Assistant Professor
Annika Linde, DVM, PhD, MPH is a clinician-scientist with specialization in cardiology, physiology, nutrition, and public health. She has over twenty years of academic work experience from different universities in the US and Europe. Dr. Linde completed her veterinary medical degree (DVM 1999)
with a thesis in cardiology and a small animal medicine internship at the University of Copenhagen as well as coursework in applied canine behavior from the Institute of Ethology in Denmark. Dr. Linde completed a cardiology residency and lectureship at the University of Pennsylvania (2003), followed
by a DeBakey scholarship in cardiovascular research at Texas A&M University. Dr. Linde earned a PhD in Physiology with a dissertation in cardiac innate immunity from Kansas State University (2008), where she also completed graduate studies in Human Nutrition. She moreover completed
certificates in Plant-Based Nutrition and Food & Sustainability from Cornell University, as well as an interdisciplinary MPH from UC Berkeley in 2018. Her publication record spans clinical research with studies on congenital cardiac defects, cardiac imaging and cardiac biomarker analysis, as well as translational research on bio-therapeutics development inspired by natural host defense peptides in light of evolutionary medicine. Ongoing clinical research involves studies on the canine microbiome plant-based nutrition, and more. Dr. Linde has experience teaching graduate and professional students in the areas of cardiology, physiology, species-spanning medicine, bioethics, and also serves as a facilitator for inter-professional education and veterinary problem-based learning. She maintains affiliation with different US medical schools as a guest speaker in bioethics, species-spanning medicine and One Health. Dr. Linde first joined the Western University
College of Veterinary Medicine in 2017.
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Monday, February 20, 2023
9:00 AM – 9:50 AM
