EDUCATION

1985-1988 Residency, Veterinary Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
1981 D.V.M., with high honor, Auburn University School of Veterinary Medicine
1976 B.S., Biology, summa cum laude, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN

BOARD CERTIFICATION

1988 Veterinary Pathologist, The American College of Veterinary Pathologists

HONORS

Defense Meritorious Service Medal, 1997
Joint Services Commendation Medal, 1990
Army Meritorious Service Medal, 1985
Army Achievement Medal, 1984
Army Commendation Medal, 1982
Member of Phi Zeta, National Veterinary Honor Society, 1981
Member of Phi Kappa Phi, National Collegiate Honor Society, 1978
Awarded Health Professions Scholarship in Veterinary Medicine by the US Army, 1978
Received "Honors" on the Biology Comprehensive Exam at the University of the South, 1976
Member of Phi Beta Kappa, 1976
Member of the Order of Gownsmen, Student Honor Society of the University of the South, 1974
Member of Phi Eta Sigma, National Honor Society for college freshmen, 1973

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Veterinary Medical Association
American College of Veterinary Pathologists
Wildlife Disease Association
International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1992 to Present: Chief, Division of Veterinary Pathology Department of Veterinary Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
 

Responsible for all aspects of the operation of the Division which includes 5 other board certified veterinary pathologist staff members and 11 residents.

Missions of the Division are consultation, education, and research.

Consultation includes diagnostic pathology service for military-owned animals worldwide, cases submitted by military and civilian pathologists for second opinions and/or additional studies, and pathology support of other government agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Personally responsible for coordinating the Division's extensive involvement in marine mammal pathology.

Education comprises a 3 year residency program in veterinary pathology for 9 to 12 veterinarians, 4 annual short courses, and production of a weekly international histopathology slide seminar.

Research activities include a wide variety of studies involving animal disease and animal models of human disease.

Member, Unusual Marine Mammal Mortality Event Working Group. Congressionally mandated group that advises the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on appropriate actions in response to unusual marine mammal mortality events (1990-1998).

Consultant, Veterinary Division, Marshfield Laboratory, Marshfield, Wisconsin.

Provides diagnostic histopathology service to veterinary clinicians on a part-time basis.

1988-1992 Chief, Anatomic Pathology Branch, Division of Veterinary Pathology, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Major, U. S. Army.
 

Directly responsible for the consultation mission of the Division (see description of mission above)

1985-1988 Resident in Veterinary Pathology, AFIP, Captain, U.S. Army
 

Responsible for gross and microscopic evaluation of specimens from various animal species.

Served as prosector at the National Zoological Park, Washington, DC.
 

1982-1985 Chief, Okinawa Branch, U.S. Army Veterinary Detachment, Japan, Captain, U.S. Army
 

Veterinarian in charge of the busiest U.S. military veterinary clinic in the world. An excellent clinical experience.

1981-1982 Veterinary Officer, Ft. Sam Houston Veterinary Treatment Facility, San Antonio, TX, Captain, U.S. Army
 

Performed clinical (equine and small animal) and public health functions.

PUBLICATIONS

Jackson RK, Longhofer S, Lipscomb TP: Be alert for Babesia gibsoni infections. J Am Vet Med Assoc 186: 782, 1985.

Lipscomb TP, Dubey JP, Pletcher JM, Altman NH: Intrahepatic biliary coccidiosis in a dog. Vet Pathol 26: 343-345, 1989.

Dubey JP, Speer CA, Munday BL, Lipscomb TP: Ovine sporozoan encephalomyelitis linked to Sarcocystis infection. Vet Parasitol 34: 159-163, 1989.

Harris RK, Moeller RB, Lipscomb TP, Haebler RJ, Tuomi PA, McCormick CR, DeGange AR, Mulcahy D, Williams TD, Pletcher JM:

Identification of a herpes-like virus in sea otters during rehabilitation after the T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill. Bayha K and Kormendy J eds, Sea otter symposium: Proceedings of a symposium to evaluate the response effort on behalf of sea otters after the T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill into Prince William Sound, Anchorage, AK, 1990.

Haebler RJ, Harris RK, Pletcher JM, Moeller RM, Lipscomb TP, Bates M, Armitstead C: Pathological examination and collection of toxicological samples from sea otters. Bayha K and Kormendy J eds, Sea otter symposium: Proceedings of a symposium to evaluate the response effort on behalf of sea otters after the T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill into Prince Williams Sound, Anchorage, AK, 1990.

