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The College was well-represented at the 2001 Forum of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine held May 23 to 26 in Denver, Colo. Program presenters and their topics included:
From veterinary clinical medicine, Drs. Nicole Ehrhart and Barbara Kitchell: "Issues for multimodality"( the "best" way to treat various kinds of cancers); Dr. Tim Fan: "Mast cells. Future directions: What's new and exciting"; and Dr. Barbara Kitchell: "A case-based approach to oncology."
From veterinary pathobiology, Dr. Walter Hoffmann: "The past, present and future directions of clinical enzymology" and "Alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes: Perspectives on their biochemistry, assay methodology, and clinical application"; and Dr. Philip Solter: "Current concepts on the mechanism of appearance of diagnostic enzymes in blood" and "Factors affecting the correct clinical interpretation of serum enzymes."
Among the faculty and residents who presented research abstracts were, from Food Animal Medicine and Surgery, Drs. Peter Constable, Marie-France Haddad, Dawn Morin, Dusty Nagy, and Geoffrey Smith, and from Equine Medicine and Surgery, Drs. Jonathan Foreman and Thomas Goetz.
Dr. Val Beasley, veterinary biosciences, gave a keynote address at Tufts University and lectured in a conservation medicine course last spring. He also lectured recently at the University of Connecticut.
Dr. Alexander Biondo, veterinary pathobiology graduate student, lectured at five universities in Brazil earlier this year. He also conducted research during a 3-week stay in the country.
Dr. Robert Clarkson, veterinary clinical medicine, was invited to spend a month at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, as a guest of the Swiss National Science Foundation to study spin relaxation in MRI contrast agents. Dr. Clarkson was recently promoted to full professor.
Dr. Peter D. Constable, veterinary clinical medicine, visited the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, as a DLT Smith Visiting Veterinary Scientist in February. There he gave three lectures, including one on the future of food animal education. He also served on the USDA Animal Health and Well-Being grant review panel in Washington, DC, in May.
Dr. Louis-Philippe de Lorimier, medical oncology resident, gave a presentation on radiation oncology in veterinary medicine, and nuclear medicine in veterinary medicine at a conference of the Association of Quebec Radiology Technicians in June. While in Canada he also spoke at Montreal's biggest oncology service, Hopital Notre-Dame, and to the veterinary school at the Universite de Montreal.
Dr. Roberto Docampo, veterinary pathobiology, gave an invited presentation entitled "The acidocalcisomal H+-translocating pyrophosphatase of trypanosomatids and apicomplexan parasites" and participated in a roundtable on pyrophosphatases at the Second International Meeting on Inorganic Pyrophosphatases held in Seville, Spain, in May.
Dr. Larry Firkins, veterinary pathobiology, received a Certificate of Academic Excellence when he graduated with a master's in business administration degree from the University of Illinois in May.
As a swine Extension veterinarian and as a member of Illinois's emergency animal disease management task force specializing in foot and mouth disease, he also presented a talk on the basics of foot-and-mouth disease at the international Summit on FMD held in Chicago in June.
Dr. Paul A. Gerding, Jr., veterinary clinical medicine, presented an all-day seminar to members of the Norwegian Eye Panel on "Diagnosis and treatment of selected corneal diseases in dogs and cats" in Oslo, Norway, in April. He also spent a week at Hannover University College of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover, Germany, lecturing on ophthalmic topics and performing outpatient examinations at the university clinic. Dr. Gerding hopes to strengthen his department's relationship with Hannover University through research and study collaborations as well as exchanges for veterinary students.
Dr. David Gross, head of veterinary biosciences, was elected as a Fellow of the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society.
Dr. Larry Hansen, veterinary biosciences, spent a week in Brno, Czech Republic, in June to organize a PCB workshop for May 2002; the 2002 workshop will be a follow-up to one held in Lexington, Ky., in April of last year. Dr. Hansen and co-organizer Larry Robertson, of the University of Kentucky, will publish a book from the first workshop in October.
Dr. Wanda Haschek-Hock, veterinary pathobiology, was inducted as the president of the Comparative and Veterinary Specialty of Toxicology at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting in San Francisco in March.
Dr. Patricia Heine, veterinary biosciences, was invited to discuss the state of the science and research needs concerning the pathophysiology of obesity-associated diseases at a joint meeting of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Md., in May. She spoke on the effects of sex steroids on adipose tissue.
She and Dr. Paul Cooke, also of veterinary biosciences, as well as collaborators from the Universities of Missouri and Colorado, presented an abstract at a meeting of the Endocrine Society in Denver in June.
Dr. Rex Hess, veterinary biosciences, gave an invited lecture entitled "Estrogen and male reproductive function" at a symposium of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation in Toronto, Canada, on March 16. He also delivered the lecture "The female hormone controls male fertility: estrogen and fluid reabsorption in the epididymis" to the Reproductive Biology Program at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, in April and to the Cell Biology Program at the University of Idaho in May.
Dr. Lois Hoyer, veterinary pathobiology, accepted an invitation to serve a 3-year term, beginning in July, as a regular member of the Bacteriology and Mycology Study Section (2), Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health. cations. This committee evaluates technical issues and makes recommendations to VMCAS.
