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Suzanne Santamaria

Suzanne L. Santamaria, DVM

MS Candidate, Veterinary Medical Informatics
Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Jeff R. Wilcke
Advisory Committee: Drs. Julie M. Green, Loren P. Rees and Kurt L. Zimmerman

e-mail: slsantamaria@vt.edu


Education

2001 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
1997 Bachelor of Science, Animal Science
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Research Interests

  • Veterinary medical informatics
  • Standardized medical terminologies (SNOMED-CT ®, LOINC, HL7, etc.)
  • Electronic medical records and animal information systems
  • Electronic veterinary drug labels (Structured Product Label - SPL)
  • Integrating common animal groupings with the Linnaean classification system

Professional Experience

2006-present Veterinary Medical Terminologist
VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2004-2005 Veterinary Medical Officer
USDA-APHIS-Veterinary Services, SC
2003-2004 Instructor of Veterinary Technology
Front Range Community College, CO
2001-2003 Veterinary Practitioner
Mixed and small animal private practices and humane society, IN and FL

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Veterinary Informatics
    • Program committee for Talbot Symposium on Informatics
  • American Veterinary Medical Association
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Bio-Medical Veterinary Sciences Graduate Student Association
  • Veterinary Medical License: FL

Posters

  • Santamaria, S.L., Green, J.M., Wilcke, J.R. Use of CmapsTools to Align SNOMED-CT® with an Authoritative Taxonomic Resource (ITIS). 20th Annual Research Symposium of the VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, Virginia. Poster Presentation. November 21, 2008.