Val Beasley, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ABVT

Professional Experience

2016-Present: Professor of Veterinary, Wildlife, and Ecological Toxicology, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania Sate University, University Park, Pennsylvania (CAS-PSU).

2014-2016: Professor and Head, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, CAS-PSU.

2011-2014: Professor Emeritus of Veterinary, Wildlife, and Ecological Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois (CVM-UIUC).

2002-2011: Assistant Head, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, now, the Department of Comparative Biosciences, CVM-UIUC.

1996-2011: Professor of Veterinary, Wildlife, and Ecological Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Affiliate, Illinois Natural History Survey. UIUC.

1989-1992; 1995-2001: Chairperson, Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, CVM-UIUC.

1989-1996: Associate Professor of Toxicology, CVM-UIUC.

1983-1989: Associate Director and Co-Director of the National Animal Poison Control Center, CVM-UIUC, now the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center.

1983-1989: Assistant Professor of Toxicology, CVM-UIUC.

1974-1978: Owner and President of Old Troy Pike Veterinary Clinic, Dayton, Ohio

1972-1974: Small Animal Clinician, Asbury Park Animal Hospital, Neptune, New Jersey

Teaching Experience

2009-2011: Wildlife and Ecosystem Health, UIUC, Course Organizer and Instructor

2004-2011: Ecotoxicology of the Northern Hemisphere, elective for veterinary and graduate students, UIUC, Course Organizer and Instructor

2005, 2007: Regulatory Pharmacology and Toxicology, elective for veterinary and graduate students, UIUC, Course Organizer

2003, 2005, & 2007: Analytical Toxicology and Pharmacology, graduate course, UIUC, Course Organizer

1997-2003: Poisons in Plants and Plant-Derived Materials, elective for veterinary and graduate students, UIUC, Instructor

1991-1994, 1998, 2000-2010: Envirovet Summer Institute, Founder, Executive Director, Organizer, and Instructor

1985-1995: Advanced Veterinary Toxicology, electives in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program, UIUC, Course Organizer and Instructor.

Honors and Awards

2014: Service Award for Training Veterinarians in Toxicology, American Board of Veterinary Toxicology

2012: Kenneth P. Dubois Award, Midwest Regional Chapter, Society of Toxicology

2011: George C. Poppensiek Visiting Professorship in Global Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University

2009: One Health featured scientist, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

2005: John Gunion Rutherford Memorial Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan

1998: College-Wide All-Round Excellence Award, University of Illinois, College of Veterinary Medicine

1990: Beecham Award for Research Excellence, University of Illinois, College of Veterinary Medicine

Professional Service

2016-2017: National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), Core Planning Group for the 17th National Conference and Global Forum for Science, Policy, and the Environment, entitled, Integrating Environment and Health, Member

2007-2012: National Academies, National Research Council, Veterinary Medicine Workforce, Committee Member

1999-2001: American Veterinary Medical Association, Committee on Environmental Issues, Chairperson

1994-1995: Editorial Board of Natural Toxins

1992: ad hoc AAVCT/American Board of Veterinary Toxicology Joint Committee that established the Veterinary Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology, now the Comparative and Veterinary Specialty Section, Chairperson

1989-1991 & 1996-1998: Board of Scientific Reviewers, American Journal of Veterinary Research

1988: FASEB Summer Research Conference on Trichothecene, Blue-Green Algal, and Marine Toxins: Mechanisms, Detection and Therapy, Co-Chair

1987-1989: American Academy of Veterinary and Comparative Toxicology, President

1987-1989: American Academy of Veterinary and Comparative Toxicology, Vice President and Program Chairperson

1986: American Board of Veterinary Toxicology Examination Committee, Chairman

Selected Publications

Aquirre, A. A., Beasley, V. R., Augspurger, T., Benson, W. H., Whaley, J., and Basu, N., One Health- transdisciplinary opportunities for SETAC leadership in integrating and improving the health of people, animals, and the environment. Environ Toxicol and Chem, 35:2383-2391, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/etc.3557

Uchtmann, N., Herrmann, J., Hahn, N., and Beasley, V.R. Barriers to, Efforts in, and Optimization of Integrated One Health Surveillance: A Review and Synthesis.  EcoHealth 12:368-384 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-015-1022-7.

Hilborn, E. D., and Beasley, V. R. One Health and cyanobacteria in freshwater systems: animals as sentinels for human health risk. Toxins 7:1374-1395, 2015.  DOI: 10.3390.

Rohr, J. R.,  Civitello, D. J., Crumrine, P. W., Halstead, N. T., Miller, A. D., Schotthoefer, A. M., Stenoien, C., Johnson, L. B.,  and Beasley, V. R. Predator diversity, intraguild predation, and indirect effects drive parasite transmission. Proc N Acad Sci USA. 112:3008-3013, 2015, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415971112.

Schwind, J. S., Gilardi, K. V. K., Beasley, V. R., Mazet, J. A. K., and Smith, W. A. Advancing the ‘One Health’ workforce by integrating ecosystem health practice into veterinary medical education: The Envirovet Summer Institute. Health Educ J. 75:170-183, 2015, DOI: 10.1177/0017896915570396.

Mensching, D. A., Slater, M., Scott, J. W., Ferguson, D. C., and Beasley, V. R. The feline thyroid gland: A model for endocrine disruption by polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). J Toxicol Environ Health A 75:201-212, 2012.

