Tarini Ullal

Tarini Ullal

Assistant Professor

Medicine & Epidemiology


Education
2011, BA, University of California, Berkeley
2015, DVM, University of California, Davis
2019, MS, Colorado State University,
Active Research Grants
Principal Investigator, Reaching Across the Causeway (RAC) 2024: Improving the Non-invasive Diagnosis and Monitoring of Copper Associated Hepatopathy in Dogs and Humans, (Principal Investigator), UCD SOM and UCD SVM
Principal Investigator, Digital Pathology with Artifical Intelligence to Characterize Feline Cholangitis, (Principal Investigator), EveryCat Health Foundation
Co-Investigator, Application of Bioluminescence and Metal Affinity Assays to Identify Non-Invasive Biomarkers of Copper-Associated Liver Diseases in Dogs and Humans, Heffern (Principal Investigator), Academic Senate UC Davis Grant
Research Focus
• Gastroenterology, hepatobiliary disease, immune mediated chronic hepatitis, copper associated chronic hepatitis, esophageal disease
• Translational medicine and research
• Endoscopic procedures particularly laparoscopic liver biopsy, gastrointestinal endoscopy, esophagostomy tube and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement
Specialty Focus
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Ten Recent Publications

2023
Chen FL, Ullal TV, Graves JL, Ratcliff ER, Naka A, McKenzie B, Carttar TA, Super KM, Austriaco J, Weber SY, Vaughn J, LaCroix-Fralish ML
Evaluating instruments for assessing healthspan: a multi-center cross-sectional study on health-related quality of life (HRQL) and frailty in the companion dog.

2023
Ullal TV, Jaffey JA, Kreisler R, Matheson J, Pacholec C, Shumway K, Van den Bossche L, Fieten H, Ringold R, DeClue AE
Increasing age and severe intraoperative hypotension associated with nonsurvival in dogs with gallbladder mucocele undergoing cholecystectomy.

2023
Ullal TV, Marks SL, Evenhuis JV, Figueroa ME, Pomerantz LK, Forsythe LR
Evaluation of gastroprotectant administration in hospitalized cats in a tertiary referral hospital.

2022
Moss AL, Acutt EV, Ullal T, Applegate TJ, Hackett ES
Ureteropyeloscopic removal of a nephrolith from a 19 year old Hanoverian gelding

2020
Jaffey JA, Matheson J, Shumway K, Pacholec C, Ullal T, Van den Bossche L, Fieten H, Ringold R, Lee KJ, DeClue AE
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in dogs with gallbladder mucocele

2020
Curtis B, Harris A, Ullal T, Schaffer PA, Muñoz Gutiérrez J
Disseminated Neospora caninum infection in a dog with severe colitis