Dr. Pompei Bolfa

About

Dr. Pompei Bolfa is a board certified pathologist (DACVP), associate professor of anatomic pathology and serves as Pathology division head at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, where he started in 2014. He received his DVM degree in 2004 from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania. After 3 years in a mixed practice he developed an interest for research and teaching, started a PhD in equine infectious anemia and also began teaching infectious diseases at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He then moved to a full time Pathology teaching position, and started training for the Veterinary Anatomic Pathology board exam, which he successfully completed in 2016 while in St. Kitts. 

Dr. Bolfa’s research interests include primary or collaborative focus  on one health oriented areas like comparative pathology, primate pathology, tropical keratopathy, pulmonary silicate pneumoconiosis, veterinary pathology, avian pathology and tropical diseases and many others. 

Publications

  1. Baldea, I., D. E. Olteanu, P. Bolfa, F. Tabaran, R. M. Ion and G. A. Filip. (2016). Melanogenesis and DNA damage following photodynamic therapy in melanoma with two meso-substituted porphyrins. Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology, 161, 402-410. 
  2. Bolfa P., Wang P., Nair R., Rajeev S., Armien A.G., Henthorn P.S., Wood T., Thrall M.A., Giger U.. (2019). Hereditary β-mannosidosis in the dog: clinicopathological and molecular genetic characterization. Accepted for publication in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 
  3. Orasan, M. S., P. Bolfa, A. Coneac, A. Muresan and C. Mihu. (2016). Topical Products for Human Hair Regeneration: A Comparative Study on an Animal Model. Annals of dermatology, 28, 65-73. 
  4. Scrobota, I., P. Bolfa, A. G. Filip, C. Catoi, C. Alb, O. Pop, C. Tatomir and G. Baciut (2016). Natural chemopreventive alternatives in oral cancer chemoprevention. Journal of physiology and pharmacology : an official journal of the Polish Physiological Society, 67, 161-172. 
  5. Bolfa P, Jeon I, Loftis A, Leslie T, Marchi S, Sithole F, Beck C, Lecollinet S, Zientara S, Hans A, Issel CJ. (2017). Detection of West Nile Virus and other common equine viruses in three locations from the Leeward Islands, West Indies. Acta Trop, 174, 4.  
  6. Scrobota I, Baciut G, Buzatu R, Szuhanek C, Todor L, Vlad SV, Bolfa P, Calniceanu H. (2017). Oxidative Stress Markers in Chemically Induced Oral Premalignant Lesions. REV.CHIM, 86(6), 4.  
  7. Cervena, B., Hrazdilova, K., Vallo, P., Ketzis, J., Bolfa, P., Tudor, E.,. Modry, D. (2018). Mammomonogamus nematodes in felid carnivores: a minireview and the first molecular characterization. Parasitology, 1-10. doi:10.1017/s0031182018000768 
  8. Bolfa, P., DellaGrotte, L., Weronko, T., & Armien, A. G. (2018). Cutaneous epithelioid hemangiosarcoma with granular cell differentiation in a dog: a case report and review of the literature. J Vet Diagn Invest, 1040638718794785. doi:10.1177/1040638718794785 
  9. Bolfa, P., Kelly, S. J., Wells, H. C., Sizeland, K. H., Scott, E. M., Kirby, N., Kelly, P. J. (2018). Tropical Keratopathy (Florida Spots) in Cats. Vet Pathol, 300985818789483. doi:10.1177/0300985818789483 
  10. Bolfa, P., Larson, C., Peda, A., Hilchie, D., Christopher, M. M., & Thrall, M. A. (2018). Thoracic and paraspinal extramedullary hematopoiesis in a cat with chronic non-regenerative anemia. JFMS Open Rep, 4(2), 2055116918798868. doi:10.1177/2055116918798868 
  11. Brown, A., Bolfă, P., Marchi, S., Hemmings, S., Major, T., Suepaul, R., Oura, C. (2018). Detection of Antibodies to Seven Priority Pathogens in Backyard Poultry in Trinidad, West Indies. Vet Sci, 5, 11. doi:10.3390/vetsci5010011 
  12. Bolfa, P., Callanan, J. J., Ketzis, J., Marchi, S., Cheng, T., Huynh, H., Lavinder, T., Boey, K., Kelly, P. (2019). Infections and pathology of free-roaming backyard chickens on St. Kitts, West Indies. J Vet Diagn Invest, 1040638719843638. doi:10.1177/1040638719843638 
  13. Becker AAMJ, Rajeev S, Freeman MA, Beierschmitt A, Savinon V, Wulcan JM, Bolfa P. (2019). Extraintestinal Acanthocephalan Oncicola venezuelensis (Oligacanthorhynchidae) in Small Indian Mongooses (Herpestes auropunctatus) and African Green Monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus). Vet Pathol. Jun 6:300985819848502. doi: 10.1177/0300985819848502. 
  14. Bolfa P., Wang P., Nair R., Rajeev S., Armien A.G., Henthorn P.S., Wood T., Thrall M.A., Giger U.. (2019). Hereditary β-mannosidosis in the dog: clinicopathological and molecular genetic characterization. Accepted for publication in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism.

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