$2500 Prize for Best Team Proposal The first annual University of Illinois Veterinary Hackathon, coming on Wednesday, October 10, will bring together dozens of divergent viewpoints to “hack” the intransigent problem of cats going outside the box. “Veterinarians are brilliant people,” says Dr. Aaron Smiley, chief of staff at Devonshire Veterinary Clinic in Anderson, Ind....
Dr. Lawrence Firkins Dr. Larry Firkins (DVM ‘86) is a professor and the associate dean for public engagement at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. Prior to joining the University in 1995 and serving as the director of research stations for six years, he spent nine years as a partner in a veterinary...
Dr. Sharon S. Wagner Dr. Sharon Wagner, DVM, Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer, an onsite ultrasound specialist, will be leading two workshops for 2018 Fall Conference: “Ultrasound Anatomy: Normal & Abnormal Findings” and “Physics, Transducers, and Knobology: Understanding Ultrasound.” Dr. Wagner has a degree in engineering physics and worked for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the...
Philip Bushby Dr. Philip Bushby, DVM ’72, is a board-certified veterinary surgeon who served on the faculty at Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine for 36 years. His primary focus has been spaying and neutering for 20 years. Dr. Bushby’s interest in shelter medicine and spaying and neutering dates back to his internship and...
Dr. Tisha Harper Dr. Tisha Harper is a board-certified small animal surgeon with special interest in orthopedics and rehabilitation. She graduated from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad West Indies, in 1995 and completed her surgical residency training at the VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in 2003. She is also a Certified Canine...
A year ago, Dr. Brendan McKiernan and I became the first U.S. veterinarians to perform a laser-assisted turbinectomy (LATE) in a dog. This procedure, pioneered by Dr. Gerhard Oechtering of Germany, addresses problems related to brachycephalic syndrome, namely, aberrant turbinates and increased mucosal contact points between mucosal surfaces of turbinates. In LATE, “hot” thermal laser...
Root canal therapy is a treatment alternative to extraction for patients with nonvital teeth. Nonvital teeth include discolored teeth and teeth with pulp exposure. Sometimes teeth that are neither discolored nor have pulp exposure are found to be nonvital based on radiographic evidence. Radiographic signs of a nonvital tooth include a wide and/or irregular pulp...
Dr. Reinhart is an assistant professor of veterinary clinical medicine. Tell us about your background. I’m a 2010 Illinois grad, I did my internship at Cornell, and my residency at Kansas State. I did 3 years at Wisconsin for my PhD and a clinical pharmacology residency. I also did some time on clinics as a...
In May, the ophthalmology faculty at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital provided free, ocular screening eye exams to qualified service and working animals as part of the National Service Animal Eye Exam Event, promoted by the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists and sponsored by Stokes Pharmacy. Board-certified veterinary ophthalmologists across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico...
Masses within the eye can be caused by many things, such as immune-mediated disease, cystic change, coagulopathies, infection, and neoplasia. The owner may bring the animal to you after noticing a dark spot within the eye, a change in the pupil’s shape or movement, a white or red appearance to the pupil, or signs consistent...