Comparative Medicine Branch

Randy Elkins, D.V.M., ACLAM

Associate Director for Laboratory Animal Resources
Animal Program Director, Comparative Medicine Branch

Dr. Elkins obtained his D.V.M. degree from the University of Missouri, College of Veterinary Medicine in 1974. He then completed a one-year internship in large animal surgery at the University of California, School of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. Following several years of clinical practice in California, he completed a residency in comparative pathology at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Ft. Detrick, MD. He joined the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases (LID), Immunodeficiency Viruses Section, as a senior staff laboratory animal veterinarian in 1992, and was promoted to head of the Experimental Primate Virology Section of LID in 1997. In 2000, Dr. Elkins was appointed Associate Director for Nonhuman Primate Research, DIR, and in 2001, Associate Director for Laboratory Animal Resources and Animal Program Director. He became specialty board certified by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine in 1996.