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Aesculapian 

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College of Veterinary Medicine 

Fall 2012/Winter 2013 

Vol. 13 , No. 1 

Picture Your Pet 

Finalists from our 

2012 Photo Contest 

Find out more about our 

cover dog, Hurley, on 

page 15. 

Also Inside: Student Finds Pathway to Research A Cat’s Eye View Summer in Bahrain

Aesculapian 

Fall 2012/Winter 2013 

Vol. 13, No. 1 

EDITOR IN CHIEF 

Kat Yancey Gilmore 

MANAGING Editor 

Jessica Luton 

Contributing Writers 

Jessica Luton 

Kat Yancey Gilmore 

Sarah Freeman 

James Hataway 

Taylor “Eve” Winkleman 

Photography 

Sue Myers Smith 

Christopher B. Herron 

Sarah Freeman 

Taylor “Eve” Winkleman 

Design 

Jessica Luton 

ASSISTANT COPY EDITORS 

Carlton Bain 

Sue Myers Smith 

Administration 

Michael F. Adams, President 

Jere W. Morehead, Provost 

Sheila W. Allen, Dean 

Gary Baxter, Director, Veterinary Teaching 

Hospital 

Kat Yancey Gilmore, Director, Public Relations 

Sarah Freeman, Director, Hospital 

Communications 

Kathy Bangle, Director, Veterinary External 

Affairs 

Carlton Bain, Assistant Director, Development 

Marti Brick, Director, Alumni Relations 

Aesculapian is published by the University of 

Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine’s Office 

of Public Relations for alumni and friends. 

Please send story ideas, class notes or letters to: 

Editor, Aesculapian 



Athens, GA 30602-7371 

or email: kygilmor@uga.edu 

Copyright © 2013, The University of Georgia 

No part of this publication may be reproduced 

without permission from the editor. 

The University of Georgia is committed to 

principles of equal opportunity and affirmative 

action. 

UGA College of Veterinary Medicine 

Alumni Association Board 

Flynn Nance, President 

Michael J. Topper, Immediate Past-President 

Chad Schmiedt, President-elect 

Doris Miller, Secretary-Treasurer 

Jon Anderson 

Stephen Arbitter 

Charlie Broussard 

Scott Bryant 

Rebecca Dixon 

Jamie Fleming 

Alan Herring 

Thomas Hutto 

Ginger Macaulay 

Catherine McClelland 

Jan Sosnowski Nichol 

Bill Seanor 

Sheila W. Allen, Dean; Ex officio 

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CVM student Erica Noland received the Morris Animal Scholarship 

last summer for her research proposal on canine cancer. 

A Message from the Dean 

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CollegeNews 

4 

4 News from the Veterinary Teaching Hospital 

5 A Cat’s View: Study Reveals World of Roaming Cats 

7 Deworming Drugs Led to Widespread Parasitic Resistance 

9 In Case of an Emergency: UGA Creates Emergency Pet Shelter Plans 

11 The Miracle of Rascal: One Owner’s Devoted Experience 

13 Picture Your Pet: Finalists from our 2012 Contest 

StudentNews 

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17 Student’s Externship in Bahrain Inspires Personal Essay, Scholarship 

25 Student News 

26 Our Student Ambassadors 

27 Students Participate in Science of Veterinary Medicine Symposium 

28 Recognitions from our 2012 Honors and Awards Banquet 

29 Morris Scholarship Helps Spur Student’s Interest in Research 

31 Welcoming the Class of 2016 

32 Omega Tau Sigma Hosting Grand Council 

Follow us! 

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A student’s externship to Bahrain inspires a photo essay and a plan for a scholarship. 

FacultyNews 

33 Faculty News 

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35 New model explains puzzling Lyme disease patterns 

35 Jackwood, Edwards appointed to endowed professorships 

35 Barsanti honored by Cornell CVM 

37 CVM researcher developing new mumps vaccine 

AlumniNews 

39 A Message from the President of the Alumni Association 

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40 Alumni Profile: Koren Moore Custer 

41 Class Notes 

43 Upcoming Continuing Education Schedule 

45 VMLC Groundbreaking 

46 Why I Give: Katie Beacham 

On the Cover: 

Hurley Luper’s photo 

was among the finalists 

selected from our 2012 

Picture Your Pet Photo 

Contest. Read Hurley’s 

story on page 15. Photo 

submitted by David and 

Iniray Luper. 

flickr.com/ugavetmed youtube.com/ugavetmed foursquare.com/ugavetmed

Dear Alumni and Friends of the College, 

As we settle into a new year, there is much to celebrate on the CVM’s horizon: 

• construction crews are scheduled to break ground on the site of our new Veterinary 

Medical Learning Center in March (we are still fundraising for this important 

project); 

• in a few weeks, we’ll gather to celebrate our 50th Annual Veterinary Conference & Alumni 

Weekend; 

• our first-year students are scurrying to plan our upcoming Annual Open House; 

• and, our Admissions Committee has just sent out acceptance offers to admit 102 more 

students into the Class of 2017! 

But as so many of you know so well, we have much to celebrate here on a daily basis – and, 

we strive to showcase some of our successes in each issue of our Aesculapian. This issue is no 

exception. Here’s a “peek” at some of the wonderful stories that I encourage you to read: 

• “The Miracle of Rascal,” an amazing tale of a Yorkshire Terrier who was hit by a pickup 

truck, yet survived. 

• Hard work, and not much summer play, may pay off big for canines – and hopefully 

humans, too – that suffer from malignant mammary cancer, thanks to Morris Animal 

Scholar Erica Noland (DVM ’14) and her mentors. 

• Now a second-year student, Eve Winkleman spent Summer 2012 working at an animal 

shelter in Bahrain. Her experience spurred her to find a way to help these animals in 

perpetuity. And her background as a photographer yielded thousands of photos for her 

memory – including some for our viewing pleasure. 

• An MRI to service large animals is among the latest technologies offered by our UGA 

Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH). Don’t miss our VTH update! 

• And, some of the top photos from our recent Picture Your Pet photo contest are on 

display in this issue, and on the walls of our VTH. 

In each Aesculapian, we feature a segment we call “Why I Give.” I am always inspired by the 

reasons people choose to support our College. This feature on Katie Beacham will warm your 

heart, as it reminds us that life is a gift, each moment is fleeting, and that quality time to say 

goodbye to our loved ones is among the greatest gifts of all. 

I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I did, and thank you, as always, 

for your dedication and support of our College. 

Sincerely, 

Sheila W. Allen 

Dean 

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The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

CollegeNews 

UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital Update: 

MRI, Endoscopy Towers and Lameness Locator 

Signal are our newest technologies 

Photo by Sarah Freeman 

The UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) is the proud home of 

several new technological advancements, including this in-house 

MRI to service large and small animals. 

By Sarah Freeman 

The UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) 

is the proud home of several new technological 

advancements, including an in-house MRI, which 

will service both small animals and horses. Four new 

endoscopy towers and an equine Lameness Locator were 

also recently purchased. 

The MRI, which was delivered with the help of a crane in 

early November and assembled indoors due to its massive 

12,400-pound weight, will be housed in the Large Animal 

Hospital in a former exam room retrofitted specifically for 

the equipment. The unit is a 1.5-tesla Siemens machine 

and is frequently found in human hospitals. 

“This MRI opens up a whole new service that we’ve 

never had before,” commented Shannon Holmes, DVM, 

a board-certified veterinary radiologist and assistant 

professor of diagnostic imaging. “To have an MRI inhouse 

to be able to do emergency MRIs, and the ability to 

do a horse, is a great addition to the services we offer. It 

opens up more properties compared with what we had 

before, too, including new neurological applications.” 

The VTH is also the owner of four new high-definition 

endoscopy towers that provide not only a clearer viewing 

area, but one that is larger, too. Using a 1080p resolution, 

these units are used by Zoological Medicine, Internal 

Medicine, Large Animal Surgery, and Small Animal 

Surgery for procedures including rhinoscopy, upper 

and lower GIs, biopsies, arthroscopy, laparoscopy, and 

thoracoscopy. 

The Large Animal Surgery and Equine Lameness 

services are now offering the technologies of the Lameness 

Locator to evaluate equine lameness. The Lameness 

Locator will add an objective analysis of the horse’s body 

movement to examinations for routine lameness. With 

the use of small inertial sensors, the Locator detects and 

quantifies asymmetry in the horse. The data is gathered in 

real-time and transmitted wirelessly to a tablet computer, 

which then allows for on-site analysis of the data. The 

system provides an analysis report that indicates which 

limb or limbs are involved, the magnitude of the lameness, 

and at which phase of the stride the horse experiences the 

most pain. 

“What I see as the most valuable use of the Lameness 

Locator is in the evaluation of low-grade, performancelimiting 

lameness, multi-limb lameness, and the objective 

evaluation of our diagnostic anesthesia,” said Large Animal 

Section Chief Randy Eggleston, DVM, a board-certified 

surgeon and clinical associate professor of large animal 

medicine. “The Lameness Locator is not meant to replace 

our skill as lameness diagnosticians, but instead to add 

an objective element to some of the more challenging 

lameness cases that we see.” 

All of these technologies, including the MRI, will move 

to the new Veterinary Medical Learning Center when 

it opens. In the meantime, these services are currently 

available to our clients and referring veterinarians. 

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CollegeNews 

A Cat’s View: Crittercams Study Reveals 

World of Roaming Cats 

By Jessica Luton 

A collaborative study led by Sonia M. Hernandez, 

DVM, PhD, DACZM, in partnership with the National 

Geographic Society, received national media attention in 

2012, from the likes of the New York Times, the Huffington 

Post, ABC News, NBC Nightly News, and NPR, just to 

name a few. 

The project aimed to show the secret lives of roaming 

domestic cats by training owners to use the National 

Geographic Crittercam, a camera worn comfortably 

around the cat’s collar. The result yielded more than 2000 

hours of data that gave researchers a sort of reality-TV-like 

look into the daily lives of domestic cats’ activities. 

Highlights from their findings include: 

• Only 44% of the cats hunted wildlife, with 

reptiles, mammals and invertebrates constituting 

the majority of suburban prey; only 30 percent 

made successful wildlife captures. 

• Cat age, sex, and time spent outdoors did not 

significantly influence hunting behavior. 

• 85% engaged in at least one risky behavior, 

including crossing roads (45%), encountering 

strange cats (25%), eating and drinking 

substances away from home (25%), exploring 

storm drain systems (20%), and entering 

crawlspaces where they could become trapped 

(20%). 

• Male cats were more likely to exhibit risky 

behavior than female cats; older cats exhibited 

fewer risky behaviors. 

Among the researchers’ surprises: Cats sometimes adopt 

a second set of owners, going into another household for 

food and affection. 

Researchers were also surprised by the hunting habits 

of the cats, said Hernandez. In particular, factors such 

as gender were surprisingly insignificant in predicting 

whether a cat was a hunter. And only a minority of the 

cats hunted, but the hunting habits of the cats are still 

significant for urban wildlife populations. 

