Bettina Wagner, DVM, DrMedVet, has been appointed associate dean for research and graduate education at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, in Ithaca, New York.

She will serve a five year term beginning Sept. 1. Joel Baines, VMD, PhD, who currently holds the position, will become the dean of Louisiana State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine effective Sept. 1.

”I’m looking forward to my new responsibilities,” said Wagner. “It is an important position and an excellent opportunity to promote research and graduate education at the college.”

Wagner received her DVM in 1990 and her DrMedVet degree in veterinary immunology in 1993 from the School of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover, Germany, and completed a postdoctoral position in 1994 studying the isolation and characterization of IGHC genes in the horse. At the College’s Baker Institute for Animal Health she served as a visiting professor from 2002 to 2004 and as a senior research associate from 2004 to 2006. In 2010 she joined the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences as assistant professor of immunology and became an associate professor in 2010