Presenting Author
Louisiana State University
Dr. Gomes, originally from Brazil, is a clinical instructor of Theriogenology and PhD candidate at Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) in 2014, after completing an exchange program at Kansas State University. Dr. Gomes worked as a veterinary technician and volunteer researcher at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital (Kentucky) and completed an internship in Large Animal Field Services and Theriogenology at the University of Georgia. She worked as an equine private practitioner and CEO of a veterinary clinical pathology laboratory in Brazil for two years before coming to LSU to pursue advanced training. Dr. Gomes is a Diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists. Her clinical interests are comparative placentation and pregnancy adverse outcomes. Her research focuses on maternal-fetal interactions during pregnancy, using the horse and mouse as model species. Gomes's dissertation is entitled “The role of kisspeptins in Trophoblast Cell Dynamics”, having Dr. Jenny Sones as her faculty research mentor. Dr. Gomes expects to complete her doctoral studies in 2022.