Houston (2008) and a surgery and critical care internship and a research fellowship at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine (2009, 2010). She attended the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, where she completed her small animal surgery residency and earned a master of science degree in Veterinary Science (2013). She has been on faculty at Mississippi State University since 2013. She is actively involved with the Society of Veterinary Soft Tissue Surgery and the Veterinary Endoscopy Society. Her research focuses on chronic biofilm infections, particularly the effects of biofilms on chronic wound development, biofilms in chronic urinary tract infections, treatment of chronic biofilm infection and multiple-drug-resistant infections, understanding the mechanisms of bacterial adhesion to tissues, and on developing a model of biofilm-infected diabetic pressure ulcers.
Friday, October 14, 2022
10:00am – 12:00pm
Saturday, October 15, 2022
8:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday, October 15, 2022
1:30pm – 2:00pm
Saturday, October 15, 2022
4:30pm – 5:30pm
Saturday, October 15, 2022
5:30pm – 6:00pm