Rate My Professor Khama Kelman

Khama Kelman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy at Murdoch University, affiliated with the Centre for Animal Production and Health. A veterinarian by training, she holds qualifications including BSc, BVMS, PhD, and FHEA. She completed her PhD at Murdoch University in 2014 with the thesis titled 'Lamb growth impacts muscle oxidative capacity and meat quality.' Kelman teaches veterinary form and function in the preclinical years of the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree. Her research interests include veterinary education and production animals, with contributions to studies on lamb growth genetics, meat quality, and animal anatomy.

Kelman's scholarly output encompasses 27 publications, cited over 364 times. Key works include 'Sire Breed, Litter Size, and Environment Influence Genetic Potential for Lamb Growth When Using Sire Breeding Values' (Animals, 2022); 'Lamb meat colour is minimally affected under reduced oxygen packaging' (Applied Food Research, 2024); 'Extreme bilateral polydactyly in a wild-caught western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)' (The Anatomical Record, 2021); 'Consumer Perceptions of Meat Redness Were Strongly Associated with Simplified CIELAB Metrics and Single Time Point Surface Colour' (Foods, 2021); 'Selection for reduced PFAT decreases Isocitrate Dehydrogenase activity' (2011); and 'Multiple births limit the advantage of using high growth sires' (2011). She has supervised doctoral theses such as 'Calibration and standardisation of Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry for the assessment of carcass composition in sheep' (2023) and 'Consumer Perceptions Towards Lamb Meat Colour and Storage' (2023). Her research impacts animal production, health, and meat science fields through collaborations with institutions like the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation.