Journal Article: Less is more? Ultra-low carbohydrate diet and working dogs’ performance
Gal, Arnon, Cuttance, Williams, Cave, Nick, Lopez-Villalobos, Nicolas, Herndon, Aaron, Giles, Juila and Burchell, Richard (2021). Less is more? Ultra-low carbohydrate diet and working dogs’ performance. PLoS One, 16 (12) e0261506, e0261506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261506
Journal Article: Perceptions of dog owners towards canine gastrointestinal parasitism and associated human health risk in Southeast Queensland
Nguyen, Tu, Clark, Nicholas, Jones, Malcolm K., Herndon, Aaron, Mallyon, John, Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo J. and Abdullah, Swaid (2021). Perceptions of dog owners towards canine gastrointestinal parasitism and associated human health risk in Southeast Queensland. One Health, 12 100226, 100226. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100226
Seddon, Jennifer M., Cobbold, Rowland N., Mai, Duong C., Keates, Helen, Hill, Jon, Hoa, Ho T.K., Mills, Paul C., Herndon, Aaron, Hien, Thanh Le, Schull, Dan, Parke, Christopher, Toan, Nguyen Tat, Kopp, Steven, Wright, John D., Thong, Le Quang and Tra An, Vo Thi (2020). Sharing ideas and practice: institutional partnership influences change in approaches to teaching to enhance veterinary education in Vietnam in conjunction with an OIE Veterinary Education Twinning Project. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 47 (s1), e20190111-91. doi: 10.3138/jvme-2019-0111
Efficacy of an herbal topical formulation for the control of pruritus in dogs with atopic dermatitis
(2023–2024) Red Healer
(2019–2021) Research Donation Generic
A Survey of professional and public awareness of parasitic infestation in pet dogs of Queensland
(2019–2020) John & Mary Kibble Trust
Measurement and Prevention of Obesity in Young Healthy Dogs
Doctor Philosophy
Prevalence of canine urinary bacterial isolates and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in south eastern Queensland
(2023) Doctor Veterinary Clinical Sci
Transcriptome signature of canine osteosarcoma and role of cytokines in the neoplastic growth
(2021) Doctor Philosophy
Capstone Assessment of Final Year Veterinary Students
Graduates of the BVSc are considered "practice ready" for licensure in Australia. In order to ensure that students have met the program learning objectives and can demonstrate the requisite technical skills, clinical skills, and knowledge base the School of Veterinary Science re-designed our assessment format and instituted a new "capstone" examination administered to all students at the end of their clinical year. This project aims to investigate the performance of the assessment, student and staff opinions about the new assessment structure, and impacts of this assessment on the students and curriculum.
Students must have a keen interest in medical education, curriculum design, assessment pedagogy, and skills assessment. This project is designed around assessment of the BVSc, but the outcomes are easily applicable to many other disciples within the health sciences and beyond. There is tremendous opportunity for collaborative and inter-disciplinary translation of this work. Candidates from education, medicine, physiotherapy, dentistry, nursing, or midwifery would all find significant overlap between our respective disciplines and all are welcome to contact our research team.
Depending on the interest of a candidate, aspects of this project may be suitable for a masters-level degree or may be considered suitable for PhD-level research for the right canditate.
Models for Assessment of Clinical Skills
Medical training has evolved over recent decades to include an increased reliance on models and simulation for teaching and learning. The reasons for this are multifacited, but include movement away from live-patient/animal practice, decreased learning stress, and ability to easily revise material independent of patient load. There is a robust body of literature describing the use of models for training and learning. However, the literature describing the use of models for assessment of technical skills is lean at best.
This project aims to evaluate and validate certain models for both the learning and assessment of techinical skills. Our hypothesis is that assessment of some technical skills on models will be equivalent to that of assessing the skills on a live patient. We expect that the benefits on student stress, additional opportunities for assessment, and decreased animal use will result in overall greater satisfaction of student learning and better attainment of program learning objectives.
Models and simulation are commonly employed in the teaching of all health sciences. Candidates from medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, and midwifery (to name a few) are welcome to contact our research group.
