Education

MBA--1995, Boise State University

DVM--1967, University of California, Davis

BA--1960, University of California Berkeley

1984-1989: Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine, University of Idaho, Caine Veterinary Teaching Center, Caldwell

1979-1984: Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine, University of Idaho, Caine Veterinary Teaching Center, Caldwell

1977-1979: Instructor, Veterinary Medicine, University of Idaho, Caine Veterinary Teaching Center, Caldwell

1975-1976: Idaho Racing Commission Veterinarian

1972-1975: Clinical Veterinarian, self-employed, Caldwell, Idaho

1971-1972: Clinical Veterinarian, Humphreys Animal Hospital, Oxnard, California

1968-1971: Acting Head, Veterinary Section, Radiobiology Lab, University of California, Davis

1963-1967: Medical Technologist, Woodland Memorial Hospital, Woodland, California

1960-1963: Public Health Microbiologist, Martinez, California

Marie Bulgin, DVM, MBA, Diplomate, American Society for Microbiology

Research Program

Dr. Bulgin began her research career in a very practical way, in addressing sheep disease problems encountered during her teaching activities.  For example, in the 70’s many sheep producers tended to look only at their ewes as the culprits when poor lamb crops arrived in the spring.  Dr. Bulgin was able to show that reproductive infections (epididymitis) in the rams were often to blame.  She demonstrated that detection and elimination of such rams prior to the breeding season eliminated the problem of abortions, stillbirths and weak, underweight lambs.

Additionally, through Dr. Bulgin’s research, she found that the epididymitis began in young lambs and that more than one bacterium was to blame.  Breeding soundness examinations on rams are done regularly by Dr. Bulgin and her colleagues.

The ewes did not get off without some of Dr. Bulgin’s attention.  The development of “Hard Bag” often compromised a ewe’s ability to raise multiple lambs.  The udder of some ewes was consumed by a gradual inflammatory hardening due to the destruction of the major duct pathways for the milk to get out of the glands.  With colleagues, Dr. Bulgin found that a particular virus was to blame.

And today, Dr. Bulgin remains a giant in sheep research, this time in an area that also will benefit the cattle industry, wildlife and human health.  The disease under scrutiny is “Scrapie” an affliction of the brain.  In humans, the similar disease is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.  In cattle, the similar disease (not in the USA ) is the well-known “Mad Cow Disease” now eradicated from Great Britain , and in deer and elk, “Chronic Wasting Disease.”