Jeffrey P. Oswald, DVM, Diplomate, ACLAM

Biography

Jeff Oswald, DVM, is the senior director of the Comparative Research Center (CRC). He also holds an assistant professor faculty position in the Department of Biochemistry. He has been at Rush since 1998 and in the position of senior director of the CRC since 2004. The CRC provides daily care for Rush animal research subjects and administers the functions of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and the Institutional Biosafety Committee. Oswald received his undergraduate degree in biological sciences from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill. in 1991. He received his DVM from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1995. He completed a postdoctoral Laboratory Animal Medicine Training Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago in June of 1998 and passed the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine specialty board exam in June of 1999. He is a member of several veterinary professional organizations and has published articles in the field of laboratory animal medicine.

As the institutional attending veterinarian, his research interests include but are not limited to various animal models of human orthopedic disease. Recent studies conducted at Rush show that osteogenic protein–1 and other bone morphogenic proteins may enhance intervertebral disc repair in an induced disc injury rabbit model. In addition, tissue engineered cartilage matrix has shown promise as graft material in induced swine models of articular cartilage defects. Compounds such as tricalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate and other novel bone void filler compounds have been shown to promote cancellous bone growth in induced canine models of bony defects. Identification of disease-associated trait loci in proteoglycan- and collagen-induced mouse models of arthritis is also ongoing.

Publications

Selected publications

Glant, T.T., Adarichev, V.A., Nesterovitch, A.B., Szanto, S., Oswald, J.P., Jacobs, J.J., Firneisz, G., Zhang, J., Finnegan, A., Mikecz, K.: Disease-associated qualitative and quantitative trait loci in proteoglycan-induced arthritis and collagen-induced arthritis. (2003) Am J Med Sci, (in press).

Wardrip, C.L., Artwohl, J.E., Oswald, J.P. and Bennett, B.T., Verification of bacterial killing effects of cage wash time and temperature combinations using standard penicylinder methods. (2000), Contemp. Topics in Lab. An. Sci. 39(4):9-12.

Oswald, J.P., Klug, A. and Park, T.J., Interaural intensity difference processing in auditory midbrain neurons: effects of a transient early inhibitory input. (1999), J. Neuroscience 19(3):1149-1163.Park, T.J., Klug, A., Oswald, J.P. and Grothe, B., A novel circuit in the bat’s midbrain recruits neurons into sound localization processing. (1998), Naturwissenschaften 85:176-179.

Abstracts and presentations

Oswald, J.P., Fortman, J.D. and Bennett, B.T., Management of a bat colony. 48th AALAS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 16-20, 1997.

Bauer, E.E., Klug, A., Oswald, J.P. and Park, T.J., Sensitivity to interaural intensity differences in the inferior colliculus: effects of absolute intensity. 1997 Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 25-30, 1997.

Oswald, J.P., Park, T.J. and Bennett, B.T., The neurophysiology of sounds localization in the midbrain of the Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida braziliensis mexicana). 24th Annual Chicago-Southern Wisconsin AALAS Interbranch Meeting, Rolling Meadows, IL, Sept. 25-26, 1997.

Gibbons, K.A., Oswald, J.P. and Hewett, T.H., Leak testing gas anesthetic machines. 24th Annual Chicago-Southern Wisconsin AALAS Interbranch Meeting, Rolling Meadows, IL, Sept. 25-26, 1997.

Oswald, J.P. and Hewett, T.H., Trouble shooting gas anesthetic machines. Chicago Branch AALAS Spring Program, Brookfield, IL, May 13, 1997.

Oswald, J.P., Park, T.J., Xun, Z., Grothe, B. and Weisleder, P., Hierarchical processing along the interaural intensity difference pathway: Binaural properties change with stimulus type in the IC but not in the LSO. 20th Annual Mid-winter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL, February 1-6, 1997.

Oswald, J.P., Fortman, J.D. and Bennett, B.T., The effect of non-nutritive environmental enrichment devices on the stereotypic behavior of two Macaca arctoides. 23rd Annual Chicago-Southern Wisconsin AALAS Interbranch Meeting, Madison, WI, Sept. 12-13, 1996.

Oswald, J.P., Fortman, J.D. and Bennett, B.T., A management system for single cage housing of a baboon colony. 133rd Annual AVMA Convention, Louisville, KY, July 20-24, 1996.

Oswald, J.P. and Fortman, J.D., Rabies: Management of a bat colony. Chicago Branch AALAS Spring Program, Brookfield, IL, May 14, 1996.

Artwohl, J.E., Oswald, J.P. and Halliday, L.C., Blood collection techniques in laboratory animals workshop. 22nd Annual Chicago-Southern Wisconsin AALAS Interbranch Meeting, Rolling Meadows, IL, Sept. 11-12, 1995.

Oswald, J.P., Artwohl, J.E., Wardrip, C.L. and Bennett, B.T., Thermal kill of Escherichia coli, Shigella flexneri and Mycobacterium tuberculosis at various times and temperatures. 21st Annual Chicago-Southern Wisconsin AALAS Interbranch Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, Sept. 10-11, 1994.

Education