Alina Demeter, DVM, PhD, DACVP

Assistant Professor
Anatomic Pathology Residency Director
Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Ithaca, NY 14853
Profile
Research/Clinical Interests
Neuropathology, Infectious Diseases, Translational Medicine
Education
- ACVP, 2019
- PhD, Szent István University, Doctoral School of Veterinary Sciences (Budapest, Hungary), 2011
Thesis: "Epidemiological study of viral pathogens incriminated in enteric disease complexes in Hungarian broiler flocks, with special emphasis on the newly identified parvovirus" - DVM, University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (Bucharest, Romania), 2004
Biography/Professional Experience
Dr. Alina Demeter is Assistant Clinical Professor of Anatomic Pathology and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (2019). She joined the Anatomic Pathology faculty team after a fellowship in neuropathology at Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, where she also did her anatomic pathology training (2016-2019).
She received her DVM (2004) from the University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest, Romania and her PhD (2011) from the Szent István University, Doctoral School of Veterinary Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Awards and Honors
Recipient of CL Davis Veterinary Pathology Scholarship Award, 2018
Professional/Academic Affiliations
American College of Veterinary Pathologists
Publications
Selected Publications
- Rebollada-Merino A, McDonough SP, Uzal FA, et al. Development of an in situ hybridization assay for the diagnosis of Mycobacteriaceae infections of veterinary importance. Veterinary Pathology. 2025;0(0). doi:10.1177/03009858251367397
- Nelissen S, Lavin ES, Armién AG, Demeter EA. Histomorphological and ultrastructural characterization of pancreatic islet intranuclear and intracytoplasmic inclusions in giant southern pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei). Veterinary Pathology. 2025;0(0). doi:10.1177/03009858251361140
- Sharpe AE, Reichel R, Harrach B, Vidovszky MZ, Murphy D, Demeter EA, et al. Ovine adenovirus serotype 7 infection in a lamb. Vet Rec Case Rep. 2025;e70177. https://doi.org/10.1002/vrc2.70177
- Borcherding, S., Wood, M.D., Pinni, S.L., Schellhardt L., Faust A.E., Behun M.N., Skillen C., Chawla P., Kulkarni M., Demeter E.A., Miller A.D., Mahan M.A., Brown B.A, & Soletti L. Prevention of nerve growth and evoked pain with a nerve cap graft device. npj Regen Med 10, 29 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41536-025-00416-z
- Champion CP, Miller AD, Parry S, Demeter EA. Immunohistochemical and histomorphologic characterization of canine neoplasms of the disseminated neuroendocrine system. Veterinary Pathology. 2025;0(0). doi:10.1177/03009858251324652.
- Mack ZE, Clarke LL, Buckles EL, Demeter EA. Klebsiella pneumoniae complex-associated peritonitis, lymphadenitis, and pyelonephritis in juvenile raccoons (Procyon lotor) under rehabilitator care in New York, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2024; https://doi.org/10.7589/JWD-D-24-00027.
- Ganz J, Marzahl C, Ammeling J, Rosbach E, Richter B, Puget C, Denk D, Demeter EA, Tăbăran FA, Wasinger G, Lipnik K, Tecilla M, Valentine MJ, Dark MJ, Abele N, Bolfa P, Erber R, Klopfleisch R, Merz S, Donovan TA, Jabari S, Bertram CA, Breininger K, Aubreville M. Information mismatch in PHH3-assisted mitosis annotation leads to interpretation shifts in H&E slide analysis. Sci Rep. 2024 Nov 1;14(1):26273. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-77244-6. PMID: 39487193; PMCID: PMC11530454.
- Bochynska D, Sharpe A, Toland B, Demeter EA. Schwannosis in the brain of a neonatal calf. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. 2024;37(1):160-163. doi:10.1177/10406387241283161
- Rissi DR, Miller AD, Daverio H, Demeter EA, Church ME, Donovan TA. Rostral cranial fossa and sinonasal neoplasms with cribriform plate involvement in 32 dogs and 17 cats. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. 2024;36(6):925-932. doi:10.1177/10406387241267899.