“Probably the most surprising finding is that the most 

frequent prey were reptiles,” she said. “Birds and small 

mammals receive a lot of media attention and are more 

easily ‘noticed’ by owners (e.g., coming home to a pile 

of feathers) than a dead (and likely desiccated) lizard on 

the porch, so it makes sense. But reptiles play extremely 

important ecosystem functions (e.g., lizards consuming 

insects) in our backyards and should receive more 

attention.” 

The recent media attention, she added, was actually 

spurred by a press release from the American Bird 

Conservancy that used the results of the study to 

extrapolate the number of hunting cats in the country and 

its potential effect on bird populations. 

“We are happy that it has re-initiated a conversation 

about why we need to supervise our cats when they are 

outdoors for two reasons,” she said. 

First, cats that hunt are adding to all the other alreadypresent 

pressures on our urban wildlife, she said. For some 

people, urban wildlife is sometimes the only wildlife that 

they will get to see or experience and urban habitats may 

be the last frontier for some species, so it would be nice to 

keep it free of non-native predators. 

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Photos courtesy of kittycams.uga.edu 

“Second, no veterinarian will dispute that cats that 

live indoors or are supervised when outdoors live 

longer, healthier lives,” she said. “As a former clinician, 

first of small animals, I hated to see cats poisoned or 

hit by vehicles brought to the clinic. Later as wildlife 

practitioner, I felt it was unfair that so many critters 

would end up in the hospital with fatal injuries from 

cats.” 

The study is now looking for funding to apply this 

technology to study a colony of feral cats that are 

managed as a trap-neuter-release colony and whose 

manager is truly interested in knowing what the cats 

are doing. 

“We know there are behavioral differences between 

owned pet cats and feral cats and we would like to 

understand how that translates to their hunting 

behavior,” she said. “We are looking for other feral cat 

colony managers who would be willing to collaborate 

on this effort because this technology and its analysis 

is a very objective methodology and we are interested 

in bridging the gap between cat and wildlife activists 

and solid science.” 

Hernandez is an assistant professor of wildlife disease 

who is jointly appointed to the CVM’s Southeastern 

Wildlife Disease Study and the UGA Warnell School of 

Forestry and Natural Resources. Her co-collaborators on 

the project were: The National Geographic Society; John 

P. Carroll, professor of wildlife ecology and management 

at Warnell; and, graduate student Kerrie Anne Loyd. 

Sponsorship for the project was provided by: The 

National Geographic Society; Kenneth A. Scott 

Charitable Trust, a KeyBank Trust; the Morris Animal 

Foundation Veterinary Scholars Program; Oconee 

Rivers Audubon Society; the Warnell School of Forestry 

and Natural Resources; Pender Pet Caring Foundation. 

For More 

Information 

For more details on the study, 

including video footage and photos, 

visit: www.kittycams.uga.edu 

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CollegeNews 

Overuse of Deworming Drugs Led to 

Widespread Resistance Among Parasites 

By James Hataway 

long-forgotten foe is beginning to reemerge on 

A pastures and meadows around the world, and farmers 

are finding that they have no way to combat it. Parasitic 

worms infecting cows, sheep, goats and horses are 

becoming resistant to the drugs used to kill them, and if 

changes are not made in how the few remaining drugs that 

still work are used, there may be no way left to fight the 

growing threat, according to Ray Kaplan, a University of 

Georgia professor in the department of infectious diseases. 

Kaplan has studied drug-resistant parasites for 

years, and his findings recently published in the journal 

Veterinary Parasitology warn that the continued overuse of 

deworming drugs has the potential to create parasites that 

cannot be killed. 

“We’re already seeing the 

worst-case scenario playing 

out,” Kaplan said. “In goats 

particularly, which have the 

worst problems with parasites 

and drug resistance, we quite 

frequently see farms that 

have parasite resistance to all 

dewormers. Some of these 

farms reached the point where 

they no longer could control 

the effects of the parasites and 

decided to go out of business.” 

It wasn’t always this 

way. Forty years ago when 

deworming drugs were widely 

adopted by farmers and 

ranchers, the new treatments looked like a simple solution 

to an age-old problem. Parasites typically do not cause 

severe illness or death, but they do make animals grow 

more slowly and produce less meat, milk or wool. 

With the simple application of a drug, farmers were 

able to raise animals that were bigger, stronger and more 

productive. Veterinarians and parasitologists advised 

widespread use of the new drugs as a prophylactic. Rather 

than treating only the animals with heavy parasitic 

infections that were ill, farmers frequently started giving 

doses to all animals. 

The Haemonchus contortus, also known as the barber pole worm, 

shown with its eggs. Photo provided by the Kaplan Lab. 

“It was like a golden age where all of a sudden the 

parasites that farmers have been dealing with for so long 

were gone,” Kaplan said. “Our animals never looked better, 

they never produced better, and so it made sense to keep 

giving animals these drugs.” 

But as farmers reaped the benefits, parasites were 

slowly evolving immunity to the drugs. Eventually, the 

drugs stopped working, and farmers scrambled for new 

pharmaceuticals–or made cocktails comprised of several 

drugs to keep the worms at bay. 

Kaplan worries that if the industry continues 

to overuse the few remaining drugs that still work, 

widespread resistance will decrease the profitability of 

raising livestock and force 

more farmers out of business. 

To correct the problem, 

Kaplan says farmers must 

adjust their attitudes about 

parasites and make some 

fundamental changes to how 

they care for their animals. 

“We’re trying to change 

the paradigm of parasite 

control so that farmers are 

willing to accept a certain level 

of production loss in exchange 

for sustainability,” Kaplan said. 

“We need to use less of these 

drugs and use them more 

intelligently and selectively.” 

The mere presence of 

parasites in an animal is no cause for alarm. In fact, it is 

something Kaplan would like farmers to view as natural 

and normal. Most animals have only low-level worm 

infections, so rather than treating every animal to prevent 

the development of worms, Kaplan suggests reserving drug 

use only for those animals that develop large or dangerous 

infections. This will limit the number of parasites exposed 

to the drugs, and slow the development of resistance. 

Kaplan also suggests changing the ways in which 

farmers allow their animals to graze. The parasitic worms 

live in the gastrointestinal tract of livestock, and eggs are 

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passed in animal feces. The eggs hatch and develop into 

worm larvae, which then crawl onto the grass. Livestock 

become infected when they graze on the pasture and ingest 

the larvae. 

If animals are allowed to graze freely on large, open 

pastures, they will naturally tend to favor some segments 

of the pasture more than others. As they congregate more 

in those areas, they come in contact with more fecal matter 

and, consequently, more parasites, he said. 

A simple solution to this problem is to divide the 

pasture into segments with fencing and to periodically 

rotate animals to new grass. The new areas have fewer 

parasites, and many of the parasites left behind on old 

pasture will die naturally before the animals return. 

“This decreases exposure,” Kaplan said. “Although it’s 

the same number of animals on the same amount of land, 

by rotating pastures, the animals are less exposed to the 

parasites and have less need for treatment.” 

These methods have proven successful in farms 

Kaplan has visited where parasite drug resistance was 

extremely high, and he hopes that they serve as an example 

Haemonchus contortus worms in the stomach of a sheep. You can see 

the “barber pole” appearance of the worms. Photo courtesy of the 

Kaplan Lab. 

to other farmers who might be hesitant to adopt the simple, 

more sustainable approach. 

“If you use a drug to kill an infectious agent such as 

bacteria, viruses or parasites, eventually you probably will 

get drug resistance,” Kaplan said. “But how rapidly that 

occurs, whether it occurs over several years or several 

decades, will be determined by how the drug is used.” 

Don’t miss the College of Veterinary Medicine’s next 

OPEN HOUSE 

Friday, April 5th, 2013 

For more information or for directions to the College, please visit us at: 

www.vet.uga.edu/openhouse

CollegeNews 

In Case 

of an 

Emergency 

UGA College of Veterinary 

Medicine prepares 

emergency shelter for pets 


When the word “emergency” is spoken in the halls of 

the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), 

most people think of a medical emergency, which can 

be treated in the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital. 

However, thanks to a dedicated group of faculty and staff members, 

there is another type of emergency with which the CVM is involved: 

helping healthy animals that need somewhere to go when disaster 

strikes their home. The answer is in the creation of the Pet Friendly 

Shelter. 

The mostly likely scenario for using this type of shelter would 

be if a hurricane or some other natural disaster hit the coast of 

Georgia, explains Steffen Sum, DVM, an assistant professor of small 

animal internal medicine. Sum and six CVM colleagues, including 

committee chair Amie Koenig, DVM, an associate professor of small 

animal emergency/critical care medicine, have been instrumental in 

developing the plan for the animal shelter. 

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If the shelter is ever needed, it would be housed in 

the UGA Livestock Instructional Arena on Milledge 

Avenue in Athens, south of the State Botanical Garden of 

Georgia. The shelter can accommodate up to 250 dogs, 

up to 150 cats, and approximately 30 small mammals, like 

hamsters and gerbils. No reptiles or birds are allowed, and 

large animals, such as horses, would be referred to other 

facilities, of which the CVM has a list. The shelter would 

be open to, and free for, pets whose owners are staying at 

the human shelter at the UGA Ramsey Student Center. 

“This is an extension of the human shelter,” Sum says. 

“Ramsey can accommodate up to 500 people, and we 

estimate for every 10 people there may be one pet. It’s 

hard to know how many pets would come, but this 

animal shelter should be sufficient. We hope we never get 

activated, but we have to be prepared.” 

The advantages of using 

the UGA Livestock Arena, 

which is operated by the 

UGA College of Agricultural 

and Environmental Sciences 

(CAES), are that it contains 

some climate-controlled 

areas, it is presently set up 

for animals, and it is in close 

proximity to the human 

shelter, as well as to the CVM, 

which will provide staffing 

for the facility. Plans call for 

faculty members, technicians and students to take on 

various roles if the shelter should be activated, and FEMA 

would reimburse the shelter for most of the expenses. 

Since 2006, when Congress passed the Pets Evacuation 

and Transportation Standards Act (PETS Act), a 

committee from the CVM has been creating plans to 

establish and staff an emergency animal shelter. The PETS 

Act was adopted in response to Hurricane Katrina and the 

fact that many people did not follow orders to evacuate 

because they were afraid to leave their pets. Many of 

the shelters were not equipped to provide shelter for the 

animals. To avoid situations like this in the future, each 

state was charged with coming up with a way to address 

these scenarios. 

Georgia’s former governor, Sonny Perdue, charged 

Dean Sheila Allen with setting up an ad-hoc committee 

to come up with suggestions. Research was done by 

contacting several agencies that worked with animals 

“There is still a lot of work left,” 

concluded Sum, “but, a plan exists 

and now we have to implement the 

plan. People consider pets to be 

members of their family, and there 

has to be a plan to help these family 

members. It’s better to be prepared 

than surprised.” 

during Hurricane Katrina, as well as with other CVMs, 

about programs they implement. While some states have 

mobile units that provide assistance to animals in case of 

emergency, or pet-friendly human shelters, no other state 

is known to have an animal-specific emergency shelter. 

