{"id":7992,"date":"2025-09-03T12:51:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/?page_id=7992"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:14:17","slug":"dr-mark-ackermann-new-faculty-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/dr-mark-ackermann-new-faculty-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mark Ackermann New Faculty Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7993\" src=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/markackermann3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Ackermann in office with a microscope \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/markackermann3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/markackermann3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/markackermann3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/markackermann3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/markackermann3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/markackermann3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Professor, Veterinary Pathology<br \/>\n<em>Anatomic Pathology<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<br \/>\n<\/strong>DVM, Iowa State University, 1986<br \/>\nPhD, Veterinary Pathology, Iowa State University, 1989<br \/>\nDiplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists, 1990<\/p>\n<p><strong>Past Experience<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr. Mark Ackermann is returning to the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Veterinary Pathology after spending almost a decade away from Iowa State. He was on the college faculty from 1996 to 2017 before leaving to become the director of the Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Oregon State University and then serving as the director of the USDA National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames for the past three years. He previously worked as a veterinary medical officer at the NADC after graduating with his DVM and was briefly director of anatomic pathology for Zoetis in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A Diplomate with the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Ackermann has served as that organization\u2019s secretary\/treasurer and the also president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research<br \/>\n<\/strong>Throughout his career, Dr. Ackermann has been a high-achieving researcher. He helped discover and eliminate Bovine Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency and created a lamb model of human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. He has authored 159 peer-reviewed publications and multiple book chapters. His grant funding has come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, Johnson &amp; Johnson and many other biopharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interesting Fact<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr. Ackermann has reported out over 500,000 diagnostic reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Ackermann says\u2026<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cFor diagnostic service, I especially enjoy surgical pathology of dogs and cats but for research I fell in love with RSV research, shipping fever and chronic enteropathy.\u201d<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>September 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"site_sections":["VETMED","VPATH"]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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