Faculty

Kathleen Story Harrington
Instructor and Webmaster

Phone: 225-578-9663
Fax: 225-578-9701
kharrington@vetmed.lsu.edu

Education:
B.S. Midwestern University • M.S. Midwestern University

Kathleen Harrington joined the Department in 1980 as a Veterinary Laboratory Specialist. Her duties have evolved through the years from work in clinical bacteriology to computer-based instruction and public health informatics. Promoted to Instructor in 1999, Ms. Harrington currently assists other departmental faculty with the production of multimedia presentations for use in classrooms and at conferences and other special projects. She is a co-instructor with Dr. Chris Mores and Dean Emeritus Michael Groves for VMED 5253, “Regulatory Medicine and Public Health,” a course in the second-year Professional Curriculum, and gives occasional lectures to various graduate classes on topics such as questionnaire writing and use of presentation graphics software. Ms. Harrington has coauthored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers.

Ms. Harrington created and maintains the website for the School of Veterinary Medicine and she has revised and maintains this PBS website and that of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Clinics.

Selected Publications

Groves M.G. and Harrington K.S. 2005. Zoonoses and public health, pp. 1120-1149. In: McCurnin D.M. and Bassert J.M., eds. Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians, 6th ed. Elsevier.

Groves M.G. and Harrington K.S. 2002. Zoonoses and public health, pp. 441–462. In: McCurnin D.M. and Bassert J.M., eds. Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians, 5th ed. W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia.

Groves M.G., Taboada J., and Harrington K.S. 2000. Frequently asked questions about zoonoses, pp. 382–390. In: Ettinger S.J. and Feldman E.C., eds. Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 5th ed., Vol. 1. W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia.

Groves M.G. and Harrington K.S. 1998. Zoonoses and public health, pp. 125–145. In: McCurnin DM, ed. Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians, 4th ed. W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia.

Seahorn T.L., Groves M.G., Harrington K.S., and Beadle R.E. 1996. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in horses in Louisiana. J Am Vet Med Assoc 208:248–251.

Harrington K.S. and Groves M.G. 1995. Cat scratch disease, pp. 23–24. In: Farris R, Mahlow J., Newman E., and Nix B., eds. Health Hazards in Veterinary Practice, 3rd ed. American Veterinary Medical Association, Schaumburg, Ill.

Groves M.G. and Harrington K.S. 1994. Rochalimaea henselae infections: newly recognized zoonoses transmitted by domestic cats. J Am Vet Med Assoc 204:267–271.

Groves M.G. and Harrington K.S. 1994. Glanders and melioidosis, pp. 149–165. In: Beran G, ed. CRC Handbook Series in Zoonoses, 2nd Ed. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla.

Groves M.G. and Harrington K.S. 1994. Scrub Typhus, pp. 463–472. In: Beran G, ed. CRC Handbook Series in Zoonoses, 2nd Ed. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla.