Heather Wilsonrobles

Heather M. Wilson-Robles received the DVM degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2003. She completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery with the University of Minnesota, in 2004 and a residency in medical oncology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 2007. She joined the Veterinary Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, in 2007 as a clinical assistant professor, converted to a tenture track position in 2008 and was awarded tenure, in 2014, and a full professor in 2020. She teaches primarily in the second and third year Veterinary curriculum. Additionally, she teaches fourth year students and house officers in a small group setting in the hospital. Her research has two main foci- bench based discovery targeting tumor initiating cells while exploiting common drugable pathways between canine and human cancers and clinical research using dogs as a model for human pediatric cancer. She has received more than $\$\;$$8.1 million in external funding from a variety of sources. She has written 38 peer reviewed publications, 27 book chapters and authored more than 40 scientific oral abstracts at national meetings. She was recently awarded the TVMA Medical Specialist of the Year Award and is the president elect for the Veterinary Cancer Society.