Rate My Professor Natalia Guerrero

Since joining Virginia Tech in 2007 as an Assistant Professor, she advanced to Associate Professor (2014) and Professor (2025). Administratively, she held roles as Associate Department Head (2017), Interim Department Head (2017-2021), and Department Head since 2021. As anesthesia service chief, she provides clinical services and training. Her leadership facilitated the recruitment of 22 diverse faculty, bolstering departmental strengths. Her research specializes in veterinary anesthesia, focusing on hemodynamic effects of anesthetics, bispectral index monitoring, equipment, and pain management. With 37 peer-reviewed publications, highlights include "Intracranial nonthermal irreversible electroporation: in vivo analysis" (2010), "Successful treatment of a large soft tissue sarcoma with irreversible electroporation" (2011), "Acute adverse events associated with ventral slot decompression in 546 dogs with cervical intervertebral disc disease" (2013), and "Isoflurane minimum alveolar concentration sparing effects of fentanyl in the dog" (2017). In 2023, she earned the Grant Turnwald Innovation Award for the Animal Instructors Program, enhancing student training through community pet involvement. She contributes to university governance via the Department Heads Council and University Council.