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Karin Beale, DVM,
Diplomate ACVD
 Dr. Beale received both her Bachelor of Science
degree in biology and her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree
from the University of Florida. After graduation, she was
engaged in private clinical practice in the Washington, D.C.
area before returning to the University of Florida for her
dermatology residency. After residency, she attained
board-certification status, and remained on faculty at the
University for four years before leaving to found Gulf Coast
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Valerie
Fadok, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVD
 Dr. Valerie Fadok received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
degree from Washington State University in 1978, after which she
did an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at the
West Los Angeles Veterinary Medical Group. A residency in
veterinary and comparative dermatology followed at the
University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr.
Fadok became board-certified in veterinary dermatology in 1982.
Dr. Fadok served as an assistant professor and staff
dermatologist for two years at the University of Tennessee
College of Veterinary Medicine, after which she returned to the
University of Florida as assistant professor to work in the
small animal clinic and to develop the subspecialty of large
animal dermatology. These years in the clinic seeing so many
dogs, cats, and horses with chronically inflamed skin inspired
her desire to try to understand inflammation and how it could be
better controlled. Dr. Fadok entered graduate school at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and 4 1/2 years
later earned her PhD in Experimental Pathology; her thesis
covered a novel way in which dying cells in the body were tagged
for elimination and how this elimination controlled
inflammation. She spent the next two years as a Research Fellow
at National Jewish Medical and Research Center refining these
studies, then became Associate Professor at Texas A & M’s
veterinary school, where she continued to treat small and large
animals with skin disease and research how melanomas regressed
in Sinclair swine. In 1995, she returned to National Jewish in
Denver where for 9 years she continued her research on how dying
cells controlled inflammation. In 2004, she found she really
missed her patients and the care of animals with skin disease,
and joined Veterinary Skin and Allergy Specialists at the
Veterinary Referral Center of Colorado. A recent family move to
the great state of Texas has given her the opportunity to work
part time with the talented veterinarians and staff at Gulf
Coast Veterinary Dermatology and Allergy. Dr. Fadok has
lectured internationally, nationally, and locally on subjects
relating to veterinary skin disease, immunology, and
inflammation.
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