Dr. Shin-Hsuan Vincent Hsiao, veterinary pathobiology graduate student, received the $20,000 Toxicologic Pathology/Abbott Laboratories Clinical Research Award in support of his studies.
Dr. Richard Isaacson, veterinary pathobiology, is leaving the College to become the head of the pathobiology department at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Barbara Kitchell, veterinary clinical medicine, gave a seminar at North Carolina State University on telomerase inhibition; attended, with graduate student Nick Dervisis, resident Dr. Louis-Phillipe de Lorimier, visiting scholar Dr. Marina Mardano from Italy, and oncology intern Dr. David Lurie, the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in New Orleans and presented a research poster there; and reviewed grants for the Vaccine Sarcoma Task Force in March.
In April she gave the keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Veterinary Dermatology in Norfolk, Va, and spoke to the Interior Veterinary Medical Association in Fairbanks, Ala.
In May she lectured at the first annual Canine Genomics Conference, held in Keystone, Colo.
Dr. Christine Merle, Continuing Education-Public Service, along with Urbana veterinarians Drs. Jill Richardson and Mary Welle, was featured on Parkland Community College's Pet Forum in April and May. They discussed preventive health care for pets, including reptiles and birds, and avoiding common household poisons. The program encouraged listeners to use the University of Illinois CVM Web site and ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center Web site as reputable sources for pet health information.
Dr. Gay Miller, veterinary pathobiology, presented "Characterization of odor and gas emitting potential from mechanically ventilated deep and shallow pit swine finishing buildings in Illinois" at the 6th International Livestock and the Environment Symposium held in Louisville, Ky.
Lou Ann Miller, with the Center for Microscopic Imaging, graduated from Parkland Community College in Champaign with an associate's degree in Computer Science/Web Design.
Dr. Allan Paul, veterinary pathobiology and coordinator of Continuing Education-Public Service, spoke on parasites of public health importance at the 2001 Immunization and Communicable Disease Conference, held June 5 and 6 in Springfield, Ill., and sponsored by the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Public Health Association.
Dr. Rhonda L. Schulman, veterinary clinical medicine, lectured on diabetes mellitus and icteric cats to the Kankakee Valley Veterinary Association in April. She recently received a grant from the Winn Feline Foundation to study inhaled asthma medications in cats.
Dr. Eric Vimr, veterinary pathobiology, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Dr. Srikanth Yellayi, veterinary biosciences graduate student, presented an abstract on genistein and thymic atrophy at the June conference of the Endocrine Society, ENDO 2001, held in Denver, Colo. His abstract was chosen for inclusion in a Research Summaries Book, one of 150 selected from the 2,400 accepted for presentation.
Correction: The story on international students published in the Spring issue of Veterinary Report erroneously reported where Dr. Shola Sulaimon received a master's degree. Her M.S. is from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.
Students Attend SAVMA Symposium
Illinois sent 85 veterinary students to the 2001 national symposium of the Student American Veterinary Medicine Association, hosted by Iowa State University in March. Their trip was made possible in part through a College auction and raffle, which brought in enough to cover registration fees. The Hill's Feeding Committee paid for lodging, the College chartered a bus, and the Hill's Feeding Committee and Purina donated additional funds to reimburse students who drove. Approximately 1300 students from across the country attended the symposium, which featured a variety of lectures, athletic and academic competitions, socializing, and networking.
Phi Zeta Inducts Twenty-Seven
The University of Illinois Mu Chapter of the Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society held its annual initiation and awards banquet on March 24. Dr. Joe Jeffrey, a veterinarian, rancher, and leading "fence post authority," was the keynote speaker.Members of the class of 2001 newly inducted into the organization were: Tobey Blondin; Kimberly Carlson; Jill Demers; Colin Dwyer; Renee Gamboa; LeAnn Gruber; Beth Guerra; Amy Janda; Jamie Kenyon; Aimee Norris; Elizabeth Pocius; John Spence; and Brett Ziegenbalg. Fourth-year students must rank in the upper 25 percent of their class to be eligible for membership.
Inducted from the class of 2002 were: Wes Baumgartner; Mark Bobofchak; James Buhl; Laura Riordan; Pamela Rothenbaum; Christine Slagel; Tamara Sloan; Emily Swank; Karen Turner; and Amy Waggoner. These students were ranked in the upper 10 percent of their class.
In addition, clinical assistant professor Dr. Rhonda L. Schulman, veterinary pathobiology graduate students Drs. Vincent Hsiao and Allison Vitsky, and dermatology resident Dr. John C. Angus were inducted into Phi Zeta that night.
Matches Ignite Veterinary Careers
Congratulations to College graduates on their success in the 2001 Internship and Residency Matching Program: Kendra Barry ('01), Angell Memorial Animal Hospital; Kim Carlson ('01), The Animal Medical Center; Kristin Clements ('01), University of Illinois; Seth Ghantous ('00), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Justin Hayna ('98), University of Minnesota; Annmarie Hill ('01), VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital; Victor Liu ('01), Angell Memorial Animal Hospital; Kathleen Sennello ('98), University of Illinois; Anne-Marie Sostrin ('01), The Animal Medical Center; Timothy Storms ('94), University of Tennessee; Robert Vasilopulos ('94), Mississippi State University; India Wood ('00), The Ohio State University.