Dr. Pamela Wilkins joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 2008 after serving on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania New Bolton Center from 1998 to 2008. She has authored or co-authored more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 125 scientific abstracts, 200 scientific and clinical meeting proceedings, and 130 book chapters, reviews and editorials. Dr. Wilkins has served as Principle Investigator or Co-Investigator on more than 40 grants and contracts. She co-edited the textbook ‘Equine Emergency and Critical Care’, published in 2015. Dr. Wilkins has provided more than 300 continuing education lectures in the United States, Canada, Brazil, England, Ireland, Scotland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Australia and South Africa. She had been honored with the IVECCS 2008 inaugural Equine Educator Award, the 2016 Ira Zaslow Award for Excellence in Service to VECCS, the 2018 World Equine Veterinary Association Boehringer Ingelheim Research Award and the 2019 the T. Douglas Byars Equine Emergency & Critical Care Educator of the Year Award. Her current research interests include biomarkers of disease and disease severity.