- Rissi DR, Miller AD, Demeter EA, Church ME, Koehler JW. Diagnostic immunohistochemistry of primary and secondary central nervous system neoplasms of dogs and cats. J Vet Diagn Invest. 2024 Jan 17:10406387231221858. doi: 10.1177/10406387231221858. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38234003
- Hagedoorn NN, Maze MJ, Carugati M, Cash-Goldwasser S, Allan KJ, Chen K, Cossic B, Demeter E, Gallagher S, German R, Galloway RL, Habuš J, Rubach MP, Shiokawa K, Sulikhan N, Crump JA. Global distribution of Leptospira serovar isolations and detections from animal host species: a systematic review and online database. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Oct 3:2023.10.03.23296503. doi: 10.1101/2023.10.03.23296503. PMID: 37873107; PMCID: PMC10593013
- Hernández-Mora G., Chacon-Diaz C., Moreira-Soto A., Barrantes-Granados O., Suárez-Esquivel M., Víquez-Ruiz E., Barquero-Calvo E., Ruiz-Villalobos N., Hidalgo-Montealegre D., Gonzalez R., Demeter EA., Moranle JE., Zúñiga-Pereira A., Quesada-Gómez C., Chaves-Olarte E., Lomonte B., Guzmán-Verri C., Drexler J., and Moreno E. Virulent Brucella nosferati infecting Desmodus rotundus has emerging potential due to the broad foraging range of its bat host for humans, wild and domestic animals, mSphere , 2023, Volume 8 Issue 4 e00061-23, https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00061-23
- Westermann T, Demeter EA, Diel DG, Renshaw RW, Laverack MA, Gerdes RS, Peters-Kennedy J. Granulomatous mural folliculitis in 16 domestic goats: Infection with malignant catarrhal fever viruses and colocalization with ovine herpesvirus-2 using in situ hybridization. Vet Pathol. 2023 Nov;60(6):876-887. doi: 10.1177/03009858231189303. Epub 2023 Jul 29. PMID: 37515544.
- Kierski KR, Buote NJ, Rishniw M, Ray S, Demeter A. Novel extracellular matrix wound dressing shows increased epithelialization of full-thickness skin wounds in dogs. Am J Vet Res. 2023 Jul 4;84(9):ajvr.23.05.0105. doi: 10.2460/ajvr.23.05.0105. PMID: 37391191.
- Riker J, Clarke LL, Demeter EA, Miller AD, Howerth EW, Miller DM, Rissi DR. Histiocytic sarcoma with central nervous system involvement in 6 cats. J Vet Diagn Invest. 2023 Jan;35(1):87-91. doi: 10.1177/10406387221136849. Epub 2022 Nov 10. PMID: 36366728; PMCID: PMC9751457.
- Melvin, J. M., Mann, S., Divers, T. J., & Demeter, E. A. Tail rubbing and absent tail tone in a Morgan–Quarter Horse crossbred gelding, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2023. https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.23.01.0045.
- Ledbetter EC, Schlesener BN, Demeter EA. Nocardia and Streptomyces keratitis in dogs: In vivo detection of filamentous bacteria by confocal microscopy. Vet Ophthalmol. 2023 Feb 25. doi: 10.1111/vop.13077. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36840607.
- Lin, M., Kent, M., Glass, E. N., Jones, A. M., Miller, A. D., & Demeter, E. A. Pathology in Practice, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2022, 259(S2), 1-5.
- Demeter EA, Kent M, Glass EN, Rissi DR, Edwards J, Miller AD. OLIG2 immunolabeling in feline ependymoma. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. 2022;34(5):898-901.
- Sams KL, Mukai C, Marks BA, Mittal C, Demeter EA, Nelissen S, Grenier JK, Tate AE, Ahmed F, Coonrod SA. Delayed puberty, gonadotropin abnormalities, and subfertility in male Padi2/Padi4 double knockout mice. Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2022 Oct 12;20(1):150.
- Tse MY, Porter IR, Demeter E, Behling-Kelly E, Wakshlag JJ, Miller AD. Osteogenesis Imperfecta in Two Finnish Lapphund Puppies. Vet Med (Auckl). 2021;12:177-185.
- Johnson, P. J., A. D. Miller, J. Cheetham, E. A. Demeter, W. M. Luh, J. P. Loftus, S. L. Stephan, C. W. Dewey and E. F. Barry. "In vivo detection of microstructural spinal cord lesions in dogs with degenerative myelopathy using diffusion tensor imaging."2021, J Vet Intern Med 35(1): 352-362.
- Demeter EA, Frank C, Rissi DR, Porter BF, Miller AD: Microtubule-Associated Protein 2 Expression in Canine Glioma, Front Vet Sci., 2019, Nov 15; 6:395.
- Hayes GM, Demeter EA, Choi E, Oblak M: Single-Stage Craniectomy and Cranioplasty for Multilobular Osteochondrosarcoma Managed with a Custom Additive Manufactured Titanium Plate in a Dog. Case Reports in Veterinary Medicine, vol. 2019, Article ID 6383591
- Demeter EA, Canales GM, Scrivani PV, Duhamel GE: Granulomatous bronchopneumonia, osteomyelitis, fasciitis, and myositis with yeasts consistent with Blastomyces spp. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc., 2019, Jun 1; 254 (11):1287-1290.