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Dr. Gary Althouse, veterinary clinical medicine, presented at the 14th International Congress on Animal Reproduction in Stockholm, Sweden, in July. In September he traveled to Australia and spoke at the 16th International Pig Veterinary Society Conference, the Victoria International Pig Forum, and the Pig and Poultry Production Institute Forum.
Dr. Althouse was also recently appointed to the Food Animal Species Focus and Porcine Species Focus committees of the American College of Theriogenologists.
Dr. Peter Bahnson, veterinary clinical medicine and pathobiology, and Dr. Fred Troutt, veterinary clinical medicine, spoke at the National Conference on Animal Production in St. Louis in September.
Drs. Keith Bailey, Roberto Guzman, Evelyne Polack, Alan Pessier, Laura Zwick, and Laura Gumprecht recently passed the American College of Veterinary Pathologists' certifying examination and are now diplomates of the ACVP.
Dr. Gordon Baker, veterinary clinical medicine, presented four papers at the December meeting of the French Equine Veterinary Association in Strasbourg, France. Two of the papers were on newer equine dental techniques and two were on airway surgery.
Dr. Tom Burke, veterinary clinical medicine, has been awarded a life membership in the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians. Dr. Burke is only the 14th person to have received this award since the organization's inception in 1960. His plaque reads: "In recognition of outstanding service and contribution to the zoo veterinary profession." Dr. Burke has held every elected office in AAZV, including president in 1988, and currently serves as historian.
Dr. Robert Clarkson, veterinary clinical medicine, was the plenary speaker at a conference on lanthanide chelates in medicine. The conference was organized by the European Union Commission on Science and held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September. Dr. Clarkson also gave a talk at the 19th Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine held in Florence, Italy, in August.
Dr. Sonia Crochik, veterinary clinical medicine, organized and participated in a polycystic kidney disease ultrasonography clinic for Persian cats at the college in September. She also lectured on ultrasonography at Parkland College for an annual conference and spoke at a swine workshop in November.
Dr. Roberto Docampo, veterinary pathobiology, was invited to chair a special emphasis panel of the National Institutes of Health to review proposals concerning tropical medicine research centers in November. In December he served as a peer review panel member for the fiscal year 2002 intramural Military Infectious Diseases Research Program proposal review.
Dr. Nicole Ehrhart, veterinary clinical medicine, chaired the Surgical Oncology Forum at the 2000 Surgical Forum of the American College of Veterinary Surgery and lectured in the surgical oncology session. She also attended a course in minimally invasive surgery at the 2000 ACVS Scientific Meeting. In December she served as program faculty for the Companion Animal Skeletal Fixation Course. In January Dr. Ehrhart will lecture in surgical oncology at the North American Veterinary Conference.
Dr. Yulin Fang, veterinary clinical medicine, presented his research, "Analysis of MMPs and TIMPs in Canine Osteosarcoma and Stroma," at the 20th annual Veterinary Cancer Society Conference.
Dr. Aswathy Gangadharan, graduate student in veterinary clinical medicine, gave a presentation at the 20th Annual Veterinary Cancer Society Conference in Pacific Grove, Calif., in October.
Dr. Stephen Greene, veterinary clinical medicine, presented two papers on work involving monitoring the processed EEG (bispectral index or BIS) in anesthetized dogs: in September at the World Congress of Veterinary Anesthesiologists in Berne, Switzerland, and in October at the Scientific Meeting of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists in San Francisco. In February he will speak on anesthesia at the Western States Veterinary Conference.
Dr. Greene and Dr. Joseph Impellizeri, veterinary clinical medicine, have recently begun offering acupuncture service to the clients of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. They hope to treat chronic pain and other conditions that acupuncture may improve. Appointments can be made directly with either doctor, and referrals are welcome.
Dr. Rex A. Hess, veterinary biosciences, has spoken near and far on estrogen and male fertility recently. He was invited to give the main lecture at the Congresso IntegraŤ‹o da Morfologia Luso-Brasileira, held in Brazil in August; he spoke at the International Center for Biotechnology and Eurosterone Symposium in Sweden in September; in October he spoke at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana and at the American Society of Nephrology meeting in Toronto, Canada; in November he lectured in Australia at the Boden Research Conference 2000, the Cooperative Research Centre for the Biological Control of Pest Animals, and the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research.
