Assistant Professor, Equine Medicine
North Carolina State University
Dr. Breanna Sheahan is an equine internal medicine clinician and assistant professor at NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Sheahan obtained her veterinary degree from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, followed by an equine internship at University of Missouri, and an equine-focused large animal medicine residency at University of Illinois. She moved to North Carolina to pursue a PhD focused on intestinal stem cell biology, using mice as a model organism. After completion of the PhD, Dr. Sheahan worked as a post-doctoral associate at Duke University, under the direction of a human gastroenterologist. Dr. Sheahan's current research focus is applying organoid technologies to studying equine gastrointestinal disease, particularly colitis.
