Maggie Highland

Dr. Highland joined the WVDL on June 1, 2022, to serve as the Pathology and Professional Veterinary Services Section Head and as a Diagnostic Pathologist. Dr. Highland received both her B.S. (School of Pharmacy, 1997) and DVM (2006) from UW-Madison.  She completed 2 years of anatomic pathology residency training at the University of California-Davis (2006-2008) then returned to Wisconsin to complete 2 additional years of residency training as the Milwaukee County Zoo and Wildlife Anatomic Pathology Fellow (2008-2010).  Following her anatomic pathology residency training, Dr. Highland completed a Ph.D. in Immunology and Infectious Disease as a USDA Ph.D. trainee within the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology within the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University (2010-2016), then stayed in Pullman, WA for 3 years serving as a USDA-ARS Veterinary Researcher, specializing in small ruminant infectious diseases (2016-2019).

Prior to arriving back to her home state of Wisconsin in June 2022, Dr. Highland served as a diagnostician and necropsy laboratory section head within the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.  She maintains a strong interest in small ruminant health and disease processes, particularly infectious disease processes and immunology.