Dubey JP, Lindsay DS, Lipscomb TP: Neosporosis in cats. Vet Pathol 27: 335-339, 1990.

Dubey JP, Cosenza SF, Lipscomb TP et al: Acute sarcocystosis-like disease in a dog. J Am Vet Med 198: 439-443, 1991.

Dubey JP, Slife LN, Speer CA, Lipscomb TP, Topper MJ: Fatal cutaneous and visceral infection in a Rottweiler dog associated with a Sarcocystis-like protozoan. J Vet Diag Invest, 3: 72-75, 1991.

Davis KJ, Hubbard GB, Soike KF, Butler TM, Lipscomb TP: Fatal necrotizing adenoviral hepatitis in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) with disseminated cytomegalovirus infection. Vet Pathol 29:547-549, 1992.

Lipscomb TP, Harris RK, Moeller RB, Pletcher JM, Haebler RJ, Ballachey BE: Histopathologic lesions in sea otters exposed to crude oil. Vet Pathol 30:1-11, 1993.

Lipscomb TP, Schulman FY, Moffett D, Kennedy S: Morbilliviral disease in Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the 1987-1988 epizootic. J Wildl Dis 30:567-571, 1994.

Lipscomb TP, Kennedy S, Moffett D, Ford BK: Morbilliviral disease in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from the Gulf of Mexico. J Wildl Dis 30:572-576, 1994.

Lipscomb TP, Harris RK, Rebar AH, Ballachey BE, Haebler RJ: Pathology of sea otters. In Marine Mammals and the Exxon Valdez. Loughlin TR ed, Academic Press, San Diego, 1994.

Lipscomb, TP: A summary of morbilliviral epizootics of aquatic mammals. Proceedings of the forty-fifth annual meeting of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, 244-246, 1994.

Rebar AH, Lipscomb TP, Harris RK, Ballachey BE: Clinical andclinical laboratory correlates in sea otters dying acutely in rehabilitation centers following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Vet Pathol 32:346-350, 1995.

Krafft A, Lichy JH, Lipscomb TP, Klaunberg BA, Kennedy S, Taubenberger JK: Postmortem diagnosis of morbillivirus infection in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico epizootics by a polymerase chain reaction-based assay. J Wildl Dis 31:410-415, 1995.

Lipscomb TP: Pathologic findings in dolphins known to have died from underwater entrapment. In Diagnosis of by-catch in cetaceans: Proceedings of the second European Cetacean Society workshop on cetacean pathology, T. Kuiken, Ed, Montpellier, France, 1996.

Lipscomb TP, Kennedy S, Moffett D, Krafft A, Klaunberg BA, Lichy JH, Regan GT, Worthy GAJ, Taubenberger JK: Morbilliviral epizootic in bottlenose dolphins of the Gulf of Mexico. J Vet Diag Invest 8:283-290, 1996.

Dubey JP, Mattix ME, Lipscomb TP: Lesions of neonatally induced toxoplasmosis in cats. Vet Pathol 33:290-295, 1996.

Taubenberger JK, Tsai M, Krafft AE, Lichy JH, Reid AH, Schulman FY, Lipscomb TP: Two morbilliviruses implicated in bottlenose dolphin epizootics. J Emerg Infect Dis 2:213-216, 1996.

Schulman FY, Lipscomb TP, Moffett D, Krafft AE, Lichy JH, Tsai MM, Taubenberger JK, Kennedy S: Histologic, immunohistochemical, and polymerase chain reaction studies of bottlenose dolphins from the 1987-1988 United States Atlantic coast epizootic. Vet Pathol 34:288-295, 1997.

Steele KE, Visvesvera GS, Bradley GA, Lipscomb TP, Gardiner CH: Amebiasis in a dog with gastric ulcers and adenocarcinoma. J Vet Diagn Invest 9:91-93, 1997.

Briscoe CM, Lipscomb TP, McKinney L: Pulmonary metastasis of a feline vaccination-site fibrosarcoma. J Vet Diagn Invest 10:79-82, 1998.

Reimer DC, Lipscomb TP: Malignant seminoma with metastasis and herpesvirus infection in a free-living sea otter (Enhydra lutris). J Zoo Wild Med 29:35-39, 1998.

Reidarson TH, McBain J, House C, King DP, Stott JL, Krafft A, Taubenberger JK, Heyning J, Lipscomb TP: Morbillivirus infection in stranded common dolphins from the Pacific Ocean. J Wildl Dis 34:771-776, 1998.

