Introduction to Dr. Andrew Thiel, Mammalian Pathologist

Dr. Thiel joined us in early August and has been a welcome addition to our mammalian pathology services.

Dr. Andrew Thiel is a native Pennsylvanian, hailing from Hermitage, a city in Mercer County in far western PA. He graduated from Lehigh University and went on to earn his DVM from the University of Florida. He spent some time in small animal practice before beginning a pathology residency at the University of Illinois Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in 2020. For the last 10 months he has been working as a contract anatomic pathologist and instructor at Illinois, averaging almost 5 cases per day - including food animal, equine, companion animal, and exotics cases. At the same time, he averaged more than 70 surgical biopsy cases per week! His references speak very highly of him as a knowledgeable, even-keeled, and reliable pathologist, who is no stranger to a heavy and busy caseload. In his free time, Dr. Thiel enjoys fly fishing, carving wooden wands, playing the saxophone, and smoking meat. (We hope to make extensive use of one or more of those talents for our lab lunches!) I very much look forward to having Dr. Thiel join our excellent team of faculty and staff at the ADL and providing you with mammalian diagnostic pathology services alongside Dr. Dane Rahoi.