Category: Member News

Thursday, June 15, 2023 – 10:47am CVM_entrance.png Three Cornell veterinary students have earned RED (Reducing Educational Debt) scholarships from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. The scholarship, in its third year of funding, was created to give rising third-year students tuition-free education for their final two years of veterinary school. John Grealish. Photo provided. The […]

Final Necropsy Findings for Beloved Mountain Lion P-22 Trina Wood June 14, 2023 P-22 was re-captured in April 2019 to replace the battery in his GPS collar. Photo: National Park Service When P-22 was captured and anesthetized last December by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and National Park Service (NPS), the outlook […]

Dr. Kathryn Wulster bills weighs the merits of using both modalities in examining bone.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 – 10:30am rose-photo-provided.jpg Rose’s Cornell veterinarians suspected she was suffering from atrial fibrillation, or AFib. This is an irregular heartbeat that impacts high performing horses like Rose and, if left untreated, can have secondary consequences. Photo: SportFot/Provided Rose, a nine-year-old warmblood mare, had just the right amount of energy and feistiness […]

Dr. Weihsueh Chiu, Lusie Ford, and Dr. Ivan Rusyn When Hurricane Florence hit the North Carolina coast in the fall of 2018, more than 30 inches of rain fell in some areas of the state. The resulting flooding was dangerous enough, but it unleashed a whole new threat when it caused dams to burst, letting […]

This year, four Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) faculty and staff members received honours during the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Faculty and Staff Awards evening on June 14.

Dr. Stuart Meyers receives Lifetime Achievement Award Trina Wood June 13, 2023 Erin Min Congratulations to Dr. Stuart Meyers for receiving the prestigious David E. Bartlett Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Theriogenology. Awarded annually by the Society for Theriogenology and the American College of Theriogenologists, the Bartlett Award serves to “recognize an outstanding […]

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 – 1:44pm Mishka and Aly 1.jpeg This news item will redirect to:  https://www.avma.org/news/wildfire-smoke-endangers-animal-health Is Scopes?: 

Thieman performs a minimally invasive surgery at the Small Animal Teaching Hospital. The introduction of endoscopy, a surgical procedure that uses cameras and instruments in a small incision rather than the large incisions required for open surgery, is one of the greatest successes in medical history. Before the introduction of endoscopy, large problems required large […]