University of Saskatchewan

Western College of Veterinary Medicine

Montgomery, Julia

Assistant Professor, Large Animal Medicine
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
Office Location: WCVM 2413
Phone: (306) 966-7025
Fax: (306) 966-7159
Email: julia.montgomery@usask.ca

Profile

Home Community: Hamburg, Germany

Academic Credentials

Teaching and Clinical Areas

Dr. Montgomery’s teaching areas include large animal internal medicine as well as veterinary anatomy with a focus on large animal comparative anatomy. Dr. Montgomery has a special interest in respiratory diseases of horses, large animal cardiology, neonatology, critical care, and equine nutrition.  

Research Interests

Dr. Montgomery has a research background in equine immunology and nutrition. Her current research is focused on innate immune mechanisms involved in non-septic lower airway inflammation in horses and remote (secondary) lung injury in horses and dogs. Dr. Montgomery is a member of the Pulmonary Pathobiology Laboratory at Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. For more information please visit http://www.wcvm.com/vmc_clients/respiratory.php

Publications

Julia B. Montgomery, Jeffrey J. Wichtel, Maureen G. Wichtel, Mary A. McNiven, J T. McClure, Fred Markham, David W. Horohov. Effects of Selenium Source on Measures of Selenium Status and Immune Function in Horses. Can J Vet Res. 76: 281-291, 2012

Julia B. Montgomery, Jeffrey J. Wichtel, Maureen G. Wichtel, Mary A. McNiven, J T. McClure, Fred Markham, David W. Horohov. The Effects of Selenium Source on Measures of Selenium Status of Mares and Selenium Status and Immune Function of their Foals. J Equine Vet Sci. 32: 352-359, 2012 

Julia B. Montgomery, Jeffrey J. Wichtel, Maureen G. Wichtel, Mary A. McNiven, J T. McClure. The efficacy of selenium treatment of forage for the correction of selenium deficiency in horses. Anim Feed Sci Technol. 170: 63-71, 2011

Julia B. Montgomery, Wendy M. Duckett, Andrea C. Bourque. Pelvic lymphoma as a cause of urethral compression in a mare. Can Vet J. 50: 751-754, 2009

Alejandro Ceballos, Javier Sanchez, Henrik Stryhn, Julia B. Montgomery, Herman W. Barkema, Jeffrey J. Wichtel. Meta-analysis of the effect of oral selenium supplementation on milk selenium concentration in cattle. J Dairy Sci. 92:324-342, 2009

Julia B. Krause, Harold C. McKenzie III. Parenteral nutrition in foals: a retrospective study of 45 cases (2000-2004). Equine Vet J. 39: 74-78, 2007