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Oncology Service Activities
Members of the oncology service in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital have been very active. Pursuing diplomate status in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Dr. Amy Wiedemann recently passed the general examination and Drs. Sarah Charney and Louis-Philippe de Lorimier passed the oncology certifying examination.
In July Drs. Charney, de Lorimier, and Tim Fan along with client counselor specialist Elizabeth Kennedy presented four hours of information on oncology and grief to animal owners at the Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago.
Drs. Louis-Philippe de Lorimier, Hugues Lacoste, Sarah Charney, Geoffrey Hutchinson, and Melissa Endicott plugged teaching hospital services at the Pug Party on October 4 in Chicago.
In September Drs. de Lorimier and Fan presented updates in medical oncology at a meeting of the Eastern Illinois Veterinary Medical Association in Champaign.
Also in September, there were 12 presentations from representatives of the College at the annual meeting of the Veterinary Cancer Society, held in Madison, Wis. Presenting were faculty members Drs. Charney, de Lorimier, Fan, and Christine Warzee and post-doctoral research associate Dr. Wiedemann from veterinary clinical medicine; Drs. Anne Barger and Ted Valli from veterinary pathobiology; and residents Drs. Lynda Beaver, Melissa Endicott, David Heller, Hugues Lacoste, and Carlos Souza.
In October the oncology group had a presence at the Pug Party in Chicago and the Annual Medallion Rottweiler Meeting in Wheaton.
Dr. Leanne Alworth, veterinary clinical medicine, recently became a diplomate in the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.
Dr. John Angus, resident in veterinary clinical medicine, completed the examination and certification to become a diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Dermatology.
Dr. Cassandra Brown, resident in veterinary clinical medicine, passed the general examination of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
Dr. Peter Constable, veterinary clinical medicine, spoke on calf diarrhea at the 5th Congresso Nazionale Multisala SIVAR (Italian Veterinary Society for Production Animals) in Cremona, Italy, in May. In June he spoke at the 21st American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Conference in Charlotte, N.C., and at the Gordon Research Conference on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Deneen Cordell, small animal anesthesia technician, lectured in August on perioperative pain management and common local blocks and supervised a 3-hour wet lab to 40 veterinarians, assistants, and technicians at Joliet Junior College. Her presentation was sponsored by the Companion Animal Pain Management Consortium at the teaching hospital and Pfizer.
Dr. Roberto Docampo, veterinary pathobiology, made a number of presentations in Brazil last summer, including at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; University of Santa Ursula, Rio de Janeiro; State University of Campinas; and University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto; and culminating with an invited presentation at the 4th Congress in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
He also received the 2003 Medical Scholar Program Advisor of the Year Award from the Medical Scholar Program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award recognizes those faculty mentors making exemplary contributions to the graduate and medical education of the MSP students.
His laboratory’s findings on the presence of acidocalcisomes in bacteria, published this year in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, were noted prominently in Nature, Science, New Scientist, and many lay media publications.
Dr. Paul Gerding, veterinary clinical medicine, gave eight presentations on ophthalmology topics at the Central Veterinary Conference in Kansas City in August.
Dr. Tony Goldberg, veterinary path- obiology, was featured on two Earthwatch Radio segments that aired on NPR stations nationwide on largemouth bass virus and other emerging infectious diseases.
Dr. Luis F. P. Gondim, graduate student in veterinary pathobiology, was invited to speak at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists in Halifax, Canada on “The Enigma of the Neospora caninum Oocyst.”
Dr. Wanda Haschek-Hock, veterinary pathobiology, presented the keynote address, entitled “Toxicologic Pathology in the 21st Century,” at the Australian Society of Veterinary Pathology Annual Meeting, in Menangle, New South Wales, in April. She also gave an invited presentation on toxicity in the respiratory system at the meeting.
In June she was honored for contributing to the membership growth of the Society of Toxicologic Pathology.
Dr. Rex Hess, veterinary biosciences, was an invited speaker at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology, held in Phoenix, Ariz., in March. In April he was an invited speaker at the Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and the International Congress on Biology of Reproduction 2003, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
He was also asked to publish a review article in the online journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology.
Kanjana Imsilp, veterinary biosciences, received a student scholarship to attend Dioxin 2003, a conference held in Boston, Mass., in August. He gave two presentations and served as co-chair of the ecotoxicology session at the meeting. In March he presented a poster at the 42nd Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr. Gary Iwamoto, veterinary biosciences, was the adviser to kinesiology graduate students Brian Ragan and Amanda Nelson, who won the doctoral and master’s poster competitions, respectively, at the annual meeting of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association in St. Louis in June. Only five entries for each category are selected from all poster submissions to be judged. It was an unusual feat for one university to bring home both awards.
Dr. Steven Marks, veterinary clinical medicine, was an invited speaker at the International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society Meeting in September. Other College clinicians presenting at that meeting were Drs. Marc Raffe, Jennifer Roberts, and Sheila McCullough.