Dr. Richard E. Isaacson, veterinary pathobiology, was an invited speaker at a symposium on emerging infectious diseases, held at Ohio State University in October. He was also an invited speaker at a workshop entitled "Epidemiologic Approaches in Food Safety" in Birmingham, Ala, that month.
Dr. Uriel Kitron, veterinary pathobiology, was a co-author on a paper on Aedes albopictus and La Crosse virus in Illinois that was named Outstanding Research Paper by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The other authors were Jack Swanson, IDPH; Dr. Linn Haramis, IDPH and an adjunct VP faculty member; and Mary Lancaster, VP graduate student. The paper, published in the Journal of Medical Entomology, reported on a collaborative study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Kitron was also invited to speak at a workshop on pathogen and parasite threats to birds on the Galapagos Islands at Princeton University in October. At the 21st International Congress of Entomology in Brazil in August, Dr. Kitron organized and convened a symposium on the landscape ecology of vector-borne disease. He was also recently appointed to the editorial board of Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases.
Dr. Stephen Kneller, veterinary clinical medicine, spoke on thoracic radiology to the Kankakee Valley Veterinary Medical Association in November.
Dr. Tomas Martin-Jimenez, veterinary biosciences, presented a paper at the 8th International Congress of the European Association of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology in Jerusalem, Israel, in August.
He also recently passed the diplomate examination of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacolgy and Toxicology, making him the only person so credentialed in both the United States and Europe. Dr. Martin currently serves as a councilor of the American Association of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics and on the credential committee of the American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology.
Dr. Milton McAllister, veterinary pathobiology, was invited to lecture at the 18th meeting of the European Society of Veterinary Pathology in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in September. The title of the presentation was "The role of veterinary pathology in herd health management."
Dr. Sheila McCullough, veterinary clinical medicine, spoke on fungal disease at the International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society meeting in Orlando, Fla. She and Dr. Mark Raffe, veterinary clinical medicine, were in charge of wet and dry labs at the meeting. Dr. McCullough is the ACVIM program director for the University of Illinois, currently researching fungal disease and monitoring glucose levels in felines.
Dr. Gavin Meerdink, veterinary diagnostic laboratory and veterinary biosciences, presented a series of seminars for the Saskatchewan Veterinary Medical Association and the University of Saskatchewan in September.
Dr. Christine Merle, continuing education and public service, spoke on preventive care for athletic dogs for the Champaign-Urbana Dog Club in November.
Dr. Gay Miller, veterinary pathobiology, spoke at the International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics in Colorado in August.
Dr. Randall S. Singer, veterinary pathobiology, was named a recipient of the fifth annual Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. He was recognized "for outstanding research in improving our understanding of the epidemiology and ecology of bacterial resistance to antimicrobials in farm animals." Dr. Singer was nominated for the award by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Deoki N. Tripathy, veterinary pathobiology, gave a talk and two poster presentations at the 13th International Poxvirus and Iridovirus Symposium in September in Montpellier, France. Dr. Tripathy also recently presented at the U.S. Animal Health Association's Transmissible Diseases of Poultry Meeting in Birmingham, Ala.
Deni Benns, fourth-year veterinary student, completed internships at a mixed-animal practice in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, and at one equine and one small-animal practice in Salisbury, England, during an off-block rotation. Among the highlights of her trip were seeing an equine patient that hadn't responded to medical therapy improve with acupuncture and physical therapy, and monitoring the dog, as he recovered from anesthesia, of the musician Sting. "No, I didn't get to meet Sting," she reports. The Hill's Student Feeding Committee provided partial funding for her trip.
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Fourth-year veterinary students Robert Cotthaus (right) and Jason Keller (left) spent 10 days at an externship at the Erie County (NY) Fair, which, with over a million in attendance, is the third largest county fair in the country. The two lived on the fairgrounds and were on call 24 hours a day. They attended to 41 animal patients, including a bird, cattle, dogs, goats, horses, pigs, and sheep. Dr. R.W. Dygert ('64, center), who administers the fair's veterinary program, commended these Illinois students as "exceptional."
