Rachel Clarkin-Breslin, VMD, DACVECC
Dr. Rachel Clarkin-Breslin is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. She earned her veterinary degree from the University of Pennsylvania before completing a small animal rotating internship at the University of Georgia. She then returned to PennVet for an emergency and critical care residency, where she continued her academic and clinical work. Her research interests include hemostasis, viscoelastic testing, and microcirculation.
Clarkin-Breslin, RC, Chalifoux, NV, Buriko, Y Standard tests of haemostasis do not predict elevated thromboelastographic maximum amplitude, an index of hypercoagulability, in sick dogs Journal Of Small Animal Practice 65: 783-788, 2024.
Clarkin-Breslin, RC, Brainard, BM Point-of-care and traditional erythrocyte sedimentation rate, point-of-care rheometry, and cell-free DNA concentration in dogs with or without systemic inflammation Journal Of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 36: 177-186, 2024.
Buriko, Y, Chalifoux, NV, Clarkin-Breslin, R, Silverstein, DC Comparison of a viscoelastic point-of-care coagulation monitor with thromboelastography in sick dogs with hemostatic abnormalities Veterinary Clinical Pathology 52: 217-227, 2023.
Disorders of hemostasis, immunothrombosis, viscoelastic testing, microcirculation
University of Georgia (2020 to 2021)
Small Animal Rotating Internship
University of Pennsylvania (2021 to 2024)
Residency, Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care
Clinical Specialties:
Small animal ICU as well as in spontaneous disease; immunothrombosis in viral and bacterial pneumonia
Hospital & Services:
Education:
VMD, University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2020; BA (Biology, Spanish), Vassar College, Class of 2013
Board Certification:
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care
Contact:
University of Pennsylvania
School of Veterinary Medicine
3800 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104