Also in September Dr. Marks was an invited speaker at Purdue University’s Veterinary Fall Conference. He has been appointed co-chair of American Animal Hospital Association Annual Meeting Planning Committee, chair of the Credentials Task Force of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and member of the board of directors of the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum in Champaign, Ill.
Dr. Christine Merle, Office of Public Engagement, presented a seminar on staff benefits and compensation at the annual meeting of the Veterinary Hospital Management Association in Chicago in October.
Dr. Carla Morrow, doctoral student in veterinary biosciences, successfully passed the certifying examination to become a diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology. Dr. Morrow is the first to complete the recently rejuvenated Veterinary Toxicology Residency Program under the direction of Dr. Petra Volmer, assistant professor.
In June Dr. Morrow and fellow toxicology residents Camilla Lieske and Tina Merola, along with Dr. Volmer, hosted a tour of the poisonous plant garden for 4-H livestock project members, at the request of the Champaign County Cooperative Extension.
Dr. Tanasa Osborne and Gaurav Tyagi, doctoral students in veterinary pathobiology, received travel awards to attend and present posters at the Society of Toxicologic Pathology Annual Meeting held in June in Savannah, Georgia.
Dr. Robert Prosek, resident in veterinary clinical medicine, passed the general examination of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
Dr. Susan L. Schantz, veterinary biosciences, gave invited talks at the European Teratology Society meeting held in Elsinore, Denmark, in September and at the Dioxin 2003 International meeting held in Boston in August. She was also invited to serve on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Perchlorate Exposure.
Dr. Cliff Shipley, veterinary clinical medicine, played an important role in the discovery of a gray wolf in central Illinois. He examined the wolf in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, obtained appropriate samples to confirm its identity, and pursued documentation when a number of other experts did not believe it.
Dr. Deoki Tripathy, veterinary pathobiology, received the 2003 Phibro Animal Health Excellence in Poultry Research Award from the American Association of Avian Pathologists in recognition of sustained excellence in poultry research. He also served as one of the moderators at the combined meeting of the AAAP and the World Veterinary Poultry Association held in Denver during the American Veterinary Medical Association Annual Convention. In July he was an invited speaker on genetically modified vaccines at the 3rd International Veterinary Vaccines Conference, held at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Dr. Fred Troutt, veterinary clinical medicine, was appointed by the Executive Board of the American Veterinary Medical Association to serve on the newly established AVMA Strategic Planning Committee.
Dr. Robert Twardock, professor emeritus of veterinary biosciences, is one of four editors of Equine Scintigraphy, a new textbook from the publishers of Equine Veterinary Journal, that is the first ever devoted entirely to this topic. It covers the basic science of radiopharmaceuticals and scintigraphy in the horse, including sections on how to conduct examinations and interpret images, an atlas of normal and abnormal patterns of uptake, and chapters devoted to Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, etc. For more information, visit the publisher’s Web site: www.evj.co.uk.
Jason Bleedorn, Class of 2005, completed a summer internship project for Pfizer Laboratories-Ann Arbor this summer. At the end of the internship he presented a poster on morphometric analysis of kidney hypertensive damage in mice.
Dana Marsh, Class of 2006, was chosen as one of 15 new Ballard Students serving as Morris Animal Foundation representatives at 31 North American veterinary colleges. During her two-year term she will educate Illinois veterinary students and faculty about the Foundation’s work through presentations, bulletin boards and exhibits at school-sponsored events.
Romanie Walter, Class of 2005, was invited to speak at the 2003 Fall Conference of the Student Chapter of the American Association of Equine Practitioners at Kansas State University. She presented her philosophy of business education for veterinary students and described the Veterinary Practice Builders Association, which she co-founded at Illinois. Walter also co-chaired the SAVMA Economic Symposium held at Illinois October 17 and 18.
Students Thank Hill’s
It’s Not Just a Service Experience, It’s an Adoption! Six students on the Arizona RAVS trip found lifetime companions in the clinics. Pictured here from the Class of 2005 at Illinois are Elysia Schaefer and Amanda Daum, second and third from left, and Sara Fiocchi and Rachel Beard, at right. The other adopters are veterinary students from Penn.Eighteen University of Illinois veterinary students from the Classes of 2005 and 2006 volunteered their time to the Rural Area Veterinary Services trip, August 17 to 24. As part of a team of 42 volunteers under the direction of Dr. Eric Davis, the team worked in communities on the White Mountain and San Carlos Apache reservations in eastern Arizona. Through the help of student and veterinary staff volunteers, the Humane Society of the United States Rural Area Veterinary Services provides free, convenient, quality veterinary services to animals in economically disadvantaged communities. These trips also provide excellent training for veterinary students. Under the supervision of veterinarians and technicians, students perform surgeries, monitor anesthesia, and recover animals, among other tasks. They would like to thank the Hill’s Student Feeding Committee for support on this excellent learning experience.—Sara C. Fiocchi, Class of 2005
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