About Me

Devendra grew up in a rural community in Western India. He was trained as a veterinarian at Bombay Veterinary College. He practiced in mixed animal, and poultry medicine in clinical and industrial setting before pursuing academic career path in veterinary clinical microbiology and infectious disease research. As a graduate student, Devendra worked on the epidemiology of poultry salmonellosis and bovine tuberculosis. Later, he pursued post-doctoral trainings at Chonbuk National University College of Veterinary Medicine, South Korea, and at Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Devendra served as an Associate Professor of veterinary microbiology, Caroline Engle distinguished professor of infectious disease research, and an Associate Chair of DVM education at Washington State University.

Instruction

Focus on teaching problem solving within: Infectious Diseases; Veterinary Clinical Microbiology; Mechanisms of Bacterial Infectious Diseases; One Health Concepts and Practice; Antimicrobial Resistance; and Experimental Design.

Research

• Biology of food- and vector-borne infectious agents in clinical, agricultural (food systems), and environmental settings.
• Pathogenesis, pathogen discovery, antimicrobial resistance, and source tracing of zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases of wildlife, production animals (or livestock), and companion animals.

Service

Devendra actively contributes to various regional, national, and international committees and working groups. He is a member of the Global One Health Academy, Texas Veterinary Medical Association, USDA-NIFA NC1202 multi-state committee on enteric diseases of food animals: enhanced prevention, control, and food safety, the Conference for Research Workers in Animal Diseases, the American Society of Microbiology, and the Poultry Science Association. Additionally, he has served on the research oversight committee of a multi-institutional research project on a Syst-OMICS approach to ensuring food safety and reducing the economic burden of salmonellosis, and he is an associate editor of Zoonoses and Public Health and Veterinary Sciences.