Published 7/18/2024

During the 2023-2024 promotion process, MU Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Matthew Martens approved the promotion of several University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine faculty members. Recognizing their contributions to Mizzou’s mission of teaching, research, and engagement, three faculty members — one from each of the CVM departments — earned promotion with tenure, while four faculty members earned non-tenure track promotions. All changes in rank will be effective Sept. 1.

Pamela Adkins

Alison LaCarrubba

Martha Scharf

Corinne Bromfield

The Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery has four faculty members with promotions. Pamela Adkins, DVM, PhD, DACVIM – Large Animal, who has been on faculty at the CVM since 2015, earned promotion to associate professor of food animal medicine and surgery with tenure. Alison LaCarrubba, DVM, DABVP – Equine, earned promotion to teaching professor. LaCarrubba has been a faculty member since 2003. Martha Scharf, DVM, DABVP – Equine, who has been on faculty at the CVM since the completion of her rotating equine internship in 2009, earned promotion to associate teaching professor of equine ambulatory medicine. Corinne Bromfield, DVM, has been on faculty since 2016 and has been promoted to associate extension professor of swine production medicine.

In the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Laurel Grisanti, PhD, and Darla Tharp, PhD, earned promotion. Grisanti has served on faculty at the CVM since 2013 and was promoted to associate professor of biomedical sciences with tenure. Tharp, who joined the CVM faculty in 2008 after obtaining her PhD at the CVM, earned promotion to assistant professor of biomedical sciences.

Aaron Ericsson, DVM, PhD, who has been a CVM faculty member since 2013, was promoted to associate professor of pathobiology with tenure. Ericsson also serves as the director of the MU Metagenomics Center and lead scientist on microbiota research for the NIH-funded MU Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Center and Rat Resource and Research Center.

Interim Dean Leah Cohn, DVM, PhD, DACVIM – Small Animal Internal Medicine, congratulated the promoted faculty members. “Academic promotions do not come easily,” Cohn said. “It takes an incredible amount of dedication and hard work to achieve the necessary level of excellence in the missions of teaching, research productivity, and service to reach these milestones. The promotions of these excellent scholars prove their contributions to our academic community. Their innovations, scholarly rigor, and positive impact have benefited our students, our departments, our college, and our university. All of us at the College of Veterinary Medicine look forward to what they will accomplish next. Whatever they set their sights to, they can accomplish, making all of us better off in the process.”

By Nick Childress