Renee R. Gamboa, fourth-year veterinary student, was accepted into a post-doctoral training program at the University of Washington at Seattle in comparative medicine. It is a one-year internship, three-year residency program in clinical and research-based laboratory animal medicine. The Hill's Student Feeding Committee provided partial funding for her trip.
April Johnson, third-year veterinary student, was featured in the Barstow, Calif., Desert Dispatch regarding her research last summer. The project, funded by the U.S. Army, looked at whether captive tortoises spread respiratory infections to the endangered desert tortoise.
Jill Patronagio, at right, third-year veterinary student, spent 10 days in New Mexico last summer with the Remote Area Medical program. She met 20 other veterinary students, spent 10 nights on a perpetually deflating air mattress, visited five reservations, and worked on a team that performed 250 spay and neuter surgeries--including her first two neuter surgeries. It was an experience she wishes she'd had sooner and one she'd "highly recommend to any first or second year student with a sense of adventure and humor." The Hill's Student Feeding Committee provided partial funding for her trip.
Illinois DVM students fared well in the Student Case Competition at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, held in Rapid City, S.D., in September.Fourth-year student Adam Jackanicz received the $500 first-place award with his paper titled "Ongoing Investigation of a Working Dairy Farm." Jackanicz's paper prompted the planning committee to change the format of the scoring system. The change will ensure that epidemiologic, herd-based papers are evaluated equally with those focused on clinical case reports of one animal.
Fourth-year student Sarah Probst and third-year student Kelly Ballinger received third place and $200 for "Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches to Septic Arthritis in a Simmental Bull." Faculty members from veterinary colleges across the country judged the event.
For the third year in a row, veterinary students who belong to the Illinois Veterinary Herpetological Society traveled to the annual conference of the Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians. Fourth-year student Todd Gray; third-year students Laura Arington, Wes Baumgartner, Katie Heinz, and April Johnson; and second-year student Nicole Johnson-Bailen attended this year's conference, which was held in conjunction with the Wild West Veterinary Conference in Reno, Nev., in October. Dr. Sara Luttrell ('00) was also in attendance. Students met herpetology veterinarians from all over the world and, for the first time, helped run audiovisual equipment for much of the conference. The Hill's Student Feeding Committee and the Student Travel Fund assisted financially with the trip.
Four members of the Holistic Club--first-year students Leila Marcucci, Emily Marhevsky, Jennifer Phillips, and Beth Rhyne--attended the Sixth Annual Midwest Holistic Veterinary Conference in Madison, Wis., in November. They heard presentations on pet food labels by Scott Pollak, the raw food diet by Dr. William Pollak, acupuncture and reiki by Dr. Deb Mitchell, and homeopathy by Dr. Christina Chambreau. The Hill's Student Feeding Committee helped fund the trip.
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Six veterinary students served as obstacle judges at the September 24 Judged Pleasure Ride, sponsored by Illinois Walking Horse Association to raise funds for veterinary scholarships. The IWHA began sponsoring a veterinary scholarship in 1993. Front, from left: Cyndi Loomis, Jodi Lane, and Jessica Patterson; back: Jeneen Morrill, Rachel Boyce, IWHA members Shirley Miller, Carol Mills, and Jane Mills; and Jennifer Hott.
Student AAEP Activity Roundup
The student chapter of the American Association of Equine Practitioners had a busy fall semester.In September they held their fall conference, which featured Dr. Tracy Turner, an expert on lameness and hoof imbalance from the University of Minnesota. In October their annual Ride-a-Thon raised over $1,000 for the emergency equine fund at the Large Animal Clinic.
AAEP also recently cosponsored a fundraiser picnic with the Production Medicine Club. In addition to food and games, Drs. Anna Rštting and Marie-France Hadad, both residents in the Large Animal Clinic, spoke about internships and resident programs here and abroad.
"In between all this we have offered a dentistry wet lab and are running the ICU/colic teams and the Trakehner mare program," says group president Kathryn Wotman, a third-year veterinary student. About 15 members of the group attended the AAEP national convention in San Antonio, Texas, in November.