Rate My Professor Theresa Beachler

Theresa Beachler, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACT, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine at Iowa State University of Science and Technology's College of Veterinary Medicine. She specializes in theriogenology, with a focus on comparative reproduction in large and small animals, including equine, bovine, small ruminant, camelid, canine, and feline species. Beachler provides clinical reproductive services through the Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center's Large Animal Hospital, Field Services, and Small Animal Reproduction services, and contributes to the Comparative Theriogenology Residency Program. Her academic background includes a BS in Animal Science from North Carolina State University in 2007, a DVM from the same institution in 2012, and a PhD in Comparative Biomedical Sciences in 2019. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists in 2015.

Beachler's research interests center on assisted reproductive techniques, gestational pathology, metabolomic profiling in pregnancy, antimicrobial treatments for reproductive tract infections, and conditions such as embryonic diapause, oxidative stress in neonatal foals, and X chromosomal monosomy. She serves as instructor-in-charge for VDPAM 471E: Equine Reproduction and co-instructor for VDPAM 450: Disturbances in Reproduction, VDPAM 471C: Comparative Reproduction, and VDPAM 471S: Small Animal Reproduction. Her publications include "Plasma metabolomic profiling of healthy pregnant mares and mares with experimentally induced placentitis" (Equine Veterinary Journal, 2021), "Metabolomic profile of allantoic and amniotic fluid in late-term gestational mares characterized by 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy" (Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, 2020), "Uroperitoneum in a preparturient mare" (Clinical Theriogenology, 2022), "Clinical outcome of intracervical procaine penicillin and gentamicin infusion in the pregnant mare" (Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, in press), "Oxidative stress in critically ill neonatal foals" (2025), and "Embryonic diapause: a unique stage of development" (2024). Beachler is a member of the American College of Theriogenologists, Society for Theriogenology, American Association of Equine Practitioners, Iowa Veterinary Medical Association, and Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society.