VTPP Faculty Member - DAVID MARTIN HOOD, D.V.M., Ph.D.

DAVID MARTIN HOOD, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Email: dhood@cvm.tamu.edu

EDUCATION:

Kemper Military Academy, Boonville, Missouri, 1967
B.S., Biology, Abilene Christian College, 1971
M.S. Veterinary Physiology, Texas A&M University, 1973
B.S., Veterinary Science, Texas A&M University, 1974
D.V.M., Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, 1975
Ph.D., Veterinary Physiology, Texas A&M University, 1984

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

Laboratory Instructor, Department of Biology, Abilene Christian College
Graduate Assistant, Veterinary Physiology, Texas A&M University
Research Assistant, Veterinary Physiology, Texas A&M University
Assistant Professor, Veterinary Physiology, Texas A&M University
Associate Professor, Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas A&M University

HONORS:

Fellow of Morris Animal Foundation
John Paul Delaplane Award

FUNDED RESEARCH:

Research on physiology and pathologies of the equine foot are privately funded.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Association of Equine Practitioners
Texas Veterinary Medical Association
Phi Zeta
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Sigma
American Veterinary Medical Association

SELECTED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (last 5 years):

Hood DM. The principals of hoof wall conformation. In: Hood DM Wagner IP and Jacobson AC eds. Proceedings of the Hoof Project. College Station: Privately published 1997;2-20.

Baker S, Steinheimer D, Burt N, Hood DM. Nuclear angiogram study of physiologic weight bearing and alpha-adrenergic blockers on equine digital blood flow. In: Hood DM Wagner IP and Jacobson AC eds. Proceedings of the Hoof Project. College Station: Privately published 1997;53-57.

Burt N, Baker S, Robertson I, Hogan H, Hood DM. Digital instability as a prognostic indicator in horses with chronic laminitis. In: Hood DM Wagner IP and Jacobson AC eds. Proceedings of the Hoof Project. College Station: Privately published 1997;105-115.

Slater MR, Hood DM, Carter GK. A cross sectional study of hoof wall problems and associated factors. Eq Vet J 1997;29(1):67-69.

Hood DM. Laminitis in the horse. Vet Clinics of North America Equine Practice 1999;15(2):287-294.

Hood DM. The pathophysiology of developmental and acute laminitis. Vet Clinics of North America: Equine Practice 1999;15(2):321-343.

Herthel D. Hood DM. Clinical presentation, diagnosis, and prognosis of chronic laminitis. Vet Clinics of North America: Equine Practice 1999;15(2):375-394.

Morgan SJ, Grosenbaugh DA, Hood DM. Pathophysiology of chronic laminitis: Pain and anatomic pathology. Vet Clinics of North America: Equine Practice 1999;15(2):395-417.

Grosenbaugh DA, Morgan SJ, Hood DM. Pathophysiology of chronic laminitis: the digital lesions. Vet Clinics of North America: Equine Practice 1999;15(2):419-436.

Hood DM. The mechanisms and consequences of structural failure of the foot. Vet Clinics of North America: Equine Practice 1999;15(2):437-461.

Hood DM. Laminitis as a systemic disease. Vet Clinics of North America: Equine Practice 1999;15(2):481-494.

Wagner IP, Hood DM, Hogan HA. Comparisons of the bending modulus and yield strength between outer stratum medium and stratum medium zona alba in equine hooves. Am J Vet Res 2001;62(5):745-751.

Hood DM, Taylor D, Wagner IP. Effects of ground surface deformability, trimming and shoeing on quasistaic hoof loading patterns in horses. Am J Vet Res 2001;62(6):895-900.

Hood DM, Wagner IP, Brumbaugh GW. Evaluation of hoof wall surface temperature as an index of digital vascular perfusion during the prodromal and acute phases of carbohydrate-induced laminitis in horses. Am J Vet Res 2001;62(7):1167-1172.

Hood DM, Wagner IP, Taylor DD, Brumbaugh GW, Chaffin MK. Voluntary limb load distribution in horses with acute and chronic laminitis. Am J Vet Res 2001; 62(9):1393-1398.

Hood DM, Brumbaugh GW, Wagner IP. Effectiveness of the unique dihydropyridine (BAY TG 1000) for prevention of laminitis in horses. Am J Vet Res 2002; 63(3):443-447

Hoff TK, Hood DM, Wagner IP. Effectiveness of glyceryl trinitrate on enhancing digital submural perfusion in the equine. Am J Vet Res Accepted for publication, Dec 2001.

Wagner IP, Hood DM. Effects of prolonged water immersion on the equine hoof. Am J Vet Res Accepted for publication, March 2002.

Taylor D, Hood DM, Wagner IP. Effect of therapeutic shoeing on lameness severity in the horse with chronic laminitis. Am J Vet Res Submitted for publication, March 2002.

Morgan SJ, Hood DM, Wagner IP. Histopathology of peracute laminitis. Am J Vet Res Submitted for publication, March 2002.