PROFILES

PAIGE CARMICHAEL

PAIGE CARMICHAEL

JOSIAH MEIGS DISTINGUISHED TEACHING PROFESSOR
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

DONORS MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO FULFILL MY PASSIONS FOR FACILITATING THE LEARNING OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS, MENTORING EARLY-CAREER FACULTY, AND PROMOTING AND PARTICIPATING IN INTERDISCIPLINARY ONE HEALTH RESEARCH THAT FOCUSES ON THE INTERSECTION OF HUMAN, ANIMAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.

For Paige Carmichael, the division between teaching and mentoring is nonexistent. The first Black professor at the University to receive the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, Carmichael’s scholarship focuses on neurological diseases common to people and animals. Her research interests extend into therapeutics and ophthalmic pathology.