After the ad-hoc group met and planned over a twoyear 

period, there was so much work to be done that a 

permanent committee was established to work closely with 

the CAES, the UGA Office of Security and Emergency 

Preparedness (OSEP), and several other organizations. 

Although a lot of work has been done and there is a large 

to-do list, the animal emergency shelter could be activated 

at any time, should the need arise. 

“We have made some significant progress,” says Sum, 

“but there are still a lot of details to put together.” 

This fall, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency 

(GEMA) sponsored a mock 

emergency exercise where the 

shelter opened and accepted 

pets (which were actually 

stuffed animals). Participants 

in the exercise included the 

CVM, the UGA Center for 

Agribusiness & Economic 

Development, the OESP, the 

UGA Community Emergency 

Response Team (CERT), 

CAES, the American Red 

Cross, and representatives 

from local animal shelters. The exercise took staff 

members through many scenarios from setting up 

operations, computer systems, and photographing the pets 

for identification, to responding to different emergencies 

like what to do if an owner is bitten by an animal or how to 

prevent the pets from being lost or stolen. 

The exercise was a good practice run, and helped 

highlight issues that need improvement. Securing pledges 

of help from vendors in case of emergency, working with 

student groups like the UGA CVM’s student chapter of 

the Association of Shelter Veterinarians to plan annual 

training, and improving ventilation of the building are a 

few of the items on the to-do list. 

“There is still a lot of work left,” concluded Sum, “but, 

a plan exists and now we have to implement the plan. 

People consider pets to be members of their family, and 

there has to be a plan to help these family members. It’s 

better to be prepared than surprised.” 


CollegeNews 

The Miracle 

of Rascal 


Photo courtesy of Carmen Studio Story 

John Mazzola and his dog, Rascal, are inseparable. 

They have been since John Mazzola’s wife, Penny, 

found Rascal in a pet store when he was just a puppy. 

“I am so thankful Penny found him. She knew I was 

mourning the loss of my previous dog, Gizmo, who passed 

away after 14-and-a-half years. She knew I needed a 

Rascal in my life.” 

Whether John Mazzola and Rascal are walking around 

town doing errands, going to softball games at the local 

park, or riding in Mazzola’s car (affectionately called the 

“Rascal-mobile” because of his “1Rascal” license plate), the 

two have created a very special bond. And the dedication 

Mazzola showed Rascal by coming to visit him nearly 

every day of Rascal’s nearly two-and-a-half week stay and 

two surgeries at the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital 

(VTH) is even more testament to their bond. 

Rascal, a Yorkshire Terrier who weighs not even 15 

pounds, was hit by a pickup truck while he and Mazolla 

were walking near their home in downtown Gray, Ga., in 

early August. Mazolla scooped Rascal up and whisked him 

to their local veterinarian in Gray who gave Rascal an IV, 

took initial X-rays and sent him to the UGA VTH. 

“My veterinarian said the only chance Rascal had was to 

go to the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Athens,” 

recalls Mazzola about the day he, his wife and Rascal made 

their first trip to the UGA VTH. “We made it to Athens in 

about half the time it should have taken, and they knew we 

were coming. The UGA emergency veterinarians were out 

in the parking lot to meet us at the car.” 

Rascal immediately went into the emergency room 

where several fractures were confirmed; the doctors also 

found damage to his abdomen, including a ruptured 

bladder. He was put on a ventilator to help his breathing. 

“At the initial meeting that night, I was falling to pieces. 

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My wife was falling to pieces. His condition was not good 

and we didn’t know what would happen to him.” 

The next several days were a roller coaster of emotions, 

filled with uncertainty, then optimism, then more 

concerns. 

“The miracle of Rascal was actually two-fold,” recalls 

Mazzola. “The first miracle was surviving the first 24 

hours and then a five-hour surgery. The second major 

miracle came when E. coli bacteria set in a few days after 

the accident. For the second time, we were told the next 24 

hours would be critical. And again, he pulled through.” 

Through all of Rascal’s peaks and valleys during his stay 

at the hospital, John Mazzola was there almost every day. 

Several nights he even stayed in a local hotel to ensure he 

could visit early the next morning. 

“The miracle of Rascal was actually 

two-fold,” recalls Mazzola. “The 

first miracle was surviving the first 

24 hours and then a five-hour surgery. 

The second major miracle 

came when E. coli bacteria set in a 

few days after the accident. For the 

second time, we were told the next 

24 hours would be critical. And 

again, he pulled through.” 

must have been painful, the hospital staff at UGA always 

made sure Rascal was comfortable. I think he got better 

care there than most people get in a human hospital. If 

anything happens to me, take me to the veterinary 

hospital!” says Mazzola. 

Now, more than five months after the surgery, Rascal is 

doing great. 

“The fact that Rascal is alive today really is a miracle,” 

asserts Mazzola. “Rascal is back to his old self. He jumps 

on the sofa and wants to do everything he used to do. He 

has gained some weight, too, and you can’t really tell where 

his scars are.” 

“You need to know that my local veterinarian did not 

think that Rascal would live long enough to get from Gray 

to Athens, but she did not realize that Rascal was in God’s 

hands,” recalls Mazzola. “He got us there, and He knew 

that your faculty and staff would do the rest.” 

“Every morning started with an update of how Rascal 

had done the night before, and what time I could see him 

that day,” remembers Mazzola. “In the first 72 hours, I 

must have gotten six phone calls with updates, plus my 

visits. I thought that was really great to reassure me at such 

a critical time.” 

Mazzola really got to know the receptionists, the doctors, 

the veterinary technicians, and the rest of the staff during 

his frequent visits. 

“After all that he went through, and knowing that it 

Rascal 

Photo courtesy of Carmen Studio Story 


CollegeNews 

Picture 

your 

pet 

Photogenic Felines 

and Camera-happy 

Canines Chosen as 

2012 ‘Picture Your 

Veterinarians Pet’ Finalists 

serving public By Sarah Freeman 

health in the 

Epidemic 

Intelligence 

........................ 

After a multi-year hiatus, the UGA 

Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s (VTH) 

Picture Your Pet contest returned with a flurry 

in 2012. We received more than 250 wonderful 

entries of personable pets displaying a range of 

emotions: pensive and playful, sweet and sassy, 

inquisitive and engaging. 

Following a review by a panel of judges, 34 

photographs were selected as the winning entries. 

There was no single winner, but rather several 

winners from each of four categories: dogs, cats, 

horses and miscellaneous animals. What follows 

is a representative sample of winning entries, 

complete with the photo and story about the 

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animal, from each category. 

>>>> 

My Dakota 

Category: Dogs 

Submitted by Angie Garcia 

Photo by Anne Yarbrough 

Dakota was diagnosed with 

hemangiosarcoma in the summer of 

2011. Despite the wonderful care of the 

UGA faculty and staff who operated on 

him and administered his regular chemo 

treatments, he succumbed to the dreaded disease 

in September 2011. It was an emotional time, as 

Dakota was my first canine companion when I was 

on my own as an adult. We grew a lot together. I 

couldn’t have asked for a more faithful friend and 

a superb mentor for all the foster pups we took in 

over the years. His legacy lives on in each and every 

one of those pups, and his spirit will live on forever 

in my heart. 

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Luna: It’s All Right to 

be Little-Bitty 

Category: Horses/Ponies 

Submitted by Polly Cleveland 

Luna is a 5-year-old American 

Miniature mare who stands 

28-inches tall at the withers. Luna 

would not be alive today if it 

were not for the UGA College of 

Veterinary Medicine. At just four 

weeks of age, weighing about 40 

pounds, she underwent colic surgery 

and a gastrostomy. Miraculously, 

Luna survived and prospered. 

Today, she is an exceptional halter 

show horse, and she also gives back 

by visiting schools and nursing 

homes, where she is always a favorite 

due to her small size and coloring. 

>>>>>> 

Parker Chambers: 

Bright-eyed Parker 

Category: Cats 

Submitted by Colleen Chambers 

Parker was the beautiful orange 

tabby who was the joy in our day 

for almost 11 years. His social, 

affectionate nature captivated the 

hearts of everyone he met. Just like 

most cats, Parker spent his days 

watching the birds, sleeping in the 

sun, playfully chasing his brother, and 

purring contently during a belly rub. 

During the last four years, Parker 

encountered some health problems 

that brought us to the UGA Veterinary 

Teaching Hospital on many occasions. 

Although the circumstances were 

less than desirable, the experience of 

meeting such dedicated professionals 

working tirelessly to provide exceptional 

care offered such comfort and hope. The 

care that Parker received allowed us four 

additional years together. 

>>>> 

>>>>>> 


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>>>>> 

Arrow: A Kiss for 

My Sweet Arrow 

Category: Miscellaneous Pets 

Submitted by Nickie Carter 

Photo by Rick Carter 

Arrow Carter is a 

14-month-old Standard 

Bronze turkey. She has been 

raised with an enormous 

amount of love and 

attention. As a fuzzy poult, 

her head was adorned with 

a marking that was perfectly 

shaped like an arrow. As 

she grew, that fuzz was 

replaced with feathers, but 

the name stuck with her. 

Recently Arrow became a 

patient of the VTH when 

her crop suddenly enlarged 

and would not properly 

empty. Thankfully, the 

doctors and staff were able 

to successfully treat her and 

send her back home with us 

the next day. And, today she 

is doing great! 

>>>>> 

Hurley: Puppy Portrait 

Category: Dogs 

Submitted by David and Iniray Luper 

One day just before he turned one, Hurley’s legs went lame and 

he developed a fever, which regularly peaked at over 106 degrees for 

two-and-a-half weeks. Our veterinarian could not figure out what was 

wrong. Hurley stopped eating and drinking, he could not walk, and he 

was in immense pain. He was admitted to the UGA Veterinary Teaching 

Hospital’s Emergency/Critical Care Service, where he stayed for five 

days, and was diagnosed with immune mediated polyarthritis. We were 

so shaken up and worried, but the veterinarians and staff at UGA saved 

our buddy! They put him on prednisone, which wound up resetting his 

immune system. Now he is a healthy 3 year old! Hurley is part of our 

family, and we can’t thank the folks at the UGA VTH enough for saving 

him! 

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2012 Picture Your Pet Contest Finalists 

Pet: Entry Name Client’s Name Hometown 

Category: Felines 

Bombom: All Mine Elsa Mann Lawrenceville, Ga. 

Chelsey and Angel: Window Dreams Lisa Last Moore Athens, Ga. 

Cyndy: Cyndy and the Shoe Lisa Williamson Bogart, Ga. 

Sienna: Kitten in Cement Block Lisa Hood Elberton, Ga. 

Lana: Headphones Mark Reagin Athens, Ga. 

Meko: Looking Out Gregory Mann Lawrenceville, Ga. 

Parker: Bright-eyed Parker Colleen Chambers Suwanee, Ga. 

Category: Canines 

Addy: On Chair Cory Gresham Winterville, Ga. 

Asa Katie Beacham Atlanta, Ga. 

Chelsea: Got Cookies Teresa Bacon Watkinsville, Ga. 

Dakota: My Dakota (by Anne Yarbrough) Angie Garcia Athens, Ga. 

Eddie and Merlin: Cuddling Cecile Thompson Gainesville, Ga. 

Fantasy 5 Times Two Angelia Chappelear Winterville, Ga. 

Gunner: Portrait No. 8,124 Sean Dunn & Cheryl Juska Athens, Ga. 

HRCH Clubmead’s Alli Gator (by Mark Atwater) Brenda & David McLendon Loganville, Ga. 

Hurley: Puppy Portrait David & Iniray Luper Athens, Ga. 

Liberty and Legend: Friends Leo Sage Athens, Ga. 

Mamie Daniel Smith Athens, Ga. 

Newman Becky Goldman Lincolnton, Ga. 

Paddy: On the Beach Mala Charapich Marietta, Ga. 

Rascal (by Carmen Story) John Mazzola Gray, Ga. 

Rocky: Sleepy Kathi Liebe Milledgeville, Ga. 

Socs: Happy Socs (by Gary Butts) Evelyn Smith Alpharetta, Ga. 

Templeton: Just Relaxin’ Phyllis Avery Elberton, Ga. 

Zachary: He is the Window to My Soul Sean Dunn & Cheryl Juska Athens, Ga. 

Category: Horses/Ponies 

Gee Whiz Diane Kirby Greensboro, Ga. 

Gracie Hannah Williams Overland Park, Kan. 

Gunner: What the Hay Carrie & Mike Russell Carlton, Ga. 

Luna: It’s All Right to be Little-Bitty Polly Cleveland Winterville, Ga. 

Olivia: A Kiss is Worth a Thousand Words Ashley Lohmeyer Roswell, Ga. 

(by Alex Smith) 

Category: Misc. Animals 

Arrow: A Kiss for My Sweet Arrow Nickie & Rick Carter Bogart, Ga. 

Fred Renee & Jamie Barber Bogart, Ga. 

Stillcrazy 

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Farm Rosie Robbie Buchanan Jefferson, Ga. 

TuTu Charming and Mary Mae Lisa Williamson Bogart, Ga. 

For a complete list of winning entries and a link to the slide show, 

please visit www.vet.uga.edu/go/photo-contest.php, or scan this QR 

code with your smart phone. 


StudentNews 

Inspired in 

Bahrain 

Student’s visit stirs scholarship potential 

Photos and story by Taylor “Eve” Winkleman (DVM ’15) 

Editor’s Note 

For second-year veterinary student 

Taylor “Eve” Winkleman, the path to pursue 

a veterinary education has been unique. 

Winkleman served in the U.S. Army from 

2001 through 2007, with several tours of 

duty in Iraq. During her time in the service, 

she learned about the importance of animals 

as companions. Her own memory of that 

companionship, as she endured the hot, humid 

conditions while posted on guard, never 

left her. Upon returning home, Winkleman 

adopted several dogs, fostered others, and 

ultimately, recognizing her love of animals to 

be strong, decided to become a veterinarian. 

In Summer 2012, Winkleman traveled back 

to the Middle East to do an externship with 

the Bahrain Society for the Prevention of 

Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA). Inspired by 

not only the tenacious spirit of the animals 

she encountered in Bahrain, but also by the 

sheer number of animals in need of care, 

and by the hardworking, but limited staff and 

resources, Winkleman is hoping to establish a 

collaborative scholarship, between the UGA 

CVM and BSPCA, that will help send other 

students to assist with the care of animals 

in Bahrain. Formerly a photographer with 

the Augusta (Ga.) Metro Spirit newspaper, 

Winkleman strapped on her camera to 

document her journey. What follows is her 

personal story of the experience, documented 

both by personal essay and photographs. 

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ever have so few 

“Ndone so much with 

so little.” I remember those 

words being spoken to me, 

and my two fellow linguists 

in my unit in Baghdad, in 

February of 2005. We were 

about to leave, and the 

brigade commander came to 

thank us personally for our 

efforts. 

Moments like that stay with 

you, and they snowball. In my 

case, it gave me an incredible 

amount of confidence in the 

difference that one person 

(or three) can make. I had 

a notion that if I believed 

enough in what I was doing 

and was willing to work 

hard enough, that nothing 

was impossible. So last year, 

when I decided that I wanted 

to go to a Middle Eastern 

country for an externship, 

and chose Bahrain, the fact 

that there was no externship 

program, nor even any kind 

of veterinary program in the 

country, did not deter me. I 

emailed, and emailed, and 

emailed, and asked friends 

who were in the country to 

go check out the Bahrain 

Society for the Prevention of 

Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA). 

And, I kept emailing until I 

had secured the permission 

of the BSPCA to let me travel 

to Bahrain for my entire 12- 

week summer vacation and 

work with their veterinarian. 

It was a brutally hot 

summer, habitually reaching 

above 120 degrees in the 

afternoons. Air conditioning 

brought the temperature in 

the office or the surgery suite 

down to a balmy 98 degrees 

most days. While I was there, 

I got to work with more than 

500 animals, mostly dogs and 

cats, which were brought into 

the shelter by people from all 

over the island. I wish I could 

tell all 500 stories, because 


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every single animal that I saw over the summer meant 

something to me, and felt important. 

I will tell you about Budge, a gorgeous white and 

gray longhaired, smash-faced beauty of a cat with 

huge paws. He came onto my radar because he had a 

persistent cough, and being the student veterinarian, 

I got the opportunity to do the treatments because 

the BSPCA did not have any veterinary technicians 

to assist the sole veterinarian. While Budge didn’t 

particularly enjoy having oral medicines every day, he 

was a very sweet cat, and I came to look forward to 

giving him his treatments. But his cough didn’t get any 

better. 

Hansel Geo Thomas, 26, a young Indian native 

to Bahrain, has a lot on his plate. He is the sole 

veterinarian at the BSPCA. The country’s Trap-Neuter- 

Release Program is his brainchild, but it is also going 

to give him more work than he has time for, and his 

wife just gave birth to their first son. So when I asked 

him about Budge’s persistent cough, he wasn’t terribly 

optimistic. He said it was most likely hypertrophic 

cardiomyopathy, a condition that would render Budge 

unadoptable. 

Between the two of us, we had so much work to do 

that it took about two weeks for us to find the time 

to ultrasound Budge’s heart. In that time, I had taken 

to spending a little bit of time with Budge every day, 

and was charmed by a cat who literally hugged me 

when I picked him up, and seemed happiest when he 

was in my arms. He purred like a broken lawnmower. 

But sure enough, when we gave him an ultrasound, 

Budge’s heart was too big. He was unadoptable, and 

that was surely a death sentence for the poor cat. 

I’m pretty sure you all know what’s coming next. 

And you’re right: I couldn’t stand the thought of 

this cat being put to sleep. So, I took him home. The 

running joke at the BSPCA is that Budge’s heart is so 

big because he loves so much more than other cats. 

Whatever it is, I know that Budge loves mango yogurt 

and Pringles, long naps and cuddling, and he will 

travel to the U.S. in early 2013, when my friend in 

Bahrain comes back to the States. 

Budge is one of the more than 2,000 animals that go 

through the BSPCA every year. The organization has 

no government funding, is almost entirely volunteerrun, 

and yet, somehow, manages to make a difference. 

Now they have a Trap-Neuter-Release Program, 

neutering more than 50 animals a week in an effort to 

bring the island’s stray population of more than 20,000 

under control humanely. They are an organization that 

works with the local population and culture. Through 

persistence, and an incredible amount of confidence 

in the impact that a small group of people can have, 

they are making a difference. For the past summer, I 

was a part of that effort. 

I learned a lot of the things that no one tells 

you about being a veterinarian. I learned about 

understanding the difference between what could be 

done in a perfect world and what can be done with 

the available resources and supplies. I learned about 

myself, all over again, from a new and different angle. I 

learned about what it truly means to have people look 

at you for the answer, trusting that you know it simply 

because you’re “the vet.” This nebulous concept of 

“veterinarianhood” that we all think about as students 

is an awful lot more solid and real for me now, and 

that is due to my time at the BSPCA. 

I don’t want to keep that experience to myself. So 

I have decided to start a scholarship to send other 

students to Bahrain, students that might otherwise 

not be able to have the kind of experience that I 

did. I want to do this because I know the difference 

that one person can have over the summer, and the 

difference that the BSPCA can make in a person over 

the summer. I want other people to believe in the kind 

of difference that we can make as veterinarians. These 

are the few people who do so much with so little, day 

in and day out. And I would love, more than anything, 

for my fellow students to know what it feels like to be 

one of those few. 

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Clockwise from top left: 1. Budge and me at the shelter. This is the famous Budge-hug, and is one of the many 

reasons I ended up adopting him. Photo courtesy of Clint Smith. 2. This handsome little guy is Chocco, a 

feisty kitten who spent most of his time playing in the shelter. Had I the ability, I probably would have taken 

home every animal at the shelter, but this guy was pretty special, and I considered taking him home more than 

once. 3. Saying goodbye to Hope, a sweet pit mix who came in with an impacted collar and stayed because she 

was pregnant. Her daughters Joy and Grace were adopted shortly after I left. Photo courtesy of Clint Smith. 


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Clockwise from top left: 4. The Grand Mosque. To go 

inside, women are required to wear the burka and hijab, and 

non-Muslims are not allowed in on Fridays. On Fridays, it 

is very typical to see the right lane of the highway outside 

the mosque lined with parked cars. The tall towers are the 

minarets, where traditionally the muezzin would sing the 

call to prayer. Now, the call is recorded and sounded with 

a speaker system. 5. Children playing soccer in a closedoff 

street near the apartment where I stayed. The street is 

closed off because it doesn’t go anywhere yet. 6. Her name 

is Lunar. Often when things got overwhelming, I would go 

down to the cat house and hang out, and Lunar was one of 

those animals that was so chill and sweet, she made you feel 

better. And, of course, those eyes. 7. Hansel Geo Thomas, 

the veterinarian who worked with me all summer. Despite 

the difficulties inherent in being a shelter vet, he is always 

cheerful. Here he was watching the puppies stumble into the 

air-conditioned space–an absolute necessity for about four 

hours in the middle of the 120+ degree days. 

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Clockwise from top left: 8. Toward the end of my stay, I got the genius idea to name the animals that came in after 

people in my class. This particular guy was named Perry, after one of my classmates, and he simply loved the camera. I 

fell in love with his ears, and nicknamed him Stitch after my favorite Disney character. German Shepherds and Huskies 

are probably the most popular dog breeds in Bahrain–and both breeds are cold-adapted and not particularly suited for 

the hot summer weather. Perry seemed to be mixed with the more ubiquitous “desert dog”–a tall, skinny, gangly sight 

hound mix that made Perry’s ears sort of comical and smile-inducing. 9. One of Bahrain’s most famous buildings, 

called the “Sail Building” by the local expats. There are two connected buildings with windmills in the center. The whole 

country is a study of contrasts–old and new, giant, modern buildings and lean-tos, paved roads and open desert that you 

can drive through. 10. One of the workers at the shelter on his way to let the puppies into the air conditioning. The daily 

transfer of the dogs from the exterior viewing runs into the air conditioning was called “The Running of the Dogs,” and 

usually went like clockwork–except for the puppies. They had to be shown where to go, and, occasionally, carried. But 

within two weeks, they’d be running with the others, making life much easier for all. 


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Clockwise from top: 11. The Hidd Bridge is one of the 

main roads and connects the two sides of the bay–while 

also providing fishing, great views, and easy access to 

Prince Khalifa bin Salman Park, the newest park built 

in honor of the Crown Prince. The day before this, I saw 

dolphins–which, of course, never happened again while I 

had a camera in my hand. 12. Miss Tootsie–obviously–is 

gorgeous. One of the strange things I noticed in Bahrain is 

that calico cats are not particularly popular; more popular 

is the Persian (which they call Shirazi). Tootsie was so 

sweet to me and was so patient–when I would go to the 

cat house, she would wait her turn quietly, but the second 

I got to her house, she would come straight up to me 

and instantly crawl into my arms. 13. Morgan (and her 

friend Annabelle, not pictured here) were brought into the 

shelter together. Morgan was protective of Annabelle, who 

was in worse shape than her, but both were emaciated and 

had obviously been through a lot. Despite that, both were 

gentle giants who loved to snuggle and play, and quickly 

won over our hearts. Also, Morgan looked a lot like 

Hooch, from the 1989 movie Turner and Hooch with Tom 

Hanks, and just made me smile. 14. A group of Bahraini 

men at the Prince Khalifa bin Salman Park. In Bahrain, it 

is pretty typical to see just groups of men, or just groups 

of women, out in public. Despite its population of expats, 

Bahrain tends to be more traditionally Islamic. 

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For More 

Information 

If you would like to help Taylor “Eve” 

Winkleman make this scholarship a reality, 

contact her at twinklem@uga.edu 


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Alec Davern (DVM ’13) was one of eight veterinary 

students nationwide awarded a $2,500 scholarship 

from the American Association of Equine 

Practitioners Foundation and the insurance company 

Markel Corp. 

Elizabeth Gleim, a doctoral candidate based in 

the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease 

Study (SCWDS), was selected as the 2012 Byrd- 

Dunn Award winner at the annual meeting of the 

Southeastern Society of Parasitologists for her talk on 

the impact of imported red fire ants on the survival of 

two common tick species in Georgia. 

Barbara Shock, a doctoral candidate based in the 

SCWDS, was the 2012 winner of the Shikar Safari 

Club Foundation Scholarship. Shock was also the 

2012 winner of the Wildlife Disease Association 

Graduate Student Scholarship. 

Kerrie Anne Loyd, a master’s degree student 

mentored by Dr. Sonia Hernandez (who is jointly 

appointed to SCWDS and Warnell), was the 2012 

recipient of the E.L. Cheatum Award, presented by 

the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural 

Resources. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ® 


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Student Ambassadors 2012-2013 

CVM student ambassadors serve as representatives of the College’s student body and assist with 

recruitment, outreach and college-related activities to enhance the public image of the College, its 

students and its programs. Selected annually, ambassadors must attend training sessions on public 

speaking, the College’s strategic plan and etiquette to prepare for their role as representatives of 

the CVM. CVM ambassadors are chosen for their strong leadership qualities, interpersonal skills, 

and sense of school spirit and pride. CVM ambassadors are available to speak on topics related to 

student recruitment, veterinary medicine and veterinary-related issues. 

Photo by Chrstopher B. Herron 

Back row, from left to right: Wade Won (DVM ’14), Mixed Animal; Scott Kelly (DVM ’15), Small Animal; Brad Angel (DVM ’15), 

Zoo Med; Wade Edwards (DVM ’14), Mixed Animal; William Frederick Marscher IV (DVM ’15), Small Animal. 4th row, left to 

right: Zack Moore (DVM ’15), Small Animal; Heidi Morton (DVM ’15), Zoo Med; Alyson Frederick (DVM ’15), Mixed Animal; 

Brittany Paschal (DVM ’15), Small Animal; Deanna Veal (DVM ’15), Food Animal; Robert Holly (DVM ’14), Small Animal. 3rd 

row, left to right: Kirstin Ruffner (DVM ’14), Food Animal; Luke Rogers (DVM ’14), Mixed Animal; John Gagnepain (DVM ’14), 

Mixed Animal; Megan Harris (DVM ’15), Small Animal; Jennifer James (DVM ’15), Small Animal. 2nd row, left to right: Alan 

Power (DVM ’14), Mixed Animal; Naeemah Johnson (DVM ’15), Food Animal; Ann Rychlicki (DVM ’14), Small Animal; Brittany 

Murphy (DVM ’15), Equine; Marion Floyd (DVM ’15), Small Animal; Christopher Perry (DVM ’15), Mixed Animal. 1st row, left 

to right: Katelyn Ellis (DVM ’15), Equine; Step Bond (DVM ’14), Mixed Animal; Jenna Shafer (DVM ’14), Small Animal; Raley 

White (DVM ’15), Small Animal; Matt Sullivan (DVM ’14), Mixed Animal. Not pictured: Kristen Hamsley (DVM ’15), Small Animal; 

Lydia Young (DVM ’14), Population Health. 


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Winners from the 2012 Science of Veterinary Medicine 

Symposium 

Photo by Chrstopher B. Herron 

Back row, from left to right: Keynote speaker Dennis O’Brien; Vijay Durairaj, graduate student in population health; Dr. Harry 

W. Dickerson, associate dean for research and graduate affairs; Dr. Scott Brown, professor of veterinary medicine and program 

coordinator; Paul Oesterle, graduate student in the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study. 3rd row, from left to right: 

Erin Edwards (DVM ’14); Jennifer Willingham-Lane, graduate student in infectious diseases; Julie Rushmore, graduate student in 

ecology; Xin Li, graduate student in infectious diseases; Jordan Scherk, DVM, resident in emergency and critical care medicine. 

2nd row, from left to right: Jenny Munhofen (DVM ’16, MS ’12), graduate student in veterinary and biomedical sciences; Kristen 

Hamsley (DVM ’15); Amie Goedeke (DVM ’15); Tracy Sturgil, graduate student in large animal medicine; Lisa Fultz, resident in 

large animal medicine. 1st row, from left to right: Sheryl Coutermarsh-Ott, DVM, graduate student in pathology; Jennifer Mumaw, 

PhD (DVM’16); Saritha Krishna Lalitha Kumari, graduate student in physiology and pharmacology; Rebecca Regan, DVM, 

resident in oncology; Christina Varian, graduate student in pathology; Monique Franca, graduate student in pathology. This event 

is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at UGA. Only CVM winners are represented here. 

The UGA CVM held its annual Science of Veterinary Medicine Symposium on Oct. 11, 2012. The 

symposium featured a keynote address from Dr. Dennis O’Brien, a professor of veterinary neurology at 

the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. O’Brien’s lecture was entitled “Fireflies in 

the Brain: Comparative Studies of Hereditary Neurologic Diseases.” His work in neuroscience recently 

garnered him the Robert W. Kirk Award for Professional Excellence from the American College of 

Veterinary Internal Medicine. 

Other speakers included: Sonia Altizer, an associate dean of faculty affairs for the UGA Odum School of 

Ecology and an associate professor, discussed animal migrations and associated risks of infectious diseases; 

Dr. Sonia Hernandez, an assistant professor of wildlife disease jointly appointed to the UGA Warnell 

School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study at 

UGA CVM, discussed her videographic studies of feline behavior; Maria Viveiros, an assistant professor 

of pharmacology at the CVM, discussed the use of stem cells in medicine and research; and Dr. Steve 

Budsberg, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the CVM, discussed recent advances in our understanding 

of pain management. The event was supported by donations from Boehringer-Ingelheim, Iams, Pfizer and 

Novartis. 

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Highlights from 2012 Honors and Awards Banquet 

Danielle Pollio (DVM ’12) received the 

Dean Emeritus Thomas J. Jones Cup ($1,000). 

The award is presented to an outstanding fourthyear 

student selected on the basis of personality, 

professional proficiency, and scholastic 

achievement. 

Catherine Ray (DVM ’12) was awarded 

the Faculty Scholastic Plaque and Clifford 

E. Westerfield Award ($1,000). The award is 

presented to a fourth-year student with the 

highest scholastic average for the entire four 

years spent at the CVM. 

Shana Gross (DVM ’12) was awarded 

the 2012 Veterinarian-of-the-Year Award. 

Sponsored by the Auxilliary to the Georgia 

Veterinary Medical Association, the $1000 

scholarship is presented to a senior student who 

has demonstrated professionalism, commitment, 

and scholastic excellence. 

Graduate Studies 

Earn your: 

MS and PhD in Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences 

If you want a career in translational or clinical research. 

DVM-MPH 

If, as a veterinarian, you want to address public health issues in 

environmental health, infectious diseases, global health, biosecurity, 

epidemiology and/or health policy. 

DVM-PhD 

If you want a career that will integrate clinical knowledge in comparative 

medicine to address questions in applied or basic research. 

Master’s in Avian Medicine or Food Animal Health and Management 

If you’re a veterinarian looking for advanced training in poultry or food 

animal medicine. 

vetgrad@uga.edu 706.542.5752 

www.vet.uga.edu/research/students

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A Pathway to 

Research 

Morris Animal Scholar’s research seeks canine diagnostic screening 

By Jessica Luton 

For third-year veterinary student Erica Noland (DVM 

’14), the last two summers have not been spent relaxing 

alongside a sandy beach or by the pool. Instead, she spent 

her time in the laboratory doing her part to contribute to 

and learn from two unique opportunities to dip her toes 

into the field of research. 

Always an animal lover, with an interest in both human 

and animal medicine, she landed at UGA’s College of 

Veterinary Medicine following completion of her master’s 

degree, at the nearby Georgia Institute of Technology, in 

molecular and cell biology. 

As a 2011 Georgia Veterinary Scholar, and as a 2012 

recipient of the prestigious Morris Animal Scholar award, 

Noland worked alongside Rabindranath De La Fuente, 

DVM, MSc, PhD, an associate professor of physiology 

and pharmacology. Under his mentorship, she sought 

to progress the field of veterinary oncology, with hopes 

that one day her research will benefit canine patients and 

potentially lend to the advancement of human health. 

Prognosis of malignant mammary cancer is dependent 

upon a number of factors, but in general early detection 

and treatment are key to a favorable outcome. 

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The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine 

Photo by Sue Myers Smith 

They first looked for protein markers involved in 

chromosome instability in canine mammary cancer 

cells, she said, and using a DNA repair pathway protein 

from this preliminary study, they are now developing a 

screening test for drug therapy. 

“It just kind of developed from there,” she said. “We 

were excited by the results and saw the potential there for 

clinical use. A diagnostic screening protocol to determine 

whether canine patients would be responsive to a pathwayspecific 

therapeutic approach would aid clinicians in their 

treatment and management of the disease. Our biomarkers 

may also be able to detect early neoplastic change.” 

Her initial research results in 2011 were very promising, 

she said, and so she decided to submit her proposal to an 

internal review committee at the UGA CVM, as only one 

proposal from each CVM may be submitted to the Morris 

Animal Foundation, per 2012 guidelines for submissions. 

Her proposal was then selected by the Morris Animal 

Foundation for funding. 

Noland is not the first to venture toward research at 

UGA thanks to the prestigious Morris Animal Scholarship. 

In 2010, Mason Savage (DVM ’11) had an opportunity to

participate in research through the program as well. Now, 

he’s a diagnostic imaging resident at North Carolina State 

University, something he attributes to his researching 

opportunities at the UGA CVM. 

Savage teamed up with research mentor Scott 

Schatzberg, DVM, PhD, a former associate professor of 

neurology, for some extra research experience during his 

fourth year at the 

UGA CVM. Along 

the way, Schatzberg 

recommended that 

Savage and another 

student, Dan Regan 

(DVM ’11), submit 

a joint proposal for 

some research they’d 

been conducting. 

Their project looked 

at canine degenerate 

myelopathy, a disease 

similar to amyotrophic 

lateral sclerosis (ALS; 

often known in the 

United States as Lou 

Gehrig’s disease) 

in humans. They 

focused on creating 

a molecular test that 

could be applied 

toward dogs with the 

disease to see if any 

underlying infectious 

agents existed, and if 

so, if there was any 

correlation between 

the infectious agents Erica Noland shows off her work in the lab. 

in dogs with the disease 

and in dogs without it. 

“What we were really looking to do was see if there was 

any infection going on in these patients that we could 

treat,” he said. 

Having mentors along the way has helped Noland, too. 

Noland would like to thank Claudia Baumann, PhD, a 

research associate in the De La Fuente lab, for teaching 

her the necessary skills to function independently in the 

lab, as well as for all her guidance and help with data 

interpretation. Noland also would like to thank her official 

mentor, De La Fuente, for his encouragement. In fact, it 

was De La Fuente who suggested Noland apply for the 

Morris Animal Foundation scholarship. 

“It’s a very prestigious award and it’s also a unique 

opportunity for veterinary students to get supported to do 

basic research,” he noted. 

Doing research during the summer means that these 

projects require a fast pace, which makes the work both 

fun and challenging, he said. Noland hit the ground 

running with several techniques, and ended up with a 

set of data that is now being polished up and prepped for 

future publishable work. 

“It’s rewarding to have a set of data at the end of the 

project period that’s in good 

shape for an abstract,” he said. 

“Eventually, what we intend 

to do is publish a full research 

paper.” 

The work is important for 

many reasons, but namely 

because in veterinary 

oncology there’s a real need to 

understand very basic biological 

mechanisms, knowledge that will 

provide value in basic research 

in other species and potentially 

be directly applicable to human 

oncology. 

For Noland, the opportunity to 

work with a wonderful research 

mentor and venture into the 

field of veterinary research for 

the first time has been not only 

exciting and fun, but has also 

opened up the possibility of 

research as a potential career 

option in the future. 

Currently Noland is tying 

up loose ends with the project, 

making sure that the markers are 

reproducible in the cell lines, and 


honing in on a new technique 

to quantify protein expression at 

the single-cell level. 

Eventually, a bigger goal of the project will be turning it 

into a global epigenetic analysis, she said. 

The preliminary results of her work have already been 

presented at the Georgia Veterinary Scholars Program 

Research Day in July 2011, the Merial/NIH National 

Veterinary Scholars Symposium in Orlando, Fla., in 

August 2011, and the Science of Veterinary Medicine 

Symposium at UGA in October 2011. All were great 

opportunities to network, show others what the team has 

been doing in the lab, and to see what others are working 

on in the field, Noland said. 

After her time at the UGA CVM, Noland says the 

window of opportunity is wide open for what the future 

may hold. She’s interested in a career in laboratory animal 

medicine and also has a strong interest in pathology. 


StudentNews 

CVM Welcomes Class of 2016 


The UGA CVM welcomed the Class of 2016 during its annual White Coat Ceremony 

on Aug. 12, 2012. Sponsored by the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association, the event 

officially recognized 102 members of the incoming class by donning them with lab coats 

to be worn during their veterinary education. 

The hour-long ceremony was held in Mahler Hall at the UGA Hotel and Conference 

Center at the Georgia Center. After the ceremony, Dr. Spencer Tally Jr., who at the time 

was president of the GVMA, led the two-block recessional of coated students to the 

veterinary college for a class photo, followed by a reception with the students’ families and 

members of the College’s faculty and staff. 

The incoming class is made up of 79 women and 23 men. The class features a wide 

variety of interests: 58 percent are interested in companion animal medicine; 11 percent 

in mixed-animal medicine; 11 percent in zoo animal and wildlife medicine; 6 percent 

in food animal medicine; 5 percent in public health; 5 percent in equine medicine and 4 

percent in research. 

“The white coat is the symbol of medical professionalism,” said Dr. K. Paige 

Carmichael, the College’s associate dean for academic affairs. “This ceremony, where our 

first-year students are coated and hear the Veterinarian’s Oath for the first time, reminds 

them that they are beginning their education in one of the most respected medical 

professions.” 

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Omega Tau Sigma’s Eta Chapter to host Grand Council 2013 

Omega Tau Sigma’s Eta 

chapter, which calls the 

UGA CVM “home,” will 

be welcoming members 

from veterinary schools 

throughout North America 

as the chapter hosts Grand 

Council 2013 this November. 

Grand Council is the annual 

meeting of OTS’s national 

chapters and alumni 

leadership. 

Eta chapter’s members have 

already begun conducting 

fundraisers to support the southern-themed 

weekend, tentatively slated for Nov. 15-18. 

Thomas Griner, chapter president, Alyson 

Frederick, treasurer, and Grand Council committee 

co-chairs Elyse Paske and Eve Winkleman, attended 

the most recent Grand Council, hosted by Gamma 

chapter at The Ohio State University. They returned 

with a greater sense of camaraderie and a plenitude 

of ideas, which they, along with the other members 

of the executive and Grand Council committees, 

have been busily working on, while also juggling 

rigorous class schedules. 

“One of the biggest lessons we learned from Ohio 

is that we won’t be able to pull this off without the 

Get your own AnAtomic Dog! 

If you’ve visited our student lobby recently, you’ve probably 

noticed our “AnAtomic Dog” — a colorful, more-than-life-sized 

bulldog that was presented to the College as a gift from the Class 

of 2009. Now you can have your very own, scaled-down version. 

Omega Tau Sigma is selling miniature versions of the AnAtomic 

Dog to raise money for the fraternity. A portion of the proceeds 

also benefits the Veterinary Medicine Hospital Building Fund. 

Like the original, the miniature was designed by Athens artist 

John Ahee. Each AnAtomic Dog statuette costs $30, plus shipping 

and handling. Prior to mailing your in your order, please contact 

Dr. Doris Miller for shipping and handling costs: miller@uga.edu or 

706.542.5915. 

Checks should be made payable to Omega Tau Sigma. Please include a note containing your 

name, shipping address, phone number, and email address. Mail your payment and contact/shipping 

information to: 

OTS Alumni Treasurer 

205 Burnett St. 

Athens, GA 30605 

support of our alumni,” said Griner, who noted that 

as many as 250 visitors may attend the event. (Eta 

chapter has about 120 current members.) 

Eta chapter alumni can help in a variety of ways, 

including: monetary donations; lending tables, chairs 

and other items that can be used for small meetings 

held at the fraternity house; assistance with food, 

beverages and other items for catered events held at 

the OTS house. The chapter’s leadership also hopes 

to see a good turnout of Eta alumni. 

OTS’s Eta members have made many 

improvements to the fraternity house in the past 

year, including rebuilding the upper deck, staining 

both decks, and replacing flooring in the upstairs 

common room. 

Members of the fraternity and the Grand Council 

committee are looking forward to creating a 

memorable and wonderful Grand Council 2013 

experience for everyone who attends. 

For More Information 

Thomas Griner 

President, OTS Eta Chapter 

president@otseta.org 

www.otseta.org 

www.vet.uga.edu/student_clubs/ots.home

FacultyNews 

Mark Jackwood, PhD, who heads the CVM’s 

department of population health, has been selected 

as a Distinguished Alumnus Award winner by the 

University of Delaware College of Agriculture and 

Natural Resources. 

Dr. Keith Harris, who heads the CVM’s department 

of pathology, received the 2012 Presidential Award 

from the American College of Veterinary Pathologists 

(ACVP) for his outstanding service to ACVP. The 

award was presented to him by Dr. Claire Andreasen 

(MS ’87, PhD ’90), president of ACVP. 

Bridget Garner, DVM, PhD, DACVP, and 

Maria Viveiros, PhD, assistant professors in the 

departments of pathology, and physiology and 

pharmacology, respectively, have been selected as Lilly 

Teaching Fellows. Each spring, UGA selects up to 10 

new faculty members to participate in this two-year 

program. 

Maria M. Viveiros, PhD, received $445,500 from 

the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop 

a unique mouse model to assess the underlying 

mechanisms of meiotic spindle formation in oocytes, 

or egg cells. Viveiros will determine whether these 

mechanisms are disrupted with increasing maternal 

age, leading to chromosome segregation errors and 

aneuploidy, an abnormal number of chromosomes. 

Aneuploidy in developing embryos is the leading 

genetic cause of congenital birth defects and 

pregnancy loss in women. 

Dr. Andy Parks, who heads the department of 

large animal medicine, has been selected as a 

Senior Teaching Fellow for 2012-2013. Each year, 

UGA selects up to eight senior faculty members to 

participate in this program. 

Dr. Claire Andreasen, left with Dr. Keith Harris. Photo courtesy of the 

American College of Veterinary Pathologists. 

Drs. Andrew Moorhead, Ray Kaplan and Michael 

Dzimianski, from the department of infectious 

diseases, received $312,260 from the National 

Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide Brugia malayi 

adult worms and infective larvae to researchers at the 

NIH. 

Dr. Gregg Rapoport, assistant professor of 

cardiology, and Dr. Justin Thomason, a third-year 

resident in cardiology, received $7,000 from the 

American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine 

to assess the effectiveness of a delayed-release 

formulation of procainamide to improve treatment of 

dogs with heart disease. 

Dr. Karen Cornell, a professor of small animal 

surgery, was selected as a participant in the 

Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium 

Administrative Leadership Development Program for 

the 2012-2013 academic year. 

Dr. Susan Sanchez, a professor in the departments of 

population health and infectious diseases, has been 

appointed Director of Educational Programs at the 

Georgia BioBusiness Center (GBBC) and Assistant 

Director & Chair of the new division of One Health at 

the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute (BHSI). 

Dr. Danny Mead, an associate professor of population 

health, has been named the new science director of 

the Animal Health Research Center (AHRC). He 

will join the AHRC management team to oversee 

BSL3, ABSL3, and BSL3Ag studies in the facility. 

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Mead’s previous extensive experience in the AHRC 

and Plum Island provides a solid foundation for his 

service to the College in this new role. 

Faculty awards from the 2012 Honors and 

Awards Celebration: 

Note: Faculty Recognition Awards are selected by the 

entire class, and given to the faculty member deemed 

by the class to have made the greatest contribution to its 

education during that academic year. 

Dr. Cherie Roberts (DVM ’82), a senior lecturer from 

the department of veterinary biosciences and diagnostic 

imaging, received the Faculty Recognition Award from 

the Class of 2015. 

Dr. Kate Myrna, an assistant professor of ophthalmology, 

received the Faculty Recognition Award from the Class of 

2014. 

Dr. Marc Kent, an associate professor of neurology, 

received the Faculty Recognition Award from the Class of 

2013. 

Ira Roth (DVM ’86), a clinical assistant professor 

and director of the UGA Community Practice Clinic, 

received the Faculty Recognition Award from the Class 

of 2012. Roth was also awarded the Pfizer Distinguished 

Teacher Award, the top teaching award for all veterinary 

professors at all veterinary colleges. The award is given 

to a teaching member of the faculty selected on the basis 

of character, leadership, and teaching ability as judged 

by the responsiveness of his/her students. The award is 

sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health. 

Lee represents CVM at USA Science and 

Engineering Festival 

Dr. Margie Lee, professor of population health and 

infectious diseases, joined other UGA faculty and 

graduate students who volunteered to represent the 

University at the 2012 USA Science and Engineering 

Festival, held in Washington, D.C. Lee manned a 

booth sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate 

Admissions, the Graduate School, the Biomedical 

and Health Sciences Institute (BHSI), and the CVM’s 

department of population health. The experience gave 

her an opportunity to meet high school students, many 

of whom were already enrolling in college courses for 

Advanced Placement credit. Lee discussed research 

career opportunities, and provided information on UGA 

admissions, and the new Master of Biomanufacturing 

and Bioprocessing degree offered by the BHSI. 

(biomanufacturing.uga.edu/). The festival also featured 

technology demonstrations, contests, performances by 

television personalities, athletes and comedians, and over 

3,000 exhibits. 

New Faculty 

Holly Brown, Lecturer, Pathology 

Kevin Clarke, Clinical Associate Professor, Small 

Animal Medicine and Surgery 

Brenton Credille, Assistant Professor, Beef 

Production Medicine 

Allison Haley, Assistant Professor, Small Animal 

Medicine and Surgery 

Roberto Palomares, Assistant Professor, Beef 

Production Medicine 

Wing Yee Louisa Poon, Clinical Assistant 

Professor, Small Animal Medicine and Surgery 

Emmanuel Rollin Clinical Assistant Professor, 

Dairy Production Medicine 

Scott Secrest, Assistant Professor, Veterinary 

Biosciences & Diagnostic Imaging 

Kurt Selberg, Assistant Professor, Veterinary 

Biosciences & Diagnostic Imaging 


FacultyNews 

Jackwood, Edwards appointed to 

endowed professorships 

The CVM has appointed two long-term faculty 

members, both of whom head departments within the 

College, to endowed professorships. 

Mark W. Jackwood, who heads the College’s department 

of population health, was named the first John R. Glisson 

Professor of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Gaylen L. Edwards, 

who heads the College’s department of physiology 

and pharmacology, received the first Georgia Athletic 

Association Professorship in Veterinary Medicine, 

endowed by the UGA Athletic Association. 

Jackwood is a molecular virologist known for his work 

in avian diseases. He joined the College in 1989, after 

earning his MS degree at the University of Delaware, and 

his PhD in the department of poultry science at The Ohio 

State University. 

Edwards’ research focuses on how hindbrain controls 

of food and fluid intake behavior relay messages to the 

forebrain, and how defects in processing this information 

may contribute to the pathophysiology of various diseases. 

He joined the College in 1989 after earning his MS from 

the University of Idaho, and his DVM and PhD degrees 

from Washington State University. 

“These endowed professorships will allow the 

department heads to have some funding every year 

for their own research programs, and for supporting 

departmental needs,” said Sheila W. Allen, dean of the 

College. “We are grateful to the donors who honored Dr. 

John Glisson with this endowment, and to the Athletic 

Association for their support of the College.” 

New model explains differences in 

Lyme disease patterns 

Andrew W. Park, an assistant professor jointly 

appointed to the UGA Odum School of Ecology and 

the College of Veterinary Medicine’s department of 

infectious diseases, co-authored a study with two 

graduate students that sheds new light on the puzzling 

disparity in Lyme disease patterns. 

In the United States, most human cases of the tickborne 

disease occur in the Northeast, with a smaller 

cluster in the Midwest, despite data showing that 

bacteria causing the disease are equally common in 

ticks in both regions. Using information about the 

behavior of Lyme disease, and ecological data about 

ticks, researchers found that the timing of the tick 

lifecycle plays an important role in determining which 

type of Lyme disease will thrive in an area, and how 

severe the disease outbreaks tend to be. 

James Haven, a postdoctoral associate in the Odum 

School, was the lead author on the study. Krisztian 

Magori, a former postdoctoral associate in the Odum 

School who is now at Auburn University’s School of 

Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, also participated in the 

research. The study was published in the August 2012 

issue of the journal Epidemics. Research funding was 

provided by the James S. McDonnell Foundation. 


http://tinyurl.com/aj2hfxk 

Cornell CVM honors retired professor for distinguished service 

Barsanti 

Dr. Jeanne Barsanti, a professor 

emeritus who retired as head of the CVM’s 

department of Small Animal Medicine 

and Surgery in 2004, was recognized with 

the 2012 Daniel Elmer Salmon Award for 

Distinguished Alumni Service. The award is 

given annually by the Alumni Association 

of the College of Veterinary Medicine at 

Cornell University. 

The award honors Cornell University 

College of Veterinary Medicine graduates 

who have distinguished themselves 

in service to the profession, their 

communities, or to the college. 

During her 30-year career as a professor, 

clinician, and scientist, Dr. Barsanti won 

numerous teaching awards, and gained a 

reputation as a leader in the movement 

to bring technology into the classroom. 

Additionally, she is known internationally 

for her expertise in urologic disorders, and 

played a major role in the creation of the 

generalist and specialist tracks within the 

American College of Veterinary Internal 

Medicine’s (ACVIM) forum when she 

held various leadership positions within 

ACVIM. 

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FacultyNews 

CVM professor developing new vaccine 

to fight resurging mumps virus 

By James Hataway 

Mumps may seem like a disease of a bygone 

era to many people in the United States who, 

thanks to immunization programs, have been 

spared the fever, aches and characteristic 

swollen jawline of the once common viral 

infection. Biao He, PhD, a professor of 

infectious diseases and a Georgia Research 

Alliance distinguished investigator in the 

College of Veterinary Medicine, worries that 

a new strain of the virus is spreading, and it 

could lead to the widespread reintroduction 

of mumps. Now, thanks in part a $1.8 million 

grant from the National Institutes of Health, 

He and his team are working on a new 

vaccine to stop it. 

Although not typically a life-threatening 

disease, mumps can lead to serious health 

problems such as viral meningitis, hearing 

loss and pancreatitis; it can also cause 

miscarriage during early pregnancy. 

Vaccinations diminished the number 

of cases dramatically, and at one point 

it appeared that the U.S. was on pace to 

eradicate the disease. But two large outbreaks 

of the virus in 2006 and 2010 involving 

thousands of confirmed cases in the Midwest 

and Northeast put the hope of eradication 

on hold. He is concerned that the current 

vaccine, which has been in use since 1967, 

may be showing signs of weakness. 

“The virus is always evolving and mutating, 

and new viruses will emerge,” He said. “It’s 

only a matter of time until the old vaccine we 

have doesn’t work.” 

The current vaccine is commonly called 

the Jeryl Lynn strain and is named after the 

daughter of inventor Maurice Hilleman. It is 

based on a specific genotype of the mumps 

virus called genotype A. However, the 2006 

and 2010 mumps outbreaks were caused by 

another strain, genotype G. 

He 

Even more troubling is that most of the 

people who contracted mumps during the 

2006 and 2010 outbreaks had received the 

recommended two-dose vaccination in their 

early childhood, meaning that the virus 

was spreading even among the vaccinated 

population. 

“The question is: With this new genotype 

virus emerging in the vaccinated population, 

what do you do about it” He said. 

Some have suggested administering a third 

Jeryl Lynn vaccine to boost immunity later in 

life, but it is unclear if that approach would 

be successful. He suggests that modern 

scientific techniques have made the creation 

of some vaccines much easier, so producing 

a new mumps vaccine may be the most 

effective method of controlling the emerging 

threat. 

“In the past few years, we have taken 

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advantage of genetic engineering, and my lab 

is particularly good at engineering viruses,” He 

said. “We can take a virus, look at its genetic 

sequence, take bits and pieces away and generate 

a new virus with less virulence that will work as a 

vaccine.” 

“The No. 1 issue for us in making 

a pediatric vaccine is safety,” He 

said. “So far our testing suggests 

we are on the right track.” 

Before the advent of genetic engineering, the 

process of creating a vaccine could be intensely 

laborious, as researchers would have to pass the 

virus through many generations of reproduction 

until they found a naturally occurring weakened 

virus. This process can take long periods of time, 

and there is little guarantee that the weakened 

virus will work as a vaccine. 

Genetic engineering allows He’s lab to produce 

an effective and safe vaccine much more quickly. 

Vaccine safety became a topic of much 

discussion after British medical researcher 

Andrew Wakefield suggested that there was a link 

between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine 

and autism. However, his claims were found to 

be fraudulent, and Wakefield was barred from 

practicing medicine in the United Kingdom. 

Much of the fallout from the Wakefield case 

remains, and some people are still hesitant to have 

their children vaccinated, but He is insistent that 

administering vaccines to children is the safe and 

responsible thing to do. 

“The No. 1 issue for us in making a pediatric 

vaccine is safety,” He said. “So far our testing 

suggests we are on the right track.” 

Once He and his laboratory have devised a safe, 

reliable method to create vaccines for genotype G, 

they can apply that knowledge to rapidly produce 

vaccines for the other 12 mumps genotypes 

currently circulating in populations throughout 

the world. 

Health professionals were able to contain the 

outbreaks of 2006 and 2010, but He thinks that 

the large global population and ease with which 

people move from one location to another make 

humankind vulnerable to rapid disease spread. 

“It’s almost like a small fire; if it stays small, we 

can put it out,” He said. “But if conditions are 

right, and the wind begins to blow, the fire can 

take over.” 

Research reported in this publication was 

supported by the National Institutes of Health 

under award number 1R01AI097368-01A1. 

Mumps cells. Photo provided by Biao He. 


College of Veterinary 

Medicine 

Alumni Association 

Members of the Executive Board 

Flynn Nance (DVM ’83) 

dawgvet83@comcast.net 

President 

Michael Topper (DVM ’80) 

mjtopper@comcast.net 

Immediate Past President 

Chad Schmiedt (DVM ’00) 

cws@uga.edu 

President-elect 

Doris Miller (DVM ’76) 

miller@uga.edu 

Secretary 

Sheila Allen 

sallen01@uga.edu 

Dean; Ex-officio 

Thomas Hutto (DVM ’85) 

huttothomas@gmail.com 

Ginger Macaulay (DVM ’84) 

ginger@cherokeetrail.net 

Catherine McClelland (DVM ’83) 

catherinemcclelland@mindspring.com 

Bill Seanor (DVM ’83) 

jwseanor@attglobal.net 

Stephen Arbitter (DVM ’96) 

sma5168@windstream.net 

Charlie Broussard (DVM ’84) 

Charles.broussard@sp.intervet.com 

Scott Bryant (DVM ’94) 

scottvetboy@msn.com 

Alan Herring (DVM ’85) 

doc@dairy.net 

H 

Greetings from your Alumni Association! 

ello fellow Alumni! 

This March will mark the 50th anniversary of the UGA CVM’s Annual Veterinary 

Conference & Alumni Weekend. We hope you will join us for this opportunity to 

return to Athens to visit the College, and reconnect with classmates and friends. 

The event will be March 22-23, and will be held at The Classic Center. 

By the time we convene for our reunion weekend, site work for the UGA 

Veterinary Medical Learning Center is expected to be underway. 

Although a tremendous amount of effort and hard work from the College’s 

administration and staff, along with generous donations from the CVM alumni 

community, have gone into the project, the work is far from complete. We must 

continue to assist this project with financial support, so that upon its completion 

the University and our alma mater will have the finest facility in the United States. 

We are grateful to the state of Georgia, along with our generous donors, for making 

this milestone possible. Although the building will be a great enhancement to 

our College’s future, funding for equipment and furnishings are still needed to 

make this building a true state-of-the-art facility. It will be through our sustained 

financial support that many of these needs will be realized over time. To make a 

gift for this project, please contact the CVM’s Veterinary External Affairs office at 

706.542.1807 or give2vet@uga.edu. 

It is through our persistent encouragement that our CVM will continue to thrive! 

Thank you for your support. 

I look forward to seeing you in March! And, as always: GO DAWGS! 

Sincerely, 

Flynn Nance 

DVM, MS 

Class of 1983 

Jan Sosnowski Nichol (DVM ’80) 

maplerun@aol.com 

Jon Anderson (DVM ’03) 

jranderson77@gmail.com 

Jamie Fleming (DVM ’05) 

jmfleming8@gmail.com 

Rebecca Dixon (DVM ’02) 

rstinson@carolinaequinehospital.com 

F o l l o w t h e C V M a n d A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n ’ s c u r r e n t a c t i v i t i e s ! 

www.vet.uga.edu 

www.facebook.com/UGACVM 

twitter.com/ugavetmed 

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Alumni Profile: 

Koren Moore Custer (MPH ’11, DVM ’12) 

Assistant State Veterinarian/Assistant Director: 

West Virginia Department of Agriculture: Animal Health Division 

What made you choose the UGA CVM for 

your educational goals At the time that I 

applied for veterinary school (2006-2007), there was 

a reciprocity agreement between the state of West 

Virginia and UGA CVM that (if accepted) allowed me 

to pay in-state tuition rather than out-of-state. 

What aspects of the program were most 

beneficial to you The large animal, infectious 

disease, and pathology courses at UGA CVM, in 

addition to the veterinary public health courses. At 

the UGA College of Public Health, the epidemiology 

courses and policy courses were beneficial. 

What kind of degree did you graduate 

with What made you want to pursue this 

particular degree I graduated with both a DVM 

and an MPH (conferred by the UGA College of Public 

Health). I’ve always been interested in both animal and 

human medicine, as well as infectious diseases. When 

I discovered through the freshman orientation course 

at UGA CVM that I could work in all of those fields 

with those degrees, I immediately knew that was the 

educational course that I wanted to pursue. 

What are you doing now I am currently 

employed through the West Virginia Department of 

Agriculture as the assistant state veterinarian and the 

assistant director of the department’s Animal Health 

Division. I am involved with numerous activities, 

including: disease investigation and diagnosis, producer 

education and outreach, import/export, fair and festival 

animal inspections, necropsy, animal disease traceability, 

aquaculture, policy and law, and various administrative 

duties. 

How did your education here at the UGA 

CVM prepare you for your current position 

Of course, the core classes that are part of the UGA 

CVM curriculum were very important in my education. 

The elective courses were also essential, particularly 

those courses related to infectious disease and large 

animal-specific diseases. In addition to the classroom 

education that I received through the DVM program, 

the UGA CVM’s clinical coursework was immeasurably 

helpful in allowing me to understand veterinary 

medicine at the livestock production level. Being 

able to “talk shop” and communicate with a livestock 

producer is so important – I feel that the livestock 

production clinical rotations helped me to be able to 

do so. 

Was there a particular professor here that 

made a big impact on your time here There 

are many professors who impacted me during my time 

at UGA CVM. Drs. Mary Hondalus and Margie Lee 

helped guide me through the DVM/MPH program. Drs. 

David Reeves and Michael Overton helped me so much 

in understanding livestock production; my weeks in 

their clinical rotations were my favorites throughout 

all of veterinary school. Dr. Mark Ebell was a fantastic 

professor at UGA CPH – he helped me to think about 

public health in a whole new light. And finally, Dr. Craig 

Greene was a wonderful teacher and mentor to me 

throughout all five years. 

What’s your favorite part of your current 

job Although I love everything about my job, there 

are two aspects that are my absolute favorites. The 

first is getting a call from a private practitioner with 

an oddball case, and visiting the farm to conduct an 

epidemiological investigation and collect and work 

up samples to try to figure out what’s going on. The 

second is producer education and outreach. I love 

talking with producers about their livestock and their 

farms and getting to know the community. I always 

learn something new and it’s wonderful to sometimes 

be able to teach them something in return. 

Photo provided by Koren Moore Custer. 


ClassNotes 

Eugene T. Maddox (DVM 

’59) received the GVMA’s 

Dobbins-Mahaffey Advocacy 

Award. Maddox has 

received numerous honors 

for his service to GVMA 

and the community at 

large, including the 2006 

Veterinarian of the Year 

award, and recognition in 

2010 as Legislator of the Year 

by the Georgia Firefighters 

Maddox 

Association. He is active in 

his community and multiple professional organizations, 

including GVMA and AVMA. Maddox is retired from 

practicing veterinary medicine, and served multiple terms 

in the Georgia House of Representatives; he is the outgoing 

representative from Georgia’s 172nd district. 

Jim Jarrett (DVM ’60) was 

posthumously honored as 

an inductee to the Cattle 

Production Veterinarian 

Hall of Fame at the 

American Association 

of Bovine Practitioners 

(AABP) 45th annual 

conference in Montreal in 

September 2012. Jarrett 

was a widely-known expert 

in milk quality, dairy 

nutrition, and reproductive 

management. The Hall Jarrett 

of Fame is sponsored by 

the AABP, the Academy 

of Veterinary Consultants (AVC), Bovine Veterinarian, 

Merck Animal Health and Osborn Barr. Dr. Jarrett died in 

January 2005; he was 69. 

James E. Strickland (DVM ’61) was awarded the GVMA’s 

highest recognition, the J.T. Mercer, DVM Lifetime 

Achievement Award. Strickland served as both a past 

president (1991) and director of the GVMA. He has 

also served on numerous AVMA committees, and has 

held leadership positions in many other professional 

organizations. He is owner of Glennville Veterinary Clinic, 

where he still works part-time, and he is a cattle producer. 

Photo provided by Merck Animal Health 

James Heavner (DVM ’68) was inducted into the Fort 

Hill (Md.) High School Hall of Fame. Heavner is professor 

emeritus and clinical professor at Texas Tech University 

Health Science Center in Lubbock, Texas. As a branch 

chief at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Heavner 

is known worldwide for his work in the field of pain 

control and the pharmacology of local anesthetics. 

Timothy L. Montgomery 

(DVM ’83) received the 

2012 Veterinarian of the 

Year Award from GVMA. 

Montgomery served as 

president of GVMA in 

1999, and has held multiple 

leadership roles within the 

organization. He is owner 

of Dacula Animal Hospital, 

and currently serves as a 

councilman for the City of 

Montgomery 

Dacula, and as a member of 

the AVMA’s House of Delegates. 

Nina Marano (DVM ’84) relocated to Nairobi, Kenya, in 

June 2012 to become director of the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention’s Refugee Health Program 

in Africa. This program provides the evidence for 

development and implementation of guidelines for disease 

screening and treatment, tracks and reports illness in 

refugee populations, responds to disease outbreaks, and 

advises partners on health care for refugees that are being 

resettled to the United 

States from Africa. 

Denise Funk (DVM ’92) 

was confirmed as president 

of the GVMA during its 

2012 Fall Convention. 

Funk, a partner at 

Animal Medical Care of 

Gainesville, has practiced 

veterinary medicine for 

more than 20 years in 

her native Hall County. 

She is a member of the Funk 

AVMA, and the American 

Association of Animal Hospitals. She is also an active 

volunteer in her local community. 

Photo provided by the GVMA 

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Chris Griffin (DVM ’95) was recently elected president 

of the Association of Exotic Mammal Veterinarians 

(AEMV). He served as president of the Association of 

Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians (ARAV) from 

2009-2010. Dr. Griffin is the owner of and medical 

director for Griffin Avian and Exotic Veterinary Hospital 

in Kannapolis, N.C. 

Adam Eichelberger (DVM ’03) has been named the 

interim director of Animal Health Programs as part 

of a newly-announced leadership team for Clemson 

University Livestock-Poultry Health, which oversees 

animal health and the quality of meat and poultry 

products produced in South Carolina. 

Karen Bradley (DVM ’96) is the current delegate from 

Vermont for the AVMA’s House of Delegates (HOD), and 

serves as chair of the House Advisory Committee. Read 

a shout-out to Bradley on the blog Veterinary Legacy, 

by Dr. Donald F. Smith, professor of surgery and dean 

emeritus at Cornell University College of Veterinary 

Medicine. View the post at: http://tinyurl.com/bxucxux 

Michele Pfannenstiel (DVM ’06) has joined MaineStock 

as a managing partner to oversee food safety and product 

development. As part of her new duties, Pfannenstiel 

is establishing a quality-assurance program that will 

extend from farmers to distributors. MaineStock works 

with farmers to raise livestock, and create safe meat that 

can be sold at an affordable price, while maintaining the 

high standards required for certification by U.S.D.A. 

Organic and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners 

Association. 

Obituaries 

James R. Hundley (DVM ’56) Heathsville, Va., 

May 18, 2012..V.C. Lovell (DVM ’61) Gainesville, 

Ga., March 22, 2012..Harry W. Taylor (DVM 

’66) Tallahassee, Fla., Nov. 9, 2012..Roderick C. 

Jordan (DVM ’68) