Titles and Education

1. Team member for UW-Madison at the Universities of Wisconsin Faculty College 2025: (Re)Engaging with SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
2. Center for teaching, learning & mentoring (CTLM) Teaching Fellow 2025
3. Center for teaching, learning & mentoring (CTLM) Spring Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Sessions 2025
   • Demystifying the Institutional Review Board
   • Writing a Scholarly Teaching Research Question
   • Methods and Analysis Techniques for Scholarly Teaching Research
4. Enhancing Online Education Micro-course Series - Certificate 2024 (Course Planning, Designing Assessments, Course Management, Fostering Community, & Cultivating Inclusivity)
5. AMEE Essential Skills in Medical Education (ESME) Certificate 2023
6. Enhancing Online Education: Planning Your Online Course 2023
7. Fully Prepared to Lead Certificate 2023
8. Plain Language Certificate 2021
9. Certificate for Diversity and Inclusion in Veterinary Medicine 2021
10. Blend@UW Certificate 2020
11. Teaching 21st Century Skills Certificate 2020
12. Fundamentals of Online Teaching Certificate 2020
13. UW Madison Extension- Master Gardener 2014
14. Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, DVM, 2002
15. University of Wisconsin- Madison B.S. Wildlife Ecology, 1997

Research

• 2025 Center for Teaching, Learning & Mentoring (CTLM) Winter Retreat: Cultivating Client Education as a Professional Skill - Veterinary Anatomy Fair.
• 2024 UW SVM Veterinary Education Day: Reexamining Assessments: A Retrospective Study. Flash Talk.
• 2023 Gunderson M, Hershberger K, Lygo-Baker S. Topographical interrelationships of abdominal organs: One model- three active learning activities; Veterinary Educational Collaborative (VEC): Workshop.
• 2023 Dean’s Luncheon, “Active Learning in Veterinary Education; Years 1 - 3”.
• 2023 UW SVM Veterinary Education Day
  • Teaching Techniques Round Robin, “No foot, no horse: an equine foot educational expedition”
  • Table Talks: Conversations with Colleagues, “Assessments: Consistency and Creativity”.
• 2023 Clinical skill model demonstration for Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) international guests
• 2023 Clinical skill model demonstration at MAECK clinical skill lab dedication ceremony
• 2022 UW SVM Veterinary Education Day
  • “New Teaching & Training Models for Veterinary Education”
• 2021 UW SVM Education Day
  • “Demonstration of OHE Model”
• 2020 Veterinary Education Collaborative (VEC). Presentation: “The Great Escape: Advancement of basic surgical skills and knowledge through game-based learning.” Accepted. Canceled due to Covid.

Responsibilities

Assistant teaching professor for the comparative biosciences department (CBS)

Course Director and instructor for Anatomy of the Large Domestic Animals

Instructor for or Fundamental Principles of Veterinary Anatomy

Instructor for Fundamentals of Clinical Skills Elective

Movement & Support Module Co-lead for curricular revision

Clinical Interests

Teaching philosophy: I focus on fully engaging students with veterinary content, where they are able to immerse themselves in the content, language, skills, and concepts of the materials they are studying. This is accomplished through the use of a community-based learning model. The content is at the core of this community. Faculty and staff act as mentors & coaches while facilitating interaction with the central content. Students are an integral part of the community, and are encouraged to experiment with their learning of that content based on their needs and previous experiences.

The agency created in this educational process shifts the responsibility of learning to the student; allowing them to individualize their approach, set and reach their personal goals, and achieve the course's learning objectives. In this process, curiosity is essential. In order to satisfy curiosity, students must be vulnerable and fail occasionally. Teachers and learners within our community understand that deep learning often occurs during these challenging moments, resulting in personal growth and improved resilience. Assessment in this process mirrors learning, and focuses on students' ability to communicate in the language of a veterinary medical professional, demonstrate veterinary clinical skills, define their veterinary knowledge, and apply that knowledge and experience to solve clinical problems. 

Innovative Models: Creativity & innovation in education is where my passion lies. I love to learn new ways to teach students, and am always pushing the limits of change to improve outcomes for my students. I often accomplish this through the creation of interactive, anatomically correct, 3D teaching models and supportive active learning content that allows students across phases to individualize their learning and work as a team to master veterinary terms and concepts, simulate/solve problems, perform and practice clinical skills, and communicate as veterinary professionals. These activities are designed to facilitate small and large group discussions in a low-stakes, low-stress environment. 

Experience: I am an assistant teaching professor, course coordinator & instructor for anatomy of large domestic animals and an instructor for fundamental principles of anatomy and the clinical skills courses. Previously, I was a lecturer for small and large animal anatomy and taught in the clinical skills course from the fall of 2021 till fall of 2023. From 2014- 2021, I was a senior instructional specialist for the Department of Surgical Sciences.

Prior to my work at the UW SVM, I taught veterinary technician students, and worked with a team of researchers for the Department of Otolaryngology at the School of Medicine and Public Health developing novel surgical repairs for vocal fold defects in hope of restoring voice in people diagnosed with dysphonia due to laryngeal disorders. Immediately after graduation from veterinary school I was a large and small animal veterinary practitioner at local clinics.

Awards:

2025 UW Madison Teaching Academy Fellow (3 - year term)

2025 Excellence in Collaborative Teaching Award nominee

2024 Zoetis Distinguished Teaching Award nominee

2018 SCAVMA Instructor of the Year

2017 SCAVMA Instructor of the Year nominee

2016 SCAVMA Instructor of the Year nominee

2015 Veterinarian of the Year - Wisconsin Veterinary Technicians Association (WVTA)

Personal Interests: Every chance I get I am off traveling the world, snowboarding, cross country skiing, playing or coaching hockey, swimming, diving, hiking, geocaching, SUP'ing, kayaking, climbing, or gardening.  I am a citizen scientist for Xerces Society, and I raise and release hundreds of Monarch butterflies annually (eggs collected from milkweed in my yard).

Recent Publications

1. Tian L, Henningsen J, Salick MR, Crone WC, Gunderson M, Dailey SH, Chesler NC. Stretch calculated from grip distance accurately approximates mid-specimen stretch in large elastic arteries in uniaxial tensile tests. J Mech Behav Biomed Mat. 2015 Jul;47:107-13. PMID:25881308
2. Hoffman M, Glab R, Gunderson M, Maytag AL, Yang D, Jiang JJ, Dailey SH. Functional and histological evaluation following canine vocal fold reconstruction using composite thyroid ala perichondrium flaps. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2015 Jul;153(1):79-87 PMID: 25883099
3. Glab R, Gunderson M, Torrealba J, Bauer B, Dailey SH. Elucidation of Soft Tissue Flap Histologic Margins within a Canine Vocal Fold. Histol Histopathol. 2015 Jan:30(1):95-103. PMID: 25045966
4. Tian L, Kellihan HB, Henningsen J, Bellofiore A, Forouzan O, Roldan-Alzate A, Consigny DW, Gunderson M, Dailey SH, Francois CJ, Chesler NC. Pulmonary artery relative area change is inversely related to ex-vivo measured arterial elastic modulus in the canine model of acute pulmonary embolization. J biomech. 2014 Sep22:47(12):2904-10 PMID: 25128393
5. Gunderson M, Dailey SH, Bauer B, Glab R. Technical Refinements to the Minithyrotomy Procedure. J Voice. 2014 Feb; PMID: 24495420
6. Dailey SH, Ng K, Gunderson M, Petty B. Vocal Fold Reconstruction: A Novel Flap. Laryngoscope. 2013 Nov:123(11):2793-7. Doi:10.1002/lary.24074. Epub 2013 Apr 24. PMID: 23616137
7. Dailey SH, Gunderson M, Chan R, Torrealba J, Kimura M, Welham NV. Local vascularized flaps for augmentation of Reinke's space. Laryngoscope. 2011 Feb; 121 Suppl 3:S37-60. PMID: 21271606
8. Goodyer E, Gunderson M, Dailey SH. Gradation of stiffness of the mucosa inferior to the vocal fold. J Voice. 2010 May; 24(3):359-62. Epub 2009 Mar 20. PMID: 19303741