Consulting Professionals

Dr. Jim Roush is the small animal surgery professor and section head at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at K-State. He earned his veterinary degree from Purdue University, and completed his residency and masters of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Roush is board certified with the American College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Bringing 20 years of experience to each case, his interests are small animal orthopedics and neurosurgery. His areas of research include bone healing and blood supply and osteoarthritis and articular cartilage healing. Dr. Roush’s clinical service duties are exclusively in small animal orthopedics and neurosurgery. He has been recently involved in several investigations assessing the effects of new commercial pharmaceuticals and other substances on lameness in dogs.

Dr. Laura Armbrust is an associate professor of radiology at the Kansas State University Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. She received her veterinary degree from Kansas State University and also completed her residency there. Dr. Armbrust is a board-certified radiologist with the American College of Veterinary Radiology.

Dr. Armbrust’s areas of research include pulmonary nodule detection in dogs utilizing CT, gall bladder muoceles in dogs, clinical reports associated with unique diagnostic findings, and MR imaging of equine limbs with osteoarthritis and angular limb deformity. She is interested in all modalities of diagnostic imaging including radiology, ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and nuclear scintigraphy. Dr. Armbrust enjoys the wide variety of patients imaged ranging from dogs, cats, and horses to exotic pets/zoo animals, food animals, and camelids.

Dr. David Biller is a professor and the section head of radiology at the Kansas State University Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. He obtained his veterinary degree from Auburn University and completed an internship at New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT, and his residency at The Ohio State University. Dr. Biller is a board-certified radiologist with the American College of Veterinary Radiology.

Dr. Biller’s areas of research include the use of diagnostic ultrasound in the diagnosis and evaluation of spontaneous animal disease and the study of polycystic kidney disease in cats. Dr. Biller's major clinical interest is diagnostic ultrasound of small and large animals.

Dr. Hanzlicek grew up in a rural, Midwest, farming community - Caldwell, KS. He received his Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences (Summa Cum Laude), Master of Biomedical Sciences (Summa Cum Laude), and Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine (Magna Cum Laude) from Kansas State University. After veterinary school, Dr. Hanzlicek went on to complete a small animal surgery and medicine internship at Texas A&M University. Immediately following, Dr. Hanzlicek returned to Kansas State University to complete a small animal internal medicine residency. Dr. Hanzlicek became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in August 2010.

Dr. Hanzlicek is currently an Assistant Professor of small animal medicine at the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University. Although Dr. Hanzlicek enjoys diagnosing and treating all types of medical conditions, his current areas of research include investigating small animal kidney and urinary, infectious, respiratory, and gastrointestinal disease. Outside of work, Dr. Hanzlicek enjoys spending time with his family and participating in essentially any outdoor sport.