A Pathology Hero

Dr. Jerry Ritchey, associate professor of veterinary pathobiology, has been teaching for 15 years and is a two-time winner of the Regents Distinguished Teaching Award. He attributes his success to enjoyment.

“I try to make learning fun,” he says. “I concentrate on what’s important in the veterinary curriculum and present it in a way that makes it interesting, which could include games, music, videos and comedy routines.”

Ritchey teaches general pathology, systems pathology and necropsy. He says he entered the field of pathology because he was so impressed with his pathology professors here at OSU.

“I would like to think there are some students who are so impressed with my knowledge and excitement that they, too, become pathologists. I want to be someone’s pathology hero as Drs. Roger Panciera and Anthony Confer have been mine.”