Schotthoefer, A. M., Rohr, J. R., Cole, R. A., Koehler, A. V., Johnson, C. M., Johnson, L. B., and Beasley, V. R. Effects of wetland vs. landscape variables on parasite communities of Rana pipiens: links to anthropogenic factors. Ecol Appl 21:1257-1271, 2011.

Schotthoefer, A. M., Cole, R. A., and Beasley, V. R. Parasites of the mink frog (Rana septentrionalis) from Minnesota, USA. Comp Parasitol 76:240-246, 2009.

Rohr, J. R., Schotthoefer, A. M., Raffel, T. R., Carrick, H. J., Halstead, N., Hoverman, J. T., Johnson, C. M., Johnson, L. B., Lieske, C., Piwoni, M. D., Schoff, P. K., and Beasley, V. R. Agrochemicals increase trematode infections in a declining amphibian species. Nature 455(7217):1235-1239, 2008.

Schotthoefer, A. M., Labak, K. M., and Beasley, V. R. Ribeiroia ondatrae cercariae are consumed by aquatic invertebrate predators. J Parasitol 93(5):1240-1243, 2007.

Allender, M. C.; Mitchell, M. A., Phillips, C. A.; Gruszynski K., Beasley, V. R. Hematology, plasma biochemistry, and antibodies to select viruses in wild-caught Eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus) from Illinois. J Wildlife Dis 42(1):107-114, 2006.

Beasley, V. R., Bruno, S. J., Burner, J. S., Choi, B. W., Rinehart, K. L., Koritz, G. D., and Levengood, J. M. Fate of tritiated didemnin B in mice: excretion and tissue concentrations after an intraperitoneal dose. Biopharm Drug Dispos 26:341-351, 2005.

Beasley, V. R., Faeh, S. A., Wikoff, B., Eisold, J., Nichols, D., Cole, R., Schotthoefer, A. M., Staehle, C., Greenwell, M., and Brown, L. E. Risk factors and the decline of the northern cricket frog, Acris crepitans: evidence for involvement of herbicides, parasitism, and habitat modifications. Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. Lannoo, M. (Ed.) pp. 75-86, 2005. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

Reeder, A.L., Ruiz, M.O., Pessier, A., Brown, L. E., Levengood, J. M., Phillips, C. A., Wheeler M. B., Warner, R.E., and Beasley, V. R. Intersexuality and the cricket frog decline: Historic and geographic trends. Environ Health Persp 113:261-265, 2005.

Schoff, P. K., Johnson, C. M., Schotthoefer, A. M., Murphy, J.E., Lieske C., Cole, R. A., Johnson, L. B., and Beasley, V. R. Prevalence of malformed frogs from the north-central United States: estimations based on collections from randomly selected sites. J Wildlife Dis 39:510-521, 2003.

Schotthoefer, A. M., Cole, R. A., and Beasley, V. R.  Relationship of tadpole stage to location of echinostome cercariae encystment and the consequences for tadpole survival.  J. Parasitol 89:475-482, 2003.

Woshner, V.M., O’Hara, T. M., Eurell, J. A., Wallig, M. A., Bratton, G. R., Suydam, R. S., and Beasley, V. R.  Distribution of inorganic mercury in liver and kidney of beluga and bowhead whales through autometallographic development of light microscopic tissue sections.  Toxicol Pathol 30:209-215, 2002. 

Murphy, J. E., Beckmen, K. B., Johnson, J. K., Cope, R. B., Lawmaster, T., and Beasley, V. R.  Toxic and feeding deterrent effects of native aquatic macrophytes on exotic carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella).  Ecotoxicology 11:243-254, 2002. 

Woshner, V.M., O'Hara, T.M., Bratton, G.R., Suydam, R.S. and Beasley, V. R. Concentrations and interactions of selected essential and non-essential elements in bowhead and beluga whales of arctic Alaska. J Wildlife Dis 34:693-710, 2001.

Woshner, V.M., O'Hara, T.M., Bratton, G.R. and Beasley, V. R. Concentrations and interactions of selected essential and non-essential elements in ringed seals and polar bears of arctic Alaska. J Wildlife Dis 37:711-721, 2001.

Beasley, V. R., Lovell, R. A., Holmes, K. R., Walcott, H. E., Schaeffer, D. J., Hoffmann, W. E., and Carmichael, W. W.  Microcystin-LR decreases hepatic and renal perfusion, and causes circulatory shock, severe hypoglycemia, and terminal hyperkalemia in intravascularly-dosed swine. J Toxicol Environ Health A 61:281-303, 2000. 

Diana, S.G., Resetarits, Jr., W.J., Schaeffer, D.J., Beckmen, K.B., and Beasley, V. R.  Effects of atrazine on amphibian growth and survival in artificial aquatic communities.  Environ Toxicol Chem 19:2961-2967, 2000.

Reeder, A. L., Foley, G. L., Nichols, D. K., Hansen, L. G., Wikoff, B., Faeh, S., Eisold, J., Wheeler, M. B., Warner, R., Murphy, J. E., and Beasley, V. R.  Forms and prevalence of intersexuality, and effects of environmental contaminants on sexuality in cricket frogs (Acris crepitans). Environ Health Persp 106:261-266, 1998.