Bettina Dunkel
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Since 2008 Bettina has been employed as a lecturer in equine medicine at the Royal Veterinary College.
Bettina's research interests are equine platelet function and coagulation as well as equine neonatology and all aspects of equine critical care.
Biography
Bettina graduated from The Free University of Berlin in 2001. Following a Dorothy Havemeyer fellowship at Tufts University, Bettina completed a rotating equine internship at the Marion duPont Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, VA and a large animal internal medicine and emergency and critical care residency (alternate track) at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a member of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care since 2005. After moving to the UK, Bettina attained her PhD, focusing on equine platelet and neutrophil function, from the University of London in 2008. Since 2008 Bettina has been employed as a lecturer in equine medicine at the Royal Veterinary College.
Research
Bettina's research interests are equine platelet function and coagulation as well as equine neonatology and all aspects of equine critical care.
Teaching
Bettina is currently involved in treaching in the equine alimentary tract and neonatal diseases.
Clinical
Clinical interests are, similar to research interests, neonatal and foal diseases as well as respiratory diseases and critical care for adult and neonatal equine patients.
Selected Publications
B Dunkel, DM Bolt, RK Smith, FM Cunnigham: Stimulus-dependent release of tissue-regenerating factors by equine platelets. Accepted for publication in Equine Veterinary Journal May 2011
I Aktan, B Dunkel, FM Cunningham: IPKC isoenzymes in equine platelets and stimulus induced activation. Accepted for publication in J Vet Immunol Immunopathol March 2011
EJT Finding, E Eliashar, IC Johns, B Dunkel: Autologous blood transfusion following an allogenic transfusion reaction in a case of acute anaemia due to intra-abdominal bleeding. Accepted for publication in Equine Veterinary Education, September 2010
B Dunkel, KP Chaney, BL Dallap-Schaer, A Pellegrini-Masini, TS Mair, R Boston: Putative intestinal hyperammonaemia in horses: 36 cases. Equine veterinary Journal 43(2):133-140, 2011
B Dunkel, RW Sweeney, PL Habecker, AM Komaromy: Intraocular nematodiasis in a llama (Lama glama). Canadian Veterinary Journal 52:181–183, 2011
B Dunkel, DL Chan, R Boston, L Monreal: Association between hypercoagulability and decreased survival in horses with ischemic or inflammatory gastrointestinal disease. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 24(6):1467-74, 2010
RJ Naylor, B Dunkel, S Dyson, M Paz-Penuelas, J Dobson, BA Summers: A retrobulbar syncitial meningioma as a cause of unilateral exophthalmus and blindness in a horse. Equine Vet Educ 22(10):503-510, 2010
B Dunkel: Intestinal hyperammonaemia in horses. Equine Vet Educ 22(7):340-345, 2010
B Dunkel, KJ Rickards, D Werling, CP Page, FM Cunningham: Regulation of equine platelet activation by phosphodiesterase and the effect of antigen challenge on platelet phosphodiesterase in horses with recurrent airway obstruction. Am J Vet Res 71(5):534-540, 2010
RJ Naylor, B Dunkel: The treatment of diarrhea in the adult horse. Equine Vet Educ 21(9):494-504, 2009
B Dunkel, KJ Rickards, D Werling, CP Page, FM Cunningham: Neutrophil and platelet activation in equine recurrent airway obstruction is associated with increased neutrophil CD13 expression, but not platelet CD41/61 and CD62P or neutrophil-platelet aggregate formation. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 131 (1-2):25-32, 2009
B Dunkel: Diagnosis and treatment of non-infectious and infectious foal diarrhoea. Pferdeheilkunde 24(4):529-539, 2008
B Dunkel: Supportive care for the critically ill neonatal foal. Pferdeheilkunde 24(4):540-548, 2008
FM Cunningham, B Dunkel: Equine recurrent airway obstruction and insect bite hypersensitivity: Understanding the diseases and uncovering possible new therapeutic approaches. Vet J 177(3):334-44, 2008
B Dunkel, KJ Rickards, CP Page, FM Cunningham: Phosphodiesterase isoenzymes in equine platelets and their influence on platelet adhesion. Am J Vet Res 68(12):1354-1360, 2007
PA Wilkins, CM Otto, JE Baumgardner, B Dunkel, D Bedenice, MR Paradis, F Staffieri, RS Syring, J Slack, S Grasso, G Pranzo. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndromes in veterinary medicine: consensus definitions: The Dorothy Russell Havemeyer Working Group on ALI and ARDS in Veterinary Medicine. J Vet Emerg Crit Care 17(4), 333-339, 2007
B Dunkel, KJ Rickards, CP Page, FM Cunningham: Platelet activation in ponies with airway inflammation. Equine Vet J 39(6):557-561, 2007
B Dunkel: Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome in foals. Clinical Techniques in Equine Practice, 5:127-133, 2006
BW Rohrbach, BR Buchanan, JM Drake, FM Andrews, FT Bain, DT Byars, WV Bernard, MO Furr, MR Paradis, J Lawler, S Giguere, B. Dunkel: Use of a multivariant model to estimate the probability of discharge in hospitalized foals that are 7 days or less of age. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 228(11):1748-1756, June 2006
B Dunkel, JE Palmer, KN Olson, RC Boston, PA Wilkins. Uroperitoneum in 32 foals: influence of intravenous fluid therapy, infection, and sepsis. J Vet Int Med 19(6), 889-893, 2005
B Dunkel, B Dolente, RC Boston. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome in 15 foals. Equine Vet J 37(5), 435-440, 2005
B Dunkel, AB Shokek, PA Wilkins: Congenital cystic polypoid rectal hamartoma in a newborn foal. Vet Pathol, 41(6):700-702, 2004
B Dunkel, F Del Piero, BM Kraus, JE Palmer, P Lin, PA Wilkins: Congenital cutaneous, oral and periarticular hemangiosarcoma in a 9 day-old Rocky Mountain horse. J Vet Int Med 18(2):252-255, 2004
B Dunkel, PA Wilkins: Nutrition in critically ill equine patients. Clinics of North America Equine Practice 20(1):107-126, 2004
B Dunkel, PA Wilkins: Infectious foal diarrhoea: pathophysiology, prevalence and diagnostics. Equine Vet Educ 16(2):94-101, 2004
B Dunkel, F Del Piero, KL Wotman, IC Johns, J Beech, PA Wilkins: Encephalitis due to West Nile flavivirus in three alpacas. J Vet Int Med, 18(3):365-367, 2004
B Dunkel, HC Mckenzie III: Severe Hypertriglyceridaemia in clinically ill horses: diagnosis, treatment and outcome. Equine Vet J 35(6):590-5, September 2003