Comparative Medicine
Chair:
Linda C. Cork, DVM, PhD
Department web site:
http://med.stanford.edu/compmed/
Faculty of Comparative Medicine:
http://med.stanford.edu/compmed/research/facultyprofiles
Department Offices:
Edwards Building, Room R321
Mail Code 5342
Stanford, CA 94305-5342
(650) 498-5080
Courses given in Comparative Medicine have the subject code COMPMED.
The Department of Comparative Medicine is a clinical department that offers residency training in laboratory animal medicine for veterinarians, although it does not offer degrees. Its faculty offer courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and participate in teaching in other departments. Both clinical faculty members, who are specialists in a veterinary medical specialty, and basic science faculty also accept students to participate in ongoing research projects within the department and assist students with special research projects.
The discipline of Comparative Medicine utilizes the differences and similarities among species to understand basic biologic and disease mechanisms. Comparative Medicine incorporates the use of spontaneous or induced disease models as one of several approaches to research. The research interests of faculty members are in neuroscience, infectious diseases, neuropathology, cancer and molecular genetics.
