Joshua Stern

Bio

Dr. Joshua Stern serves as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. He is also a Professor of Cardiology in the Department of Clinical Sciences at NC State. Dr. Stern obtained his DVM from Ohio State University, completed his cardiology residency training at NC State, and obtained a PhD focusing on translational cardiac genetics at Washington State University. He is the Principal Investigator for the Stern Translational Cardiac Genetics and Pharmacogenomics Laboratory which focuses on training clinician scientists and developing novel therapies for inherited heart disease.

 Dr. Stern serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine and is the current President for the Subspecialty of Cardiology in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He was honored with the 2024 AVMF Career Achievement Award in Feline Medicine. Dr. Stern is an avid supporter of clinician scientists and is passionate about training the next generation of veterinary academic leaders. Together, with his laboratory teams, Dr. Stern has published over 140 peer-reviewed research manuscripts contributing to the advancement of companion animal genetics and translational cardiology.

A full list of Dr. Stern’s published work can be found at here.

Publications

• Familial Narcolepsy in Dogo Argentino Dogs Is Caused by a Tandem Duplication Mutation in HCRTR2 , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE (2025)
• The T-wave peak-end to QT ratio is prolonged and minimally influenced by RR interval in Doberman Pinschers with subclinical dilated cardiomyopathy , Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (2025)
• A novel ITGA2B double cytosine frameshift variant (c.1986_1987insCC) leads to Glanzmann's thrombasthenia in a cat , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE (2024)
• Cardiac myosin inhibitor, CK-586, minimally reduces systolic function and ameliorates obstruction in feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2024)
• Correlation, agreement and concordance of cardiac output estimated by transthoracic ultrasound and transesophageal Doppler with pulmonary artery thermodilution in anesthetized cats , VETERINARY ANAESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA (2024)
• Evaluation of clopidogrel response in healthy cats using a novel viscoelastic test and thromboelastography , FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE (2024)
• Platelet hyperresponsiveness and increased platelet-neutrophil aggregates in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease and pulmonary hypertension , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE (2024)
• Single Cell Transcriptomic Profiling of MYBPC3 ‐Associated Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Across Species Reveals Conservation of Biological Process But Not Gene Expression , Journal of the American Heart Association (2024)
• Training the next generation of veterinary academic leaders , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH (2024)
• Transcriptomic and genetic profiling in a spontaneous non-human primate model of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and sudden cardiac death , SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2024)