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Dr. Peter Bahnson, veterinary clinical medicine, was invited to give a lecture on Salmonella epidemiology and control in pork at the 4th International Symposium on the Epidemiology and Control of Salmonella and Other Foodborne Pathogens in Pork, in Leipzig, Germany, in September. He also gave a presentation on assessing risk factors for Salmonella shedding on farms to the veterinary faculty at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in August and to the Danish Zoonosis Center in September.
Drs. Gordon Baker and David Freeman, both veterinary clinical medicine, presented papers at the 2001 American Association of Equine Practitioners convention in San Diego, Calif., in November. Dr. Baker was also invited to speak at the Swiss 7th Congress of Equine Medicine and Surgery in Geneva in December.
Dr. Val Beasley, veterinary biosciences, gave a presentation on sexual differentiation in cricket frogs at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Baltimore, Md., in November. In October he lectured on "Poisonous Plants and Blue-Green Algae, Major Body System Effects in Domestic Animals" at Ohio State University.
Dr. Linda Berent, graduate student in veterinary pathobiology, passed the clinical pathology boards of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists.
Dr. Sarah Charney, medical oncology fellow, presented an abstract on intracavitary carboplatin and mitoxantrone chemotherapy at the Veterinary Cancer Society Meeting in Baton Rouge, La., in October. Dr. Charney earned her DVM at Illinois in 1998 and completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at the University of Missouri in 1999. She then completed a residency in oncology at The Animal Medical Center in New York City, where she won the Connie Liefer Memorial Research Award for a study of cyclophosphamide-associated sterile hemorrhagic cystitis.
Dr. Robert Clarkson, veterinary clinical medicine, was part of a National Institutes of Health team sent to review the Center for In Vivo Electron Spin Resonance at Dartmouth Medical School, in Hanover, N.H., in September. In recognition of his contributions to their program, Dartmouth Medical School subsequently made Dr. Clarkson an adjunct professor in the Department of Radiology.
Dr. Roberto Docampo, veterinary pathobiology, received a $5,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Visiting Professorship in Microbiological Sciences Award to visit Lehman College, City University of New York, in April.
He spoke at the Second International Meeting on Inorganic Pyrophosphatases, in Seville, Spain, in May and gave a conference at the IX Argentine Congress of Microbiology in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October.
He was invited to serve as a member of a Special Emphasis Panel of the National Institutes of Health to review applications for the Tropical Medicine Research Centers. He was also invited to serve as a peer review panel member for the FY03 intramural Military Infectious Diseases Research Program.
Dr. Florence Dunbar, adjunct professor of ethics and jurisprudence, was a guest lecturer on "Shakespeare and the Law" at the University of Florida in October.
Dr. Thomas Eurell, veterinary biosciences, passed the certification examination and is a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology. A focus of Dr. Eurell's research program is the development of alternative, in vitro methods for toxicity testing.
Dr. Larry Firkins, swine Extension veterinarian and director of the research stations, participated in a disaster exercise involving an outbreak of foreign animal disease on October 30 in Macoupin County. The exercise was designed to test direction of operations, communications, requests for State assets, technical abilities, mapping of affected areas, and dissemination of public information at an outbreak site. Dr. Firkins has been working with the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency for the past three years in developing the Illinois Emergency Animal Disease Response Plan.
Craig Flowers, director of computing services, was named to the campus Information Technology Advisory Board, which was chartered by the campus chief information officer.
Dr. Jonathan Foreman, veterinary clinical medicine, gave several lectures on equine protozoal myelitis and other equine neurological diseases to the Mississippi Valley Veterinary Medical Association (VMA). In November he was invited to work as an attending veterinarian at the three-day event at Galway Downs in Temecula, Calif., where he also gave a lecture to the Southern California VMA on equine pain management.
Dr. Rex Hess, veterinary biosciences, gave the lecture "Estrogens and Fertility in the Male" at Tulane University, New Orleans, La., in October. He was also invited to give a workshop on genomic vs. non-genomic steroid actions at the Centre for International Meetings on Biology in Madrid, Spain, in December.
Dr. Doug Hutchens, veterinary pathobiology, spoke on trends in equine parasitology at seminars in Dallas, Texas, Ocala, Fla., St. Paul, Minn., and Lexington, Ky., last fall.
Dr. Barbara Kitchell, veterinary clinical medicine, spoke on oncology topics at a meeting of the Brazilian National Veterinary Congress in Salvadore, Brazil, in November. In October, she and Dr. Pam Jones, oncology fellow, gave a poster and lecture, respectively, at the Purina Nutrition Forum. Also in October, she and many members of her section attended and presented abstracts at the 21st Annual Veterinary Cancer Society Conference in Baton Rouge, La.
Dr. Stephen Kneller, veterinary clinical medicine, gave a 3-hour workshop on abdominal radiology to the Kankakee Valley VMA at Joliet Junior College in November.
Dr. Sheila McCullough, veterinary clinical medicine, was chosen by the senior class to give the welcoming address and hood the students at the 2001 graduation.
Dr. Christine Merle, Continuing Education-Public Service, gave lectures on marketing, communication, and interpersonal skills for the Joliet Junior College Veterinary Technician Program in September and October. She also spoke on marketing and practice development for the South East Missouri VMA in September and the Eastern Illinois VMA in December. In November she gave a presentation to the Illinois Professional Dog Groomers Association.
She attended the October Veterinary Practice Management Symposium at Michigan State University as a representative from the University of Illinois to help develop a model curriculum for teaching business and life skills to veterinary students.
Dr. Gay Miller, veterinary pathobiology, presented at the 82nd Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, in St. Louis, Mo., in November. She also presented at the Illinois Food Safety Symposium 2001: A Food Safety Odyssey, in St. Charles, Ill., in September.
Dr. Robert Prosek, cardiology resident, received the Northern Illinois VMA graduate student grant award for $1,000 to study the effects of amlodipine on naturally occurring mitral regurgitation in dogs.
Dr. Art Siegel, veterinary clinical medicine, participated in a meeting of the standards subcommittee of the American Veterinary Medical Association's Informatics Committee and helped to organized and attended a workshop on the use of the SNOMED nomenclature in veterinary medicine.
Dr. Susan Schantz, veterinary biosciences, presented a talk on impairments in memory and learning in older adults exposed to PCBs from contaminated fish at the annual meeting of the International Association of Exposure Assessment in Charleston, S.C., in November. She also served on an expert panel on the opportunities for PCB-related health studies at the Centers for Disease Control in Anniston, Ala.
Dr. John Silbernagel, small animal surgery resident, was elected to the American Animal Hospital Association's Board of Directors. The position will become official during the association's annual meeting in March 2002.
Dr. Ronald D. Smith, veterinary pathobiology, in November hosted Dr. Laura Lopez-Rebollar, a research veterinarian from the Onderstepoort (South Africa) Veterinary Institute. Dr. Rebollar is the project leader on surveys dealing with the import of ticks via livestock trade and sales and the related tick-borne diseases found in local wildlife. She completed a training program in basic epidemiology, EpiInfo, and EpiMap. Her visit was sponsored by the USDA's Cochran Fellowship Program.
Dr. H. Fred Troutt, veterinary clinical medicine, was elected to serve on the American Veterinary Medical Association's Council on Education, representing large animal clinical science.
Dr. Kenneth Welle, adjunct assistant professor of veterinary clinical medicine and owner of All Creatures Animal Hospital in Urbana, will speak at the 11th Annual WEZAM Exotics Conference to be held April 13 and 14 at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. For more information, call Maureen Ryan at 608/332-4769.
Tracy Nicole Frey, third-year veterinary student, participated in two externships last summer.
She had a two-week surgical preceptorship at the Animal Medical Center in Manhattan, N.Y. Her time there was very intense, often working 12-hour or longer days. "I was allowed to scrub in and assist on a number of procedures, ranging from simple spays and lumpectomies to radical mastectomies and thoracoscopies," she says.
She also worked at Long Island Veterinary Specialists, a referral hospital and critical care facility. She was very impressed with the desire of the clinicians there to teach at every opportunity, and says the atmosphere was more laid-back and relaxed than at the AMC.
The Hill's Student Feeding Committee supported her experiences.
Erin McDermott, second-year student, with support by Hill's Student Feeding Committee attended a short course in zoo medicine at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn. The class included elephant medicine, reptile surgery, remote delivery systems, and additional topics.
Matt Nelson, fourth-year student, spent a week in October at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver, Colo., where he worked in medicine, surgery, radiology, and emergency. Support for this learning experience came from the Hill's Student Feeding Committee.
Tara G. Ooms, fourth-year student, completed a senior externship at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease, located in Frederick, Md. She worked with the Army Veterinary Corps in one of only two facilities in the entire country designed to handle bio-level safety four organisms, such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
"I had great experiences in laboratory animal medicine, getting additional training working with mice, guinea pigs, and three species of monkeys," she says. "I got to see what life in the Army Veterinary Corps is like and got to work with fabulous veterinarians and a lot of great animals."
Ooms notes that the Army is always looking for students interested in lab animal medicine or preventive medicine.
Her externship was funded in part by the Hill's Student Feeding Committee. Ooms has also served as Waltham Student Representative, vice-president of ISCAVMA, and secretary of the Oncology Club.
Lisa Scott, second-year student, was named Ballard Student representative from the College, one of 29 North American institutions involved with the program. She will educate the student body and faculty about the role of the Morris Animal Foundation, a 53-year-old nonprofit organization that has funded 1,000 companion animal and wildlife health studies with funds exceeding $25 million.
The Student Chapter of the American Holistic Veterinary Medicine Association is sponsoring the Alternative Therapies Conference on February 2 and 3. The conference, which receives major sponsorship from the Hill's Student Feeding Committee, is open to veterinarians and veterinary students. More information is available at www.cvm.uiuc.edu/ceps/altmed.html.
Current veterinary students joined faculty and alumni in attending a joint conference of zoo, wildlife, and exotic veterinary organizations in Orlando, Fla., last fall.
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