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Faculty Promotions
Congratulations to the following faculty members, who will receive promotions in rank effective August 21:
Dr. Ralph Hamor, veterinary clinical medicine, clinical associate professor
Dr. Lois Hoyer, veterinary pathobiology, associate professor
Dr. Jianyong Li, veterinary pathobiology, associate professor
Dr. Sandra Manfra Marretta, veterinary clinical medicine, professor
Dr. Susan L. Schantz, veterinary biosciences, professor
Dr. Eric R. Vimr, veterinary pathobiology, professor
Dr. Matthew A. Wallig, veterinary pathobiology, professor
Medical Oncology Group on the Move
Drs. Barbara Kitchell, veterinary clinical medicine, and Ted Valli, veterinary pathobiology, were the organizers for the Veterinary Cancer Society Mid-Year meeting, held in Galena, Ill., in April. Speakers from the College included Drs. Casey Cadile, Sarah Charney, Louis-Philippe de Lorimier, Nikolaos Dervissis, Ashwathy Gangadharan, Pamela D. Jones, Barbara E. Kitchell, Carlos E. Souza, Ted Valli, and Amy Wiedemann. The meeting’s topic was lymphoma.
Dr. Kitchell also attended the annual American Association for Cancer Research meeting in early April in San Francisco.
She and Dr. de Lorimier gave presentations at a small animal veterinary conference hosted by the Academie de Medecine Veterinaire du Quebec in Montreal in late April. While there, Dr. Kitchell gave a presentation on translational research to the pediatric hemato-oncology section of Montreal’s largest pediatric hospital.
Drs. Kitchell and Dervissis also gave continuing education presentations to veterinarians in Greece this summer.
At the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine meeting in Dallas, Texas, Drs. Kitchell, de Lorimier, and Timothy Fan spoke, as did head oncology technician Nancy George.
In mid February, Drs. Fan, Jones, and de Lorimier presented 6 hours of continuing education to veterinarians belonging to the Chicago Suburban Pathology Group.
The oncology group had five review papers published in the December and January issues of the journal Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Indrani C. Bagchi, veterinary biosciences, presented a lecture entitled “Steroid Hormone Regulated Gene Networks in Implantation” at a conference on Reproductive Tract Biology in New London, Conn., in July. She and Dr. Paul Cooke, also veterinary biosciences, spoke at an international symposium on Embryo Implantation: Cellular Changes from Bench to Bedside in Uncasville, Conn., in July.
Dr. Linda Berent, who completed a PhD degree in veterinary pathobiology this year, was a recipient of a C. L. Davis Foundation Student Scholarship Award. She was nominated by the College for superior achievement and performance during pathology training.
Dr. Robert Clarkson, veterinary clinical medicine, reviewed proposals for the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., in April. In May he served as a member of an advisory panel at Cornell University to help develop an NIH-funded electron paramagnetic resonance center. He also gave an invited lecture at a conference entitled “Lanthanide Chemistry for Diagnosis and Therapy,” in Heidelberg, Germany, in July.
Dr. Paul Cooke, veterinary biosciences, and graduate student Dr. Srikanth Yellayi were widely cited in the news media after the publication of their study showing thymic and immune changes in mice given large doses of the soy isoflavone genistein, which is present in infant soy formulas. Among the many media outlets where the news appeared were the BBC World Service, CBS Radio, the Chicago NBC television affiliate, the New York Times, the London Times, The National Post from Toronto, and the Toronto Globe Mail. The Associated Press story appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Baltimore Sun.
Dr. David Gross, head of veterinary biosciences, organized, obtained funding for, spoke at, and chaired a symposium entitled “Mechanisms of Estrogen Effects on the Cardiovascular System” as part of the Experimental Biology 2002 meetings held in April in New Orleans. Nearly 18,000 people attended the meetings.