Stevens E, Lipscomb TP, Gulland FMD: An additional case of leptospirosis in a harbor seal. J Wildl Dis 35:150, 1999.

Sweeney JC, Reddy ML, Lipscomb TP, Bjorneby JM, Ridgway SH: Handbook of Cetacean Cytology, Dolphin Quest, 1999.

Martineau D, Lair S, De Guise S, Lipscomb TP, Beland P: Cancer in beluga whales from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada: A potential biomarker of environmental contamination. Special issue 1. J Cetacean Res Manage 249-265, 1999.

Schulman FY, Lipscomb TP: Ciliate-associated dermatitis in dolphins that died during the 1987-1988 Atlantic bottlenose dolphin morbilliviral epizootic. Vet Pathol 36:171-174, 1999.

Watrous BJ, Lipscomb TP, Heidel JR, Normal LM: Malignant Peripheral nerve sheath tumor in a cat. Vet Radiol Ultrasound 40:638-640, 1999.

Scholin CA, Gulland F, Doucette GJ, Benson S, Busman M, Chavez P, Cordaro J, DeLong R, De Vogelaere A, Harvey J, Haulena M, Lefebvre K, Lipscomb T, Loscutoff S, Lowenstine LJ, Marin R, Miller PE, McLellan WA, Moeller PDR, Powell CL, Rowles T, Silvagni P, Silver M, Spraker T, Trainer V, Van Dolah FM: Mortality of sea lions along the central California coast linked to a toxic diatom bloom. Nature 403:80-84, 2000.

Taubenberger JK, Tsai MM, Atkin TJ, Fanning TG, Krafft AE, Moeller RB, Kodsi SE, Mense MG, Lipscomb TP: Molecular genetic evidence of a novel morbillivirus in a long-finned pilot whale (Globicephalus melas). Emerg Infect Dis 6:42-45, 2000.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

"Pathology of the Laboratory Rabbit", Pathology of Laboratory Animals Course, Bethesda, MD, 1987, 1989 and 1990.

"Intrahepatic Biliary Coccidiosis in a Dog", American College of Veterinary Pathologists Annual Meeting, Diagnostic Pathology Specialty Group, Monterey, CA, 1987.

"Impact of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on Sea Otters in Prince William Sound, Alaska," National Zoological Park Symposium, 1989.

"Pathology of Selected Diseases of Marine Mammals", Aquamed Course, Texas A and M University, Galveston, TX, 1990.

"Histologic Lesions Associated with Acute Crude Oil Exposure In Sea Otters", American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1991.

"Infectious Diseases of Dolphins", Environmental Protection Agency Symposium on Dolphin Mortality, Pensacola, FL, 1992.

"Gross and Histologic Lesions in Sea Otters Exposed to Crude Oil by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill", Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Symposium, Anchorage, AK, 1993.

"Morbillivirus Infection in Bottlenose Dolphins", Society for Marine Mammalogy, Galveston, TX, 1993

"Pathologic Findings in Dolphins Known to have Died from Underwater Entrapment", European Cetacean Society, Montpellier, France, 1994

"An Outbreak of Morbillivirus-induced Disease in Bottlenose Dolphins of the Gulf of Mexico", European Cetacean Society, Montpellier, France, 1994

"Gross and Histologic Lesions in Sea Otters Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill", Wildlife Pathology Course, C. L. Davis Foundation, Blacksburg, VA, 1994

"Infectious Diseases of Marine Mammals", Wildlife Pathology Course, C. L. Davis Foundation, Blacksburg, VA, 1994

"Morbilliviral Epizootic in Bottlenose Dolphins of the Gulf of Mexico Confirmed by Polymerase Chain Reaction Test", Wildlife Disease Association, Monterey, CA, 1994

"A Summary of Morbilliviral Epizootics of Aquatic Mammals" American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Montreal, Canada, 1994

"Morbilliviral Diseases of Aquatic Mammals, an Overview and Update" International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine, Mystic, CT, 1995

"Role of the AFIP in Marine Mammal Pathology", National Marine Fisheries Service Conference of Stranding Network Coordinators, Silver Spring, MD, 1995 and Chesapeake Bay Region Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Stranding Network Workshop, Oxford, MD, 1995

"Respiratory Pathology of Selected Diseases of Marine Mammals", American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Seattle, WA, 1996

"Metastatic carcinoma of California sea lions: evidence of genital origin and association with gamma herpesvirus infection", American College of Veterinary Pathologists, St. Louis, MO 1998