Ailbhe King

Bio

Dr. Ailbhe King is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Ruminant Medicine in the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Ailbhe received her Veterinary Medicine degree from the College of Veterinary Medicine at University College Dublin, Ireland in 2015. Thereafter she spent some time in mixed animal practice in England before completing a residency in Large Animal Internal Medicine at UC Davis. She became boarded in Large Animal Internal Medicine and took a position as an Assistant Professor of Production Animal Medicine at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in St. Kitts. While working at RUSVM she also completed a Master’s through research where she investigated the effect of pooling colostrum on the transfer of passive immunity in dairy calves.

Dr. King’s research interests include but are not limited to calf health and veterinary education.

Affiliations

• American Association of Bovine Practitioners
• American Veterinary Medical Association
• American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
• Academy of Educators

 

Area(s) of Expertise

Food Animal Internal Medicine

Publications

• Critique of Approaches for Evaluating Teaching and Proposal for a New Institutional Policy. , Journal of veterinary medical education (2023)
• Determination of minimum individual cow colostral immunoglobulin G concentration required to provide adequate total immunoglobulin G mass in pooled colostrum fed to Jersey calves , Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (2023)
• Overall good agreement of smartphone-based and standard base-apex electrocardiography in healthy sheep , JAVMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (2023)
• Transfer of passive immunity and survival in Jersey heifer calves fed heat-treated pooled colostrum , FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE (2023)
• Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Influences on Neonatal Immunity, Growth and Puberty of Calves—A Review , Animals (2021)
• Clinical management and outcomes for goats, sheep, and pigs hospitalized for treatment of burn injuries sustained in wildfires: 28 cases (2006, 2015, and 2018) , Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (2020)
• Short communication: Effect of feeding pooled and nonpooled high-quality colostrum on passive transfer of immunity, morbidity, and mortality in dairy calves , Journal of Dairy Science (2020)
• Prevalence of and risk factors for intravenous catheter infection in hospitalized cattle, goats, and sheep , Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (2019)

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