Laura Selmic

Ohio State University

Dr. Laura Selmic earned her veterinary degree from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), University of London, in 2004, where she also completed a small animal rotating internship. She then pursued residency in small animal surgery at Texas A&M University, followed by a surgical oncology fellowship at Colorado State University in 2011. Selmic also earned a master's in public health with a focus on applied biostatistics in 2013. She served as an assistant professor of small animal soft tissue and oncologic surgery at the University of Illinois. In 2018, she joined Ohio State University, where she is part of the integrated oncology and surgery teams as a surgical oncologist. Her research focuses on intraoperative imaging for detecting residual cancer, cancer epidemiology, and treatment outcomes. She leads ongoing clinical trials evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of optical coherence tomography (OCT) for real-time surgical margin assessment.