Obstructive Urolithiasis in Small Ruminants

Dr. Niehaus is a professor of farm animal surgery at The Ohio State University (OSU). Currently, he serves as the service head of the Hospital for Farm Animals at OSU. He grew up in West Virginia on his family’s beef farm and graduated from West Virginia University in 1999 with a degree in chemical engineering. He attended The Ohio State College of Veterinary Medicine and received his DVM in 2003. Following graduation, he remained at OSU and completed an internship and residency in farm animal surgery, and attained a master's degree in 2007. He has remained at OSU as faculty in the same service since completing his residency, becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (Large Animal) in 2010. He is a member of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, and he is faculty advisor to the OSU chapters of the Food Animal Club, the pre-vet club, and the Christian Veterinary Fellowship. He has received several teaching awards during his time at OSU and has a passion for teaching students to “think like clinicians.”

Dr. Schleining is a board-certified large animal surgeon and clinical educator at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She received her bachelor’s degree in animal science from South Dakota State University and her DVM from Iowa State University. Before completing a large animal surgery residency and master’s program in veterinary clinical science at Iowa State University, she completed an equine internship in Arizona, was an associate veterinarian in rural mixed animal practice in central South Dakota, and was a clinical fellow at Oregon State University. She spent 15 years on the faculty of Iowa State University before joining Texas A&M University in 2018. She is currently a clinical associate professor with interests in veterinary medical education, advancing surgical procedures and knowledge in large animals, and streamlining the schedules of her four children and veterinary classmate and husband, Frank. She’s still working on the streamlining part.