Office:     335f AS/VM, 1988 Fitch Ave, St.Paul Campus
Phone:     612-624-2267
Fax:         612-625-0204
E-mail:   clarkson@umn.edu

Education:
     DVM 1978 University of Minnesota
     PhD 1985 Texas A&M University

Current teaching responsibilities:
     CVM 6100 Veterinary Gross Anatomy
     CVM 6111 Histology
     CVM 6112 Organology
     CVM 6722 Equine Lameness

Academic interests:
I am interested in the development of teaching modules related to clinical applied anatomy.  Our goal is to develop a library of teaching material of this nature accessible through our Veterinary Anatomy web site (http://vanat.cvm.umn.edu).

My research interests focus on the biology and therapeutic application of adult stem cells in animal models of human disease and as a therapy in the treatment of various spontaneous animal diseases.

Other professional interests:
     Small animal clinical practice

Selected publications authored by Dr. Clarkson:

Ph.D. Thesis
Clarkson, CE, Ph.D. Thesis: Tissue Culture as a Means of Establishing an Epidermal-Implant Union in Percutaneous Implants.  Department of Veterinary Anatomy, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 1985

Peer Reviewed Papers
Torres SM, Feeney DA, Lekcharoensuk C, Fletcher TF, Clarkson CE, Nash NL, Hayden DW: Comparison of colloid, thyroid follicular epithelium, and thyroid hormone concentrations in healthy and severely sick dogs.  J Am Vet Med Assoc. 222(8):1079-85, 2003.

Rickers C, Gallegos R, Seethamraju R, Wang X, Swingen C, Jayaswal A, Rahrmann E, Kastenberg Z, Clarkson C, Bianco R, O Brien T, Verfaillie C, Bolman R, Wilke N, Jerosch-Herold M:  Applications of magnetic resonance imaging for cardiac stem cell therapy.  J Interv Cardiol  16(1):37-46, 2004.

Abstracts
1. Reyes M, Ross JR, Clarkson C, Bergstrom RA, Verfaillie CM, Tranquillo RT: Coentrapment of MAPC-derived smooth muscle and endothelial cells for tissue-engineered arteries.  Am Soc Hematol 2003

2. Gallegos R, Avinash Jayaswal, Christina Clarkson,  Eric Rahrmann, Zach Kastenberg, James Xu, Richard Jones, Jenifer Gravelle, Xiaoen Wang, Michael Jerosch-Herold, R. Morton Bolman III, Timothy D. O Brien, Catherine Verfaillie; Bone Marrow Induced Myocardial Restoration in the Canine Model.   American Society of Hematology 2003.

3. Gallegos R, X. Wang, A. Jayaswal, E. Rahrmann, R.Jones, Z. Kastenberg, J. Gravelle, X. Xu, C. Clarkson, C. Swingen, R. Seethamraju, N. Osman, Richard Bianco, Timothy D. O'Brien, Catherine M. Verfaillie,  R. Morton Bolman, Michael Jerosch-Herold: MRI demonstrates improved regional myocardial strain following stem cell treatment in a canine infarct model.  Am Heart Assoc, Nov 2003, Orlando, FL

4. Gallegos RP, Cory Swingen, Xiaoen Wang, Christina E Clarkson, R. Morton Bolman: Serum troponin predicts infarct size.    American Heart Assoc, San Antonio, Texas  April 30, 2003

5. Gallegos RP, Avinash Jayaswal, Christina Clarkson, Eric Rahrmann, Zack Kastenberg, Imran Al-Amin Ravi Teja Seethamraju, R. Morton Bolman III, Catherine Verfaillie,  Norbert Wilke: Myocardial perfusion reserve to assess cardiac stem cell therapy.  North Am Soc Cardiac Imaging, Sept 2002, Houston, TX

6. Clarkson CE,  Rahrmann E, Kastenberg Z, Sandquist L, Felton M, Jayaswal A,  Reyes M, Verfaillie CM, O Brien TD: Preliminary Evidence of Multipotent Stem Cells Derived from Adult Canine Bone Marrow.  4th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, Toronto, Canada, June 29, 2006.

7. O'Brien TD, Rahrmann E, Sandquist L, Kastenberg Z, Clarkson CE, Donahue RE, Verfaillie CM: Preliminary Evidence of Multipotent Stem Cells Derived from Adult Rhesus Macaque Bone Marrow.  4th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, Toronto, Canada, June 29, 2006.