Kathryn Meurs

Bio

Dr. Meurs completed her DVM at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and completed a small animal internship at North Carolina State University. She completed a Cardiology residency at Texas A&M University and is board certified from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Cardiology). Dr. Meurs has a Ph.D. in Genetics from Texas A&M University and her areas of interest include familial aspects of cardiovascular disease, especially cardiomyopathy.

Area(s) of Expertise

Genetics, Spontaneous Animal Disease Models, Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease

Publications

• Familial Narcolepsy in Dogo Argentino Dogs Is Caused by a Tandem Duplication Mutation in HCRTR2 , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE (2025)
• Acquired dysfunction of CFTR underlies cystic fibrosis-like disease of the canine gallbladder , American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology (2024)
• An imminent need for veterinary medical educators: are we facing a crisis? , JAVMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (2024)
• The role of vector-borne pathogens and cardiac Striatin genotype on survival in boxer dogs with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY CARDIOLOGY (2024)
• Clinical outcome of idiopathic juvenile ventricular arrhythmias in 25 dogs , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY CARDIOLOGY (2023)
• Delayed-release rapamycin halts progression of left ventricular hypertrophy in subclinical feline hypertrophic results of the RAPACAT trial , JAVMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (2023)
• Evaluation of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Components and Enzymes in Systemically Hypertensive Cats Receiving Amlodipine , ANIMALS (2023)
• Evaluation of autoantibodies to desmoglein-2 in dogs with and without cardiac disease , Scientific Reports (2023)
• Investigation of the cardiac effects of exercise testing on apparently healthy Boxer dogs , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE (2023)
• No impact of polymorphism in the phosphodiesterase 5A gene in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels on pimobendan-induced inhibition of platelet aggregation response , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE (2023)