Professor and Dean
College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dean Constable’s research spans multiple species and disciplines, from diseases of cattle to biostatistics, veterinary education, and the cardiovascular response to endurance training in dogs. He holds board certification in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Nutrition. He has published more than 270 peer-reviewed articles and 50 book chapters and is lead author of Veterinary Medicine: A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Pigs, and Goats, now in its eleventh edition. His mentorship includes serving as major advisor for eight PhD students and teaching dozens of residents, graduate students, and visiting scholars as well as thousands of veterinary students.
Notable awards recognizing Dean Constable include the Kirk Award for Professional Excellence from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, the Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Docteur Honoris Causa from the Université de Liège.
After completing his veterinary degree at the University of Melbourne in his native Australia, Dean Constable practiced in Australia and England. Then he went to The Ohio State University for an internship and residency in food animal medicine and surgery as well as master’s and PhD degrees in cardiovascular physiology. He was recruited to the University of Illinois, where he spent 13 years on the veterinary clinical medicine faculty. From 2006 to 2013 he served as head of the veterinary clinical sciences department at Purdue University, returning to Illinois as dean in 2014.
