About the Author
Baljit Singh is Dean and Professor of Veterinary Anatomy at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary.
Before this, he was Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. He obtained a BVSc&AH and an MVSc from Punjab Agricultural University and a PhD from the University of Guelph, and he completed postdoctoral training at Texas A&M University and Columbia University in New York. He is licensed as a Veterinarian in Canada.Baljit is a recipient of many teaching awards, including Outstanding Veterinary Anatomist Award (2016) from the American Association of Veterinary Anatomists; 3M Canadian National Teaching Fellowship (2009), Canada's highest teaching honour; and Master Teacher Award of the University of Saskatchewan. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists. He has served as the President of the American Association of Veterinary Anatomists (2005-2008), as a member of the Canadian National Examining Board for Veterinary Medicine (2006-2013), and as a member of the Council on Education of the American-Canadian Veterinary Medical Associations.
Baljit's research program is in the areas of lung inflammation, infectious disease, and nanomedicines. He has trained more than 90 postgraduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral students and published approximately 95 research papers. He is currently Section Editor (Immunology/Inflammation) of Cell and Tissue Research and an editor of Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology. He has received the Pfizer Research Excellence Award, Visiting Professorship at the Centre for Excellence in Immunology, Hannover, Germany, and has given many invited lectures.