Contact Information

Email: ballegee@msu.edu

Education

• BS, University of Notre Dame, 1997
• DVM, University of Wisconsin, 2001
• Residency, University of Wisconsin, 2006
• Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Radiology

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Ballegeer joined the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences on March 1, 2009, as an assistant professor of diagnostic imaging. She earned her veterinary degree and also did her four-year Radiology Residency at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Intervening between these four year programs, she did a one year Small Animal Internship in Medicine and Surgery at the Animal Medical Center in Manhattan, from 2001-2002. Following her residency, she has worked in a private small animal specialty practice just outside of Austin, TX, for three years, before deciding she missed the academic world.

Her research interests include positron emission tomography, particularly with applications in oncology, as pertains to liver masses in dogs and screening of asymptomatic dogs at high risk for certain cancers, MRI of the canine shoulder, and imaging of spinal anomalies in Pug dogs.