Dr. P. Lathan

DVM

Patty Lathan, VMD, MS, DACVIM, is a Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Louisiana State University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Texas A&M University, a VMD from the University of Pennsylvania, and then completed an internship at Mississippi State University and a residency in small animal internal medicine at Purdue University. She taught at Mississippi State University for 16 years prior to moving to LSU. Dr. Lathan specializes in endocrinology, specifically adrenal function testing, diabetes mellitus, and the mitigation of side effects of glucocorticoids. She is a past-president of the Society for Comparative Endocrinology.