Elizabeth G. Welles

phone: 334-844-4539
email: welleeg@vetmed.auburn.edu

Dr. Elizabeth G. Welles, associate professor, joined the Pathobiology faculty in 1990 as a clinical pathologist. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, clinical pathology specialty, in 1990 also. After receiving her DVM degree in 1981 from Auburn University, she interned at the Animal Medical Center in New York, NY, and spent several years as a small animal practitioner in Huntington, NY. She earned a PhD at the University of Georgia in 1989 under the guidance of Dr. Keith W. Prasse. She held a postdoctoral fellowship position (1989-1990) in the Department of Comparative Medicine at Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. Welles is active in teaching of clinical pathology and in providing laboratory cytological services and consultation to the animal clinics of the College of Veterinary Medicine and to area practitioners.
 

Research Interests

My research interests are in coagulation and fibrinolysis, laboratory means of predicting thrombus formation, and application of clinical pathologic and histopathologic tests towards the diagnosis of animal diseases.  Collaborative projects have pursued investigations into laboratory and hemostatic abnormalities in endotoxic cows treated with isotonic or hypertonic saline, cerebrospinal fluid analysis in endotoxic cows treated with hypertonic saline, assessment of hemtalogic and semen quality in bulls infected with Eperythrozoon, assessment of bone marrow and peripheral blood cell changes in sublethally erradiated mice chronically administered ethanol, and assessment of histologic techniques in the diagnosis of equine polysaccharide storage myopathy.
 

Selected Publications

Welles EG, Williams MA, Tyler JW, Lin H-C.  Hemostasis in cows with endotoxin-induced mastitis treated with small volumes of intravenous isotonic or hypertonic saline solution.  Am J Vet Res 1993;54:1230-1234.

Welles EG, Bourne C, Tyler JW, Boudreaux MK.  Detection of activated platelets in cat platelet-rich plasma by use of fluorescein-labeled antibodies and flow cytometry.  Vet Pathol 1994;31:553-560.

Welles EG, Tyler JW, Wolfe DF.  Hematologic and semen quality changes in bulls with experimental Eperythrozoon infection.  Theriogenology 1995;43:557-567.

Livant EJ, Welles EG, Ewald SJ.  Chronic ethanol exposure alters leukocytes subsets in repopulating spleens but does not alter negative selection in thymuses of sublethally irradiated mice.  Alcoholism:  Clinical and Experimental Research 1997;21:1520-1529.

Steiss J, Brewer W, Welles E.  Hematologic and serum biochemical values in non-racing greyhounds.  Compendium of Cont Ed. 1999.

Williams MA, Welles EG, Fontaine J.  Recurrent extertional rabdomyolysis in horses:  New information on an old disease.  submitted Equine Pract 1999.