Linda L. Logan, DVM

Professor, Department of Pathobiology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Texas A&M University

Dr. Logan spent her formative years growing up in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia, where she developed a life-long fascination with tropical diseases of livestock. Following graduation from Texas Tech University she spent a summer working at the veterinary school at Ahmadu Bello University in Northern Nigeria. The interest she developed in parasitology during that experience lead to a Masters degree from the University of Georgia in Veterinary Parasitology. This was followed by a third degree in veterinary medicine from Texas A&M University.

Following this educational crusade, Linda worked for 4 years on a Texas A&M vector-borne disease project in Bamako, Mali. This field exposure to tropic livestock diseases sent her packing back to graduate school to do a degree in Comparative Pathology at the University of California, Davis. Following her residency at UCD, she conducted her research project on heartwater at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

Upon graduation, she landed another fascinating job working at the International Laboratory for Livestock Diseases in Nairobi, Kenya. During her time at ILRI she conducted research on the anemia associated with bovine trypanosomiasis. Concurrently, she served as a project leader and program area leader coordinating the research of the immunology and pathology group working on bovine trypanosomiasis.

In 1996 she joined the USDA Agricultural Research Service as the National Program Leader for Animal Health. She served in this challenging position for four and a half years coordinating the research program at such laboratories as the National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa, Plum Island Animal Disease Center and nine other ARS animal health research laboratories scattered throughout the US.

In 2000 Linda had the opportunity to return to her home state as the Texas State Veterinarian. There was never a dull moment in this job. She knew it was going to be a challenging day when she entered the front door of the building and immediately her deputy and the agency’s legal council started following her down hall relaying some new Texas animal health crisis.

Most recently, Linda shifted her professional interests out of regulatory veterinary medicine and into educational veterinary medicine. She recently joined the Department of Pathobiology as a Professor on the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University. She hopes to broaden the curriculum at TAMU by provide more educational emphasis on exotic diseases of livestock and emerging zoonotic diseases.