Associate Chair of Clinical Studies, Vet Medicine	Print Issue
February 17, 2009, Volume 55, No. 22

Dr. Kenneth J. Drobatz, professor of critical care in the School of Veterinary Medicine, is adding an additional title, associate chair of clinical studies—Philadelphia. He is also the section chief of critical care at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital and associate chair of education for the department of clinical studies—Philadelphia.

Dr. Drobatz received his BA in cellular and molecular biology from California State University in 1978, BS in veterinary science from University of California, Davis in 1983 and his DVM from the University of California, Davis in 1985. He also earned an MS in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and he is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. 

He has been director of the emergency services at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital since 1991, when he joined the faculty and became the chief of the section of critical care in 2006. 

He has collaborated on numerous clinical research projects primarily involving common small animal veterinary emergency conditions and more specific conditions such as trauma, electrolyte emergencies and respiratory emergencies.