Louis J. DeTolla

Louis James DeTolla, Jr., Ph.D., V.M.D., M.S., D.A.C.L.A.M. is a veterinarian with a PhD in Pathology. Dr. DeTolla has more than 35 years of experience in laboratory animal and veterinary medicine. He serves as the Chief of Veterinary Resources for the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He is Director and Professor of Comparative Medicine and Professor in the Departments of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Pathology, and Epidemiology, and Public Health in the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. He is also a member of the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center. In addition, he is the Veterinary Medical Officer for the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Fellow with the National Aquarium, and Adjunct Research Scientist for the Mystic Aquarium Institute for Exploration. He has also served as Chief Attending Veterinarian for the Gerontology Research Center at the National Institute on Aging, Research Veterinarian and Co-Director of Laboratory Animal Research at Merck Sharp and Dohme Laboratories, Research Veterinarian at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and Research Veterinarian at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Institute for Cancer Research. Dr. DeTolla received a A.B. degree from Temple University in 1970, an M.S. in microbiology from Rutgers University in 1974, and a Ph.D. in pathology and immunology, also from Rutgers, in 1978. In 1982, he received his V.M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, a USDA-accredited veterinarian and licensed to practice in Maryland and Pennsylvania.