Rate My Professor Jenny Charles

Associate Professor Jenny Charles serves in the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne as Associate Professor in Veterinary Pathology, based at the Werribee campus of the Melbourne Veterinary School. Her extensive involvement in veterinary education is documented across multiple subject handbooks spanning over a decade. She has coordinated key subjects essential to veterinary training, including Veterinary Pathology A, which equips students with foundational knowledge in veterinary pathology, and Veterinary Pathology B, covering topics such as pathology of the circulatory and cardiovascular systems. Additionally, she coordinated Veterinary Paraclinical Sciences, focusing on diseases of the alimentary system, liver, and pancreas. Her teaching portfolio extends to Principles of Veterinary Bioscience (VETS90062), offered in Semester 1 with dual-delivery mode at Parkville, emphasizing an integrated approach.

Jenny Charles has also coordinated Veterinary Bioscience: Metabolism and Excretion (VETS30017 and VETS90125), utilizing clinical cases to introduce principles of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, and urinary systems, with 90-94 hours of lectures, practical classes, and case studies. She contributed to Veterinary Bioscience 1 (VETS70003), covering units on various systems including cardiovascular and respiratory led by her and colleagues, and Veterinary Bioscience 1B (VETS90116) in Semester 2. In research, she co-authored the 2017 publication 'Farnesoid X Receptor Agonist Treatment Alters Bile Acid Metabolism but Exacerbates Liver Damage in a Piglet Model of Short Bowel Syndrome' in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, affiliated with the Department of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. She has provided pathology expertise in studies such as the emergence of nasal chondrosarcoma in a dog with nasal polyposis.