Relationship Centred Practice and the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship in the Teaching Hospital
The concept of the Relationship Centred Practice is well-established in the field of the human health-sciences. However this concept is infrequently encountered in the veterinary setting. Beginning in 2021, the veterinary teaching hospital has begun a transition to RCP as our healthcare delivery model. At the same time, several of our internal rotations were merged to create a longitudinal integrated clinical clerkship. This project aims to investigate the outcomes of this shift in teaching delivery and practice organisation on the program outcomes of our Bachelor of Veterinary Science(Hons) students and the veterinary teaching hospital. There are a number of projects that can be considered as a part of this larger body of work. Given the translational nature of this project, we welcome interest from candidates in the fields of education, medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, dentistry, and midwifery.
Less is more? Ultra-low carbohydrate diet and working dogs’ performance
Gal, Arnon, Cuttance, Williams, Cave, Nick, Lopez-Villalobos, Nicolas, Herndon, Aaron, Giles, Juila and Burchell, Richard (2021). Less is more? Ultra-low carbohydrate diet and working dogs’ performance. PLoS One, 16 (12) e0261506, e0261506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261506
Nguyen, Tu, Clark, Nicholas, Jones, Malcolm K., Herndon, Aaron, Mallyon, John, Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo J. and Abdullah, Swaid (2021). Perceptions of dog owners towards canine gastrointestinal parasitism and associated human health risk in Southeast Queensland. One Health, 12 100226, 100226. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100226
Seddon, Jennifer M., Cobbold, Rowland N., Mai, Duong C., Keates, Helen, Hill, Jon, Hoa, Ho T.K., Mills, Paul C., Herndon, Aaron, Hien, Thanh Le, Schull, Dan, Parke, Christopher, Toan, Nguyen Tat, Kopp, Steven, Wright, John D., Thong, Le Quang and Tra An, Vo Thi (2020). Sharing ideas and practice: institutional partnership influences change in approaches to teaching to enhance veterinary education in Vietnam in conjunction with an OIE Veterinary Education Twinning Project. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 47 (s1), e20190111-91. doi: 10.3138/jvme-2019-0111
Comparison of a continuous indwelling glucometer with a point-of-care device in healthy adult horses
Cunneen, Alexandra, Wood, Kelly A., Mathison, Kylie, Herndon, Aaron M. and Bertin, Francois R (2020). Comparison of a continuous indwelling glucometer with a point-of-care device in healthy adult horses. Veterinary Record, 187 (3), vetrec-2019. doi: 10.1136/vr.105607
Irac, Sergio Erdal, Oksa, Annika , Jackson, Karen , Herndon, Aaron , Allavena, Rachel and Palmieri, Chiara (2019). Cytokine expression in canine lymphoma, osteosarcoma, mammary gland tumour and melanoma: comparative aspects. Veterinary Sciences, 6 (2) 37, 37. doi: 10.3390/vetsci6020037
Diagnosis and treatment of lower motor neuron disease in Australian dogs and cats
Herndon, A. M., Thompson, A. T. and Mack, C. (2018). Diagnosis and treatment of lower motor neuron disease in Australian dogs and cats. Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2018, 1-11. doi: 10.1155/2018/1018230
Morel-Lavallée lesions: a phenomenon in cats? Case report and review of the literature
McGhie, Jayne A., Gibson, Ian D. and Herndon, Aaron M. (2018). Morel-Lavallée lesions: a phenomenon in cats? Case report and review of the literature. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 4 (1). doi: 10.1177/2055116918774469
Complications of severe tick infestation
Herndon, Aaron and Little, Susan (2015). Complications of severe tick infestation. NAVC Clinician's Brief, 13 (4), 19-21.
Tick, Tick, Tick: Time to Manage Canine Tick Infestation
Herndon, Aaron and Little, Susan (2015). Tick, Tick, Tick: Time to Manage Canine Tick Infestation. Clinicians Brief, 13 (4), 50-52.
Oxidative modification, inflammation and amyloid in the normal and diabetic cat pancreas
Herndon, A. M., Breshears, M. A. and McFarlane, D. (2014). Oxidative modification, inflammation and amyloid in the normal and diabetic cat pancreas. Journal of Comparative Pathology, 151 (4), 352-362. doi: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2014.06.004
Testicular neoplasia in the retained testicles of an intersex male dog
Herndon, Aaron M., Casal, Margret L. and Jacques, John T. (Scott) (2012). Testicular neoplasia in the retained testicles of an intersex male dog. Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association, 48 (2), 118-124. doi: 10.5326/JAAHA-MS-5696
Buried asparagines determine the dimerization specificities of leucine zipper mutants
Zeng, X, Herndon, AM and Hu, JC (1997). Buried asparagines determine the dimerization specificities of leucine zipper mutants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 94 (8), 3673-3678. doi: 10.1073/pnas.94.8.3673
Prevalence and antimicrobial sensitivity patterns of canine uropathogens in South East Queensland
Mack, Caitlin, Meler, Erika, Herndon, Aaron and Gibson, Justine (2019). Prevalence and antimicrobial sensitivity patterns of canine uropathogens in South East Queensland. Science Week of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 4-6 July 2019.