Dr. Gross’s talk addressed “Mechanisms of estrogen protection during global myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.” Other speakers were Dr. K. Kauser of Berlex Biosciences, Dr. D.J. Lefer of LSU Medical Center, Dr. G. Gorodeski of Case Western Reserve University Hospital, and Dr. R.A. Khalil from the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Dr. Larry Hansen, veterinary biosciences, was one of the organizers of the Second PCB Workshop: Recent Advances in the Environmental Toxicology and Health Effects of PCBs, held over four days in May in the Czech Republic. The workshop emphasized the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe and received sponsorship from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Dr. Wanda Haschek-Hock, veterinary pathobiology, was elected as secretary-treasurer of the Society of Toxicologic Pathology. The 3-year term began at the group’s annual meeting in Denver in June. At the annual meeting in April of NC-129 Mycotoxins in Cereal Grains, a regional research project, she was elected to serve as secretary for 2003, vice-chair for 2004, and chair for 2005.
Dr. Rex Hess, veterinary biosciences, gave an invited lecture entitled “Estrogen regulates male fertility: how toxicology led to this discovery” at the University of Texas at Austin in January. He was also invited to lecture on estrogen and male fertility at the Università degli Studi di Bari, in Bari, Italy, in February.
Dr. Christine Merle, Continuing Education-Public Service, served on an “Ask The Vet” panel at the Chicagoland Family Pet Show in March. She gave a talk entitled “Take this Job and Love It!” at a meeting of the Illinois Student Chapter of the AVMA in March, and helped members of the Class of 2002 with resumes and job contracts. She was recently accepted into the membership of the newly formed Association of Veterinary Practice Management Consultants and Advisors.
Dr. Gay Miller, veterinary pathobiology, taught part of the basic epidemiology course in the USDA’s Veterinary Services Careers Program in Fort Collins, Colo., in May.
Dr. John Silbernagel, who left the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine this summer after completing a small animal surgery residency and serving as a visiting clinical instructor, was elected to the board of directors of the American Animal Hospital Association in March in Boston at the group’s annual meeting.
Dr. Richard Wallace, Continuing Education-Public Service/Extension, lectured on lameness and hoof health to three groups of veterinarians in Japan in September. The groups included the Japan Animal Practitioners Association Annual Meeting and the Production Medicine Research Forum.
Dr. Herb Whiteley, dean, has been named to serve on the Illinois State Board of Health. The Board advises the department director on public health policy, emergencies, and control of health hazards; reviews department rules and program proposals; and recommends solutions to public health issues.
Thirteen members of the Class of 2003 took part in “AfriVet,” a wildlife veterinary course in South Africa, last summer. They received classroom instruction in capture pharmacology and darting techniques, wildlife diseases, physiology, conservation, and necropsy techniques. Extensive fieldwork involved Cape buffalo, rhinoceroses, and antelope, as well as necropsies on crocodiles and giraffe. The experience was sponsored in part by the Hill’s Student Feeding Committee.
The students who went are Megan Borgstrom, Adrienne Coleman, Lindsay Crippen, Jodi Duberstein, Chris Gensler, Dana Hall, Jarrett Jack, Karen Jagschitz, B.J. Kimmel, Sarah Klunk, Brad Pikas, Heidi Richardson, and Sarah Smith.
Members of the Christian Veterinary Mission Fellowship, a non-denominational organization including veterinary students, faculty, and staff, visited Haiti in December 2001. They spent three days at the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, teaching and training veterinary agents in basic physiology of monogastric and ruminant animals and in public health. They also conducted community clinics, performing physical exams and surgeries, giving vaccines, and providing other care and education, for two days.
Among those who went were Jessica Graves, Mandy Huiser, Kyla Kuhns, Jessa Ovitt, Nathan Ovitt, Patrick Rodawald, and Emily Swank. Faculty advisers on the trip were Dr. E.J. Ehrhart, of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, and Dr. Ralph Hamor, veterinary clinical medicine.
The group sends its thanks to the Hill’s Student Feeding Committee, SORF, and the supportive students and faculty at the College.
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