Raymond J. Geor, BVSc, MVSc, PhD, DACVIM
Department: LCS
E-mail:
Phone: 517/355-9593
Office: D202 VMC
Professor and Chairperson
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Large Animal), 1990
PhD, The Ohio State University, 1999
MVSc, University of Saskatchewan, 1988
BVSc, Massey University, New Zealand, 1983
Specialty: Equine/Medicine
Research Interests: laminitis; equine endocrine/metabolic disease; clinical nutrition
Dr. Ray Geor earned his veterinary degree from Massey University in New Zealand in 1983 and completed a large-animal internship at Murdoch University in Australia in 1984. He then did a large-animal residency and completed an MVSc degree at Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, in 1988. He earned a PhD from the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1999. He is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Large Animal).
Before coming to MSU, his most recent position was the Paul Mellon Distinguished Chair in Agriculture and director of the Middleburg Agricultural Research and Extension Center (MARE) at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Previous to that he held faculty positions at the veterinary colleges at the University of Guelph and University of Minnesota. He was also an equine research fellow at the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine and director of research at Kentucky Equine Research Inc.
His clinical and research interests, broadly speaking, are in equine medicine, nutrition and exercise science. A current research focus is the interactions between obesity, inflammation and insulin resistance, and how these conditions increase susceptibility to laminitis.