Canine systemic toxoplasmosis in south east Queensland: a retrospective case series
Anastassiadis, Z., Cook, E., Thompson, A., Herndon, A., McGhie, J. and Meler, E. (2017). Canine systemic toxoplasmosis in south east Queensland: a retrospective case series. Science Week of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 6-8 July 2017.
Efficacy of an herbal topical formulation for the control of pruritus in dogs with atopic dermatitis
(2023–2024) Red Healer
(2019–2021) Research Donation Generic
A Survey of professional and public awareness of parasitic infestation in pet dogs of Queensland
(2019–2020) John & Mary Kibble Trust
Antimicrobial resistance patterns in urinary tract pathogens in dogs in South East Queensland
(2019–2020) Research Donation Generic
(2019–2020) UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
(2019–2020) Research Donation Generic
(2017–2018) Research Donation Generic
(2017) UQ Early Career Researcher
Measurement and Prevention of Obesity in Young Healthy Dogs
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Prevalence of canine urinary bacterial isolates and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in south eastern Queensland
(2023) Doctor Veterinary Clinical Sci — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Transcriptome signature of canine osteosarcoma and role of cytokines in the neoplastic growth
(2021) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.
Capstone Assessment of Final Year Veterinary Students
Graduates of the BVSc are considered "practice ready" for licensure in Australia. In order to ensure that students have met the program learning objectives and can demonstrate the requisite technical skills, clinical skills, and knowledge base the School of Veterinary Science re-designed our assessment format and instituted a new "capstone" examination administered to all students at the end of their clinical year. This project aims to investigate the performance of the assessment, student and staff opinions about the new assessment structure, and impacts of this assessment on the students and curriculum.
Students must have a keen interest in medical education, curriculum design, assessment pedagogy, and skills assessment. This project is designed around assessment of the BVSc, but the outcomes are easily applicable to many other disciples within the health sciences and beyond. There is tremendous opportunity for collaborative and inter-disciplinary translation of this work. Candidates from education, medicine, physiotherapy, dentistry, nursing, or midwifery would all find significant overlap between our respective disciplines and all are welcome to contact our research team.
Depending on the interest of a candidate, aspects of this project may be suitable for a masters-level degree or may be considered suitable for PhD-level research for the right canditate.
Models for Assessment of Clinical Skills
Medical training has evolved over recent decades to include an increased reliance on models and simulation for teaching and learning. The reasons for this are multifacited, but include movement away from live-patient/animal practice, decreased learning stress, and ability to easily revise material independent of patient load. There is a robust body of literature describing the use of models for training and learning. However, the literature describing the use of models for assessment of technical skills is lean at best.
This project aims to evaluate and validate certain models for both the learning and assessment of techinical skills. Our hypothesis is that assessment of some technical skills on models will be equivalent to that of assessing the skills on a live patient. We expect that the benefits on student stress, additional opportunities for assessment, and decreased animal use will result in overall greater satisfaction of student learning and better attainment of program learning objectives.
Models and simulation are commonly employed in the teaching of all health sciences. Candidates from medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, and midwifery (to name a few) are welcome to contact our research group.
Relationship Centred Practice and the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship in the Teaching Hospital
The concept of the Relationship Centred Practice is well-established in the field of the human health-sciences. However this concept is infrequently encountered in the veterinary setting. Beginning in 2021, the veterinary teaching hospital has begun a transition to RCP as our healthcare delivery model. At the same time, several of our internal rotations were merged to create a longitudinal integrated clinical clerkship. This project aims to investigate the outcomes of this shift in teaching delivery and practice organisation on the program outcomes of our Bachelor of Veterinary Science(Hons) students and the veterinary teaching hospital. There are a number of projects that can be considered as a part of this larger body of work. Given the translational nature of this project, we welcome interest from candidates in the fields of education, medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, dentistry, and midwifery.