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nation, with attendees representing 23
veterinary colleges around the nation
last year alone. Wigington is a strong
supporter of and volunteer for the annual
student-run Open House which
started in 1993 and brought in 13,000
visitors from across the state in 2011.
He was a key player in maintaining the
Large Animal Hospital in 2005, when
the state transformed it into a SURGE
hospital to house and treat human pa-
tients due to the influx of sick patients
evacuated from the path of Hurricane
Rita. This experience initiated his
interest in emergency response, and
since then he has helped develop the
evacuation plans for Brazos County.
One of his most recent accomplishments
came when he and several other
members of the CVM developed the
Veterinary Emergency Team, a team
of first responders for disaster sites in
Texas, to ensure the safety and health
of animals involved.
“My history with the CVM
is long and deep,” Wigington
said. “I have seen the CVM
transform from an all-male
college to almost 75 percent
of the college population
represented by females. I
have interacted with over
5,000 graduating veterinarians
who have become leaders
in the veterinary profession
around the state, nation, and
world. I have also worked
with thousands of veterinarians
throughout the state
and beyond for continuing
education efforts during my
years in the Large Animal
Hospital. I have seen a lot
of changes and growth in
the past 41 years, and I feel
this will give me a boost to
keep the innovations coming
Faculty/Staff Focus
Zoran appears on CTE’s ‘Teaching for Tomorrow’
After winning the University Teaching
Award from the Texas A&M Association
of Former Students in 2011, Dr.
Deb Zoran, associate professor at Texas
A&M College of Veterinary Medicine &
Biomedical Sciences (CVM), appeared
on a segment of Teaching for Tomorrow.
Teaching for Tomorrow, presented
by the Texas A&M University Center
for Teaching Excellence and the Division
of Marketing & Communications,
is a series of online videos. The series
showcases a professor from each of the
nine colleges interacting with students
in teaching situations inside and outside
the classroom.
Zoran’s video, which premiered
May 31, 2011, featured her discussing
a diabetic cat with students in rounds
instead of in a typical classroom style
lecture setting.
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“Since they had a lot of different
people with different teaching styles,
I said, ‘Quite frankly, I’m not that
unique in the classroom, but I do enjoy
the small-group teaching that we do in
our rounds session with the fourth year
Sam Wigington
Dr. Deb Zoran
students. So that is what we selected for
our video,” Zoran said.
Zoran said it was a huge honor to be
selected from her department and college
because there are so many excellent
teachers in the college as a whole.
“The College of Veterinary Medicine
& Biomedical Sciences is blessed with
many highly honored teachers, so for
me to be singled out, first and foremost,
is very humbling,” she said.
Zoran credits her teaching style to
the many mentors she observed over
the years and to her mother, a grade
school teacher.
“I have been blessed to have many
people I could learn from as role models
for many different teaching styles,
and this has helped shape me. It is to
those people, I owe this award,” Zoran
said.
at the CVM as the trends continue to
change in veterinary medicine, as they
do in all industries.”
As the director of facilities, Wigington
reports to Green and helps her formulate
and implement facility policies
and procedures, establish performance
goals and measures to evaluate the
success of facilities maintenance and
planning, control expenses for facilities
and equipment, and lead strategic
planning for facilities and major equipment
purchases.
“I have high expectations for this position
as I do for the CVM itself,” Wigington
said. “The CVM continues to be
one of the frontrunners in veterinary
education in the nation, but I want the
CVM to be the premier learning facility
in all aspects of veterinary education
in the nation. I have many ideas,
and I believe we have the gumption
to back them up. I feel that with the
great knowledge that our faculty, staff,
and students provide, we have the tools
to become the predominant learning
facility in the nation.”
Wigington is currently working with
Green and Heather Quiram, assistant
to the director of facilities, on expanding
the Small Animal Hospital and
building the new teaching facility.
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