Joan Hendricks

Dr. Joan C. Hendricks became the 12th dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine in 2006. She is the third female dean of a veterinary school in the United States. Dr. Hendricks has served on the faculty of the School for more than 20 years. In 2001, she became the first woman to hold an endowed professorship at Penn Vet, when she was named the Henry and Corinne R. Bower Professor of Small Animal Medicine. In addition to serving as chief of critical care in the Department of Clinical Studies at Philadelphia, Dr. Hendricks is founding director of the Veterinary Clinical Investigation Center (VCIC) and holds a secondary appointment as professor in the Department of Medicine at Penn’s School of Medicine. Dr. Hendricks also has served in a leadership position in the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association (PVMA).

In the area of critical care, Dr. Hendricks has played a key role in enhancing teaching and patient care. With colleagues at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital, she was instrumental in establishing a Center for Critical Care at the hospital, which brought the Emergency Service, Intensive Care Unit and the Anesthesia Service together into a single section. Dr. Hendricks has significantly advanced the stature and importance of the School’s clinical investigation capabilities by successfully recruiting highly regarded tenuretrack faculty in the Department of Clinical Studies, and by establishing an innovative partnership with Pfizer Animal Health to support clinical trials.

Dr. Hendricks' work has been widely published in peerreviewed journals, including the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Journal of Applied Physiology, and she is frequently invited to lecture at major conferences around the world. Dr. Hendricks is a recognized expert in the field of sleep and sleep disorders, and has recently published pioneering studies on the molecular biology of sleep in fruit flies in the highimpact journals Nature Neuroscience and Neuron.

In 1979 and 1980, Dr. Hendricks earned her VMD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. She also carried out her residency and postdoctoral fellowship at Penn. She has a BS in biology and psychology from Yale University.

Williams JA., Sathyanarayanan S., Hendricks JC., Sehgal A. Interaction between sleep and the immune response in Drosophila: a role for the NFkappaB relish Sleep 30: 389400, 2007.

Koh K., Evans JM., Hendricks JC., Sehgal A. A Drosophila model for ageassociated changes in sleep:wake cycles.[see comment] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103: 138437, 2006.

Hendricks JC. Broadening the public perception of veterinarians: can we keep what we've got while transforming ourselves? Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 33: 5934, 2006.

Hendricks JC. Shaking up sleep research Nature Neuroscience 8: 7035, 2005.

Hendricks JC. Mining the mouse mutant goldmine for sleep phenotypes.[comment] Sleep 28: 38991, 2005.

Hendricks JC., Sehgal A. Why a fly? Using Drosophila to understand the genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep Sleep 27: 33442, 2004.

Hendricks JC. Invited review: Sleeping flies don't lie: the use of Drosophila melanogaster to study sleep and circadian rhythms. [Review] [170 refs] Journal of Applied Physiology 94: 166072; discussion 1673, 2003.

Hendricks JC., Kirk D., Panckeri K., Miller MS., Pack AI. Modafinil maintains waking in the fruit fly drosophila melanogaster Sleep 26: 13946, 2003.

Hendricks JC., Lu S., Kume K., Yin JC., Yang Z., Sehgal A. Gender dimorphism in the role of cycle (BMAL1) in rest, rest regulation, and longevity in Drosophila melanogaster Journal of Biological Rhythms 18: 1225, 2003.