There are typically 5 postdoctoral fellows enrolled in the program with 1 or 2 trainees joining and leaving the program each year. The current trainees can be contacted at [email protected].
Current Fellows
Morganne Campbell, 3rd year resident (2020-2023):
Morganne is a proud native of Windsor, Connecticut. During her undergraduate years at University of Maryland, she gained an appreciation for biomedical research while working as a Lab Animal Technician and Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Embryology Department under Dr. Carol Keefer. Prior to vet school, she continued to follow her passion in research as a Research Assistant in Lieber Institute for Brain Development at Johns Hopkins, under the guidance of Dr. Brady Maher. She received her DVM from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Her interests include rodent and canine husbandry, and neuroscience. Her current research project is focused on assessing rodent activity levels as a quantitative measurement of efficacy of postoperative analgesics and animal well-being using a novel telemetry device, the Rodent Fitbit. During her free time, she enjoys cooking, watching sports, anime, hiking and salsa dancing.
Glory Leung, 1st year resident (2022-2025):
Glory is from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where he completed an undergraduate degree in Applied Animal Biology from the University of British Columbia. During his time in undergrad, he conducted lymphatic research at the University of Calgary as part of a co-op term where he was exposed to various research models and laboratory animal medicine. He obtained his DVM from The Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan before moving to New York for this residency. His interests lies in aquatics and rodents and hopes to widen the field of laboratory animal medicine back home in Canada. In his free time, he enjoys learning new languages, hiking, karaoke, and exploring new places around the city.
Abigail Michelson, 1st year resident (2022-2025):
Abigail Michelson is from Medfield, Massachusetts and she completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at Smith College. She worked as a small animal veterinary technician/assistant for two years before going to veterinary school at Ross University on the island of St. Kitts. She completed her clinical year at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. During her veterinary education, she was a research assistant on numerous projects including: gut microbiota of dogs fed a plant based diet, Aspergillus spp. infected sea fans, and Leptospirosis spp. in dogs in the greater Wisconsin area. Her clinical interests revolve around primates and rabbits and in her free time she enjoys cooking, running, drawing, and enjoying Broadway shows.
Noah Mishkin, 2nd year resident (2021-2024):
Noah is happy to return to NYC, having lived here prior to veterinary school. Noah’s appreciation for biomedical research was developed during his undergraduate research at Ithaca College. Here, he worked with a guinea pig model of myocardial infarction and provided husbandry care to atypical research models including snakes and arachnids. After graduation, Noah worked as an animal care technician and assistant facility manager at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Noah received his DVM from Colorado State University, where he continued to work with guinea pigs (this time as a model for tuberculosis). He is excited to return to MSK as part of the Tri-I Training Program to pursue professional interests in animal welfare, enrichment, and infectious disease. His current research investigates transmission of the murine bacterial pathogen Chlamydia muridarum and its impacts on research outcomes and animal health. In his free time, Noah enjoys exploring all NYC has to eat and drink, attending concerts, and playing board games.
Michael Palillo, 2nd year resident (2021-2024):
Michael is originally from Long Island, New York. Michael received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Delaware, where he worked as an Animal Care Technician, Lab Animal Technician, and Research assistant. These experiences helped to fuel his passion for biomedical research, where he cared for rodent models, while performing microbiome, nutritional efficacy, silage additive and bovine lactation studies on bovine and equine models. He received his MS in Translational Pharmacology and DVM from The Ohio State University in 2021. His research interests include pharmacology, aquatics, antibiotic efficacy, and infectious diseases. He clinically has a strong interest in exotics, emergency medicine and aquatics. His current research project focuses on the treatment of Chlamydia muridarum in immunocompetent and immunodeficient murine models, as well as, the effect of treatment on the microbiome. He additionally is performing a descriptive study on fomite transmission of adventitious rodent diseases in the vivarium setting. During his free time, he enjoys exercising, hiking, scuba diving, concerts, horticulture and spending time with friends.
Prior Fellows
Alyssa Mcintyre, DVM
2003-2006
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Joyce Cohen, VMD
2003-2006
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Lotus Altholtz, DVM
2003-2006
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Richard Wong, DVM
2003-2006
Anatomic Pathology (with AMC)
Ana Paula Garate, DVM
2005-2008
Anatomic Pathology (with AMC)
Virginia Gillespie , DVM
2006-2009
Anatomic Pathology (with AMC)
Kelly Yamada, VMD
2006-2009
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Rodolfo Ricart, DVM
2006-2009
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Skye Rasmussen, DVM
2007-2010
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Holly Burr, DVM
2007-2010
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Amy Cassano, DVM
2008-2011
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Gordon Roble, DVM
2008-2011
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Lee-Ronn Paluch, BVSc
2009-2012
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Gopinath Palanisamy, BVSc, Ph.D.
2010-2012
Comparative Pathology
Kimberly Such, DVM
2010-2013
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Leslie Diaz, DVM
2010-2013
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Chereen Collymore, DVM
2011-2014
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Irka Redelsperger, DVM
2011-2014
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Michelle Lepherd, BVSc, Ph.D.
2011-2012
Comparative Pathology
Hannah Bender, BVSc, Ph.D.
2012-2013
Comparative Pathology
Gillian Braden, VMD
2012-2015
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Robin Kramer, DVM
2012-2015
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Katie Boland, DVM
2013-2014
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Melissa Nashat, Ph.D, DVM
2013-2016
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Philip Gerwin, DVM
2013-2016
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Andrew Gorman, DVM
2013-2016
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Sara Santagostino, DVM, Ph.D.
2015-2017
Comparative Pathology
Nicholas Tataryn, DVM
2014-2017
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Samantha Peneyra, DVM
2014-2017
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Christopher Cheleuitte-Nieves, Ph.D., DVM
2015-2018
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Sean Kelly, VMD
2016-2019
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Mariya Gugel, DVM
2016-2019
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Mandy Kain, DVM
2017-2020
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Kathleen Ma, DVM
2017-2020
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Adam Michel, DVM, MS
2017-2018
Comparative Pathology
Gabriel Pastenkos, DVM
2018-2019
Comparative Pathology
Sarah Kitz, VMD
2019-2020
Comparative Pathology
Rebecca Floyd, DVM
2018-2021
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Amanda Carlson, DVM
2019-2022
Laboratory Animal Medicine
Gerardo Mendoza, DVM
2019-2022
Laboratory Animal Medicine