Philip H Kass, Ph.D.

Research Focus

• Quantitative epidemiology (companion animals)
• Non-experimental inference
• Epidemiologic methodology and analysis
• Epidemiology of environmental hazards of animals and humans
• Companion animal epidemiology
• Hospital-based surveillance methodology
• Cancer research

Recent Publications

Five recent publications (from over 500 publications)

• 1. Knych HK, Weiner D, Arthur RM, Baden R, McKemie DS, Kass PH. Serum concentrations, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling, and effects of dexamethasone on inflammatory mediators following intravenous and oral administration to exercised horses. Drug Testing and Analysis (2020);12:1087-1101
• 2. Kilcoyne I, Dechant JE, Kass PH, Nieto JE. Evaluation of the risk of incisional infection in horses following application of protective dressings after exploratory celiotomy for treatment of colic. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association(2019);254:1441-1447.
• 3. Cooper AE, Thomasy SM, Drazenovich TL, Kass PH, Potniss SS, Leutenegger CM, Maggs DJ. Prophylactic and therapeutic effects of twice-daily famciclovir administration on infections upper respiratory disease in shelter-housed cats. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery (2018);32:1731-1739
• 4. Knych HK, Harrison L, Chouicha N, Kass PH. Expression of inflammatory and structural matrix genes in synovial fluid following intra-articular administration of isoflupredone acetate to exercised horses. Equine Veterinary Journal (2018);50:504-512.
• 5. Karsten CL, Wagner DC, Kass PH, Hurley KF. An observational study of the relationship between Capacity for Care as an animal shelter management model and cat health, adoption and death in three animal shelters. Veterinary Journal (2017);227:15-22.

Education

• 1990 PhD Comparative Pathology/Epidemiology, University of California, Davis, CA
• 1988 MS Statistics, University of California, Davis, CA