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Dr. Val Beasley, veterinary biosciences, in February presented a paper entitled “Comparative Toxicology of Mosquito Control Strategies” at the West Nile Virus Action Workshop held in Tarrytown, N.Y.He presented the keynote address, “Purposeful Careers for Veterinarians in Wildlife and Ecosystem Health,” at the Special Species Symposium 2000 hosted by the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in March and April. The symposium coordinator was René Varela, a Pennsylvania veterinary student and participant in Envirovet ’98. The other speakers included Illinois alumni Dr. Mark Stetter (’88), veterinary operations manager with Disney’s Animal Programs in Orlando, and Dr. Robert Poppenga (’78), an associate professor of toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Robert B. Clarkson, veterinary clinical medicine, was elected to continue until August 20, 2003, as the College representative on the campus’s Bioengineering Executive Committee.
Dr. Irene Cooke, who lectures in pharmacology at the College, has been named director of the Division of Environmental Health and Safety. She had served as an assistant director of that unit for the past six years.
Drs. Paul Cooke, Larry Hansen, and Sue Schantz, all of veterinary biosciences, presented invited lectures at a meeting entitled “Recent Advances in the Environmental Toxicology and Health Effects of PCBs” in Lexington, Ken., in April.
Sharon Davis, the first Illinois student to jointly pursue a veterinary degree along with a master’s in business administration, reports that although the two programs are very different, the synergy between them is marvelous. She has been working on cost recovery and repricing projects for the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and is helping to create an MBA internship at a large Illinois production facility.
Drs. Nicole Ehrhart, veterinary clinical medicine, and E.J. Ehrhart, veterinary pathobiology, presented “Diagnosis and Treatment of the Surgical Oncology Patient” at the March meeting of the Kankakee Valley Veterinary Medical Association.
Jean Fisher, veterinary technician, and her sons Josh and Jesse took high honors at the National Specialty competition for shelties. Their dog Georgia competed in agility, obedience, herding, and the breed ring and was ranked third nationally for herding.
Dr. Joseph Harari, veterinary clinical medicine, is the editor of a new small animal surgery book, Veterinary Surgical Secrets, published in May by Hanley and Belfus. The text contains contributions from all members of the College’s small animal surgery section—Drs. Elaine Caplan, Nicole Ehrhart, Cathy Greenfield, Ann Johnson, Lisa Klopp, Sandra Manfra, Mary Quinn, Kristi Sandman, John Silbernagel, and C.W. Smith—as well as from Dr. Sheila McCullough, small animal medicine, and Dr. Leigh Lamont, anesthesiology.
Dr. Rex Hess, veterinary biosciences, presented an invited lecture entitled “Estrogens and Male Reproduction” at the 1st European Congress of Andrology, in L’Aquila, Italy, in March. In April he was an invited member of the Fourth Annual Workshop entitled “Frontiers in Estrogen Action,” held in Palm Beach, Fla.
Dr. Lois Hoyer gave an invited presentation entitled “Detection and Comparative Analysis of Differential Gene Expression” at the Microbial Functional Genomics Symposium in April. In May she convened a session called “Host-parasite interactions in fungal infections” and also gave a talk on Candida albicans at the American Society for Microbiology 100th General Meeting in Los Angeles.
Dr. Mark Kuhlenschmidt, veterinary pathobiology, was promoted to full professor.
Dr. Yong-Hoon L. Lee, anesthesiology resident, spoke in May to the comparative pathology faculty at Columbia University on “Systemic and Regional Hemodynamic Effects of Dopamine, Dobutamine, Dopexamine and 5% Dextrose in Sevoflurane Anesthetized Dogs.” In July he will join the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech.
Dr. Sara Luttrell, a 2000 graduate of the College, spent part of her senior year in extern-ships at Wildlife Safari, a 600-acre drive-through park in Winston, Ore., and at the Indianapolis Zoo. At both sites she was involved with all aspects of veterinary care, including field immobilization and field examinations and surgeries in Oregon and conducting pregnancy ultrasound exams on dolphins at the zoo. One of the highlights of the Oregon experience was working with a 40-year-old rhino named “Shoddy.”
Tara Ooms, third-year veterinary student, won first prize from the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology for a paper she wrote with Dr. Safdar A. Khan, instructor in veterinary biosciences and veterinarian at the National Animal Poison Control Center. The paper, “Acute Guarana and Ma Huang Toxicosis in Dogs: A Retrospective Study of 45 Cases,” is being reviewed for publication in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Dr. Ronald D. Smith, veterinary pathobiology, received an Excellence Award from the American Distance Education Consortium at its March meeting in Washington, D.C. Dr. Smith was honored for his pioneering work using the World Wide Web for education in veterinary medicine and food safety.
Dr. Pratik Singh, doctoral candidate in veterinary pathobiology, was recently honored for three years of service at the Cosmopolitan Club, the oldest international organization on the Urbana campus. The Cosmopolitan Club cultivates social and intellectual relationships among persons of different nations through a variety of activities and services.
Dean Ted Valli, Dr. E.J. Ehrhart, and Dr. Barbara Kitchell were invited to present at the NIH symposium on “Cells of the Marginal Zone: Origins, Function and Neoplasia” in April. The presentation was on marginal zone lymphomas in dogs.
Dr. Geof Smith, resident in food animal medicine and surgery and veterinary pathobiology graduate student, received the award for best journal manuscript by a graduate student from the Comparative and Veterinary Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology at its annual meeting in March.
Agnes Van Volkenburg, fourth-year veterinary student, has been appointed to represent Poland on the International Committee of the Animal Welfare Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that aims to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.NOTE: The Spring 2000 issue of Veterinary Report contained an item that misrepresented the duties of Agnes Van Volkenburg as kennel manager at the Chicago Animal Care and Control Clinic. Veterinary Report regrets the error.