New Faces at the Center

Dr. Tamara Gull, assistant professor in veterinary pathobiology, is originally from Chicago by way of Florida, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas, Guam and various overseas locations.

Gull earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, a DVM degree from Tufts University and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Her research interests include infectious disease, especially bacterial respiratory diseases of cattle.

She instructs the bacteriology and mycology course taught to second-year students, participates as an instructor in the first-year immunology course and provides consultation to fourth-year students with clinical medicine cases in equine and food animal species.

Gull is a major in the U.S. Army Reserve Veterinary Corps attached to the 994th Medical Detachment in Round Rock, Texas.

Dr. Chelsea Makloski, an assistant professor of theriogenology in the Veterinary Clinical Sciences Department, is from Trinidad, Colo. She earned her undergraduate degree at New Mexico State University and OSU.

She earned a master’s and a DVM degree at OSU. Following graduation in 2006, Makloski completed a rotating hospital internship at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., and a theriogenology residency at OSU.

Makloski’s research interests are mare infertility, canine infertility and canine brucellosis.

Dr. John Gilliam is a clinical assistant professor in food animal production medicine and field services.

Gilliam, originally from Macomb, Okla., is not new to OSU. He earned his bachelor’s degree, master’s and DVM degree at OSU as well as completing a residency in food animal medicine at the veterinary center.

He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners.

Dr. Dustin Devine is an assistant professor of equine surgery originally from Weatherford, Okla.

He earned his bachelor’s degree at Southwestern Oklahoma State University and his DVM degree at OSU in 2002.

Following graduation, Devine completed an internship at Peterson and Smith Equine Hospital, a master’s degree and a surgical residency at OSU.

Devine is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and is interested in clinical investigation as well as minimally invasive surgical techniques.

Dr. Lesa Staubus is a veterinary clinical sciences lecturer for shelter medicine and junior surgery.

Staubus, originally from Oklahoma City, has spent time in the Virgin Islands and south Florida. She earned a bachelor’s degree in zoology at the University of Oklahoma and her DVM degree from OSU in 1990.

Joe Fusco, who was born in Vermont and raised in Tulsa, Okla., is the new information technology supervisor at the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in radio and television from the OSU School of Journalism and Broadcasting and has lived in Stillwater for the last 20 years.

He has worked for OSU as a media production specialist for Audio Visual, as a computer technician for the College of Arts and Sciences and as email postmaster for CIS/Information Technology. He has also worked with a few companies outside OSU, including, most recently, Dell in Oklahoma City.