Jennifer Thomas, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor and
Acting Chairperson
G-350 Veterinary Medical Center
East Lansing MI 48823
Phone: (517) 353-1633
E-mail: thomas@dcpah.msu.edu
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
PhD, Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1991
DVM, Michigan State University, 1981
BS, Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, 1980
SERVICE RESPONSIBILITIES
Section Chief, Clinical Pathology Laboratory, Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hemostasis and spontaneous hemostatic disorders
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Thomas JS, Green RA. Clotting times and antithrombin III activity in cats with spontaneous diseases:85 cases (1984-1994). J Am Vet Med Assoc 230:1290-1295, 1998.
Thomas JS, Blue-McLendon A. The effects of in vitro incubation with acetylsalicylic acid on
thrombocyte aggregation in whole blood from normal ostriches. Comp Haematol Int 8:137-141, 1998.
Modiano JF, Smith R, Wojcieszyn J, Thomas JS, et al. The use of cytochemistry, immunophenotyping, flow cytometry and in vitro differentiation to determine the ontogeny of a canine monoblastic leukemia. Vet Clin Path 27:40-49, 1998.
Thomas JS, Rogers KS. Platelet aggregation and ATP secretion in dogs with untreated multicentric lymphoma. J Vet Intern Med 13:319-322 1999.
LeGrange SN, Fossum TW, Lemire T, Storts RW, Thomas JS. Thrombosis of the caudal vena cava
presenting as an unusual cause of an abdominal mass in a dog. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 36: 143-151, 2000.
Thomas JS. Advances in the diagnosis and therapeutic management of platelet disorders. Vet
Forum 17: 38-48, 2000.
Johnson MC, Thomas JS, Barton C, Nasarre C, Lewis B. What's your diagnosis? Popliteal lymph
node aspirate from a dog with a maxillary mass. Vet Clin Pathol 29:13-15, 2000.
Spangler EA, Rogers KS, Thomas JS, et al. Telomerase enzyme activity as a diagnostic tool to distinguish effusions of malignant and benign origins. J Vet Intern Med 14:146-150, 2000.
Jones JS, Thomas JS, Bahr A, Phalen DN. Presumed immune-mediated anemia in a blue-crowned
conure (Aratinga acutcaudata). J Avian Med Surg 16:223-229, 2002.
Smith R, Thomas JS. Determination of reticulated platelets in healthy dogs and in non-thrombocytopenic dogs with clinical disease. Vet Clin Pathol 31:223-229, 2002.
Fernandes PJ, Modiano JF, Wojcieszyn J, Thomas JS, et al. Use of the Cell-Dyn 3500 to predict leukemic cell lineage in peripheral blood of dogs and cats. Vet Clin Pathol 31:167-182, 2002.
Narurkar NS, Thomas J, Phalen D. Heinz-body hemolytic anemia associated with ingestion of methylene blue in a river otter. J Am Vet Med Assoc 220:363-366, 2002.
Thomas JS. Case study of the month: Otitis externa. NAVC Clinician’s Brief, July, 33-35, 2004.
Thomas JS. Case study of the month: Blastomycosis in a Dog. NAVC Clinician’s Brief, January, 11-13, 2004.
FitzgeraldSD, deMarr TWJ, Thomas JS, and Berry DE. Pathologic limb fracture attributed to mycobacterial infection in a marine toad, Bufo marinus, with systemic mycobacteriosis and chromomycosis. J. Herpetol Med Surg 14: 19-23, 2004.
Thomas JS. Case study of the month: steroid responsive meningitis-arteritis. NAVC Clinician’s Brief, November, 61-64, 2005.
Patterson JS, Stickle JE, Thomas JS, and Scott MA. An integrative and case-based approach to the teaching of general pathology and systemic pathology. J Vet Med Educ 34: 409-415, 2007.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Thomas JS. Overview of Plasma Proteins. Schalm’s Veterinary Hematology, Fifth Edition.
Feldman, Zinkl, and Jain (eds). Lipincott, Williams, & Wilkins, 2000.
Thomas JS. Protein Electrophoresis. Schalm’s Veterinary Hematology, Fifth Edition. Feldman,
Zinkl, and Jain (eds). Lipincott, Williams, & Wilkins, 2000.
Thomas JS. Clotting factor deficiencies. Five Minute Veterinary Consult: Equine. Brown and
Bertone, (eds), Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
Thomas JS. Bilirubin: high. Five Minute Veterinary Consult: Equine. Brown and Bertone, (eds). Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
Thomas JS. Disorders of Lymph Nodes and Lymphatics. Handbook of Small Animal Practice, Fourth Edition. Morgan, Bright, Swartout (eds), Saunders, 2003.
Tvedten H, Thomas JS. General Laboratory Concepts. Small Animal Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods. 4th ed. Willard and Tvedten (eds). W.B Saunders, 2004. pp 1-13.
Thomas JS. Introduction to Serum Chemistries: Artifacts in Biochemical Determinations. Small Animal Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods. 4th ed. Willard and Tvedten (eds). W.B Saunders, 2004. pp 113-116.
Thomas JS. Platelet Disorders and vonWillebrand Disease. Handbook of Small Animal Practice, 5th Edition. Morgan (ed). Saunders Elsevier, 2008.
Thomas JS. Disorders of Lymph Nodes and Lymphatics. Handbook of Small Animal Practice, 5th Edition. Morgan (ed). Saunders Elsevier, 2008.
