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Internships give ABAC students competitive edge on vet school applications

Internships give ABAC students a competitive edge on vet school applications

From Staff Reports The Tifton Gazette September 7, 2023

TIFTON—Biology and animal science majors at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College gain a competitive edge when applying to veterinary school due to a partnership with the University of Georgia Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.

Dr. Jenny Harper, professor of biology at ABAC’s School of Arts and Sciences, said that that the internship is funded through a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant opportunity designed to streamline and track the acceptance rate of ABAC students into veterinary colleges.

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Dr. Francisco (Paco) Uzal ACVP Distinguished member

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Governor Shapiro Recognizes Exemplary Commonwealth Employees for Outstanding Achievements and Dedication to Public Service

Governor Shapiro Recognizes Exemplary Commonwealth Employees for Outstanding Achievements and Dedication to Public Service

October 23, 2023

Harrisburg, PA – Today, Governor Josh Shapiro presented the Governor’s Awards for Excellence to 54 Commonwealth employees from eight state agencies and thanked all state employees for their dedication to public service.

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2023 Northeast US Animal Health Association Meeting

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NEUSAHA 2023 Agenda 3.27.23

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JVDI in Focus- April 2023

 JVDI in Focus

Our April focus is an open-access article appearing in the upcoming May issue: “Lesions and viral loads in racing pigeons naturally coinfected with pigeon circovirus and columbid alphaherpesvirus 1 in Australia” by Babu K. Nath, Shubhagata Das, Naomie Tidd, Tridip Das, Jade K. Forwood, Shane R. Raid.

J Vet Diagn Invest 2023;35(3). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10406387231156839

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MSU VDL welcomes inaugural Diagnostic and Client Services Veterinarian (DCSV)

MSU VDL welcomes inaugural Diagnostic and Client Services Veterinarian (DCSV) 

On January 17, 2023, Dr. Rachel Whitesell, DVM joined the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as the Lab’s inaugural diagnostic and client services veterinarian.

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Functions of AAVLD Committee

Functions of Committees

Committees serve multiple functions that are essential to the AAVLD mission.  This includes dissemination of the latest scientific information that will advance the many disciplines engaged with diagnostic medicine, including:

  • technological or methodological advances in the disciplines
  • new or changing disease syndromes and how they are detected.
  • sharing of one’s expertise and experience with colleagues, students, and trainees
  • sharing one’s expertise when called upon to aid stakeholders, and policy and decision makers.
  • recognizing excellence in others to encourage ongoing excellence in our disciplines.
  • supporting the annual meeting, the organization’s Journal (JVDI), Newsletter and list-serve to ensure good communication, collaboration, training, and cooperation.
  • provide leadership to ensure a successful scientific session of their discipline at the annual meeting.

Committees may identify, address, and resolve specific issues related to diagnostic laboratory medicine. Committees may, as a function of their investigation of the diagnostic challenges associated with a particular disease, present scientific and educational data for further discussion within their committee meetings with the expected outcome of reaching a greater level of confidence and understanding of the diagnostic criteria and methodologies that are most appropriate to determine the presence or absence of the disease in question. These outcomes are communicated to the Association membership via their annual committee report.

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Save the Date- NEAAVLD and NEWORVP

Take a look, the MC l LMS is now here!

 

 

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JVDI in Focus- February 2023

JVDI in Focus

Our February focus is an article appearing in JVDI’s March issue, “Immunohistochemical analysis of expression of VEGFR2, KIT, PDGFR-β, and CDK4 in canine urothelial carcinoma” by Laura C. Setyo, Shannon L. Donahoe, Patrick L. Shearer, Penghao Wang, Mark B. Krockenberger.

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JVDI Call for submissions on Lagomorph disease investigations

Varioius diseases affect domestic and wild lagomorphs and challenge veterinary laboratory diagnosticians regularly. Domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are bred for different purposes including meat or fur production, laboratory research investigation, or simply as companion animals. Neoplasms, infectious diseases, and several background lesions are important conditions in this group. Wild lagomorphs, including rabbits of different genera (Oryctolagus, Sylvilagus, Brachylagus), hares/jackrabbits (Lepus spp.), and pikas (Ochotona spp.), are very common in different parts of the world and are affected regularly by outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases or exposed to environmental toxins.  

We are inviting submissions to a JVDI special section on Lagomorph disease investigations to be guest edited by Drs. Javier Asin, CAHFS, UC Davis; Denise Imai-Leonard, Comparative Pathology Laboratory, UCDavis; and Fábio Abade dos Santos, National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV), Oeiras, Portugal.

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AVMA State diagnostic laboratories protect all creatures, great and small

October 10, 2022

The caseload at the Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has more than doubled since the 1990s, but the personnel has dropped by about half with the use of new technologies.

Yet, staffing continues to be a big challenge at the OADDL to meet the ever-increasing number of cases—with the main caseload coming from swine, cattle, chickens, and horses, in that order.

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AVMA Taking a fresh look at Diagnostic Laboratories Part 1

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