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• PhD, Louisiana State University
• DVM, University of Illinois
• MS, University of Illinois
• BS, University of Illinois

• Conservation Medicine
• Veterinary Anesthesia and Fluid Therapy
• Fish Medicine and Surgery
• What your Diagnosis? Zoo Medicine Cases
• Nutrition
• Zoological Medicine Seminar
• Advanced Topics in Zoo Medicine
• Colloquium
• Small Animal Intern Emergency Care of Exotic Pets Training
• Wildlife Medicine/Wildlife Medical Clinic Rounds Seminars
• Companion Animal Biology

My clinical interests are broad and include invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, avian, and non-domestic mammal medicine and surgery, as well as conservation medicine and clinical issues in non-domestic species.

UIUC Teacher Ranking of Excellent, Spring 2009

• Blackburn JK, Mitchell MA, Blackburn MC, Curtis A, Thompson BA. Evidence of antibiotic resistance in free-swimming, top-level marine predatory fishes. J Zoo Wildl Med. 2010 Mar;41(1):7-16.
• Acierno MJ, Seaton D, Mitchell MA, da Cunha A. Agreement between directly measured blood pressure and pressures obtained with three veterinary-specific oscillometric units in cats. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2010 Aug 15;237(4):402-6.
• Blackburn JK, Curtis A, Hadfield TL, O'Shea B, Mitchell MA, Hugh-Jones ME. Confirmation of Bacillus anthracis from flesh-eating flies collected during a West Texas anthrax season. J Wildl Dis. 2010 Jul;46(3):918-22.
• Bromley B, Shipp TD, Mitchell MA, Benacerraf BR. Tricks for obtaining a nuchal translucency measurement on the fetus in a difficult position. J Ultrasound Med. 2010 Aug;29(8):1261-4. No abstract available.
• Maciejewski R, Hafen R, Rudolph S, Larew SG, Mitchell MA, Cleveland WS, Ebert DS. Forecasting Hotspots - A Predictive Analytics Approach. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2010 May 21. [Epub ahead of print].
• Guzman DS, Diaz-Figueroa O, Tully T Jr, Ciembor P, Morgan T, Walden M, Poston RP, Flammer K, Mitchell MA, Ritchie B. Evaluating 21-day doxycycline and azithromycin treatments for experimental Chlamydophila psittaci infection in cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus). J Avian Med Surg. 2010 Mar;24(1):35-45.
• Schmidt NB, Keough ME, Mitchell MA, Reynolds EK, Macpherson L, Zvolensky MJ, Lejuez CW. Anxiety sensitivity: prospective prediction of anxiety among early adolescents. J Anxiety Disord. 2010 Jun;24(5):503-8. Epub 2010 Mar 27.
• Mitchell MA, Johnson JE, Pascarelli K, Beeharry N, Chiourea M, Gagos S, Lev D, von Mehren M, Kipling D, Broccoli D. Doxorubicin resistance in a novel in vitro model of human pleomorphic liposarcoma associated with alternative lengthening of telomeres. Mol Cancer Ther. 2010 Mar;9(3):682-92. Epub 2010 Mar 2.
• Vitousek MN, Mitchell MA, Romero LM, Awerman J, Wikelski M. To breed or not to breed: physiological correlates of reproductive status in a facultatively biennial iguanid. Horm Behav. 2010 Feb;57(2):140-6. Epub 2009 Oct 7.
• Acierno MJ, Mitchell MA, Freeman DM, Schuster PJ, Guzman DS, Tully TN. Determinination of plasma osmolality and agreement between measured and calculated values in healthy adult Hispaniolan Amazon parrots (Amazona ventralis). Am J Vet Res. 2009 Sep;70(9):1151-4.
• Additional Publications

• Komodo Dragon Species Survival Plan - Veterinary Committee
• Association of Exotic Small Mammals
• Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians
• Institutional Biosafety Committee
• CVM Executive Committee
• CVM On-line Modules Committee
• Colloquium Committee
• VTH Ad Hoc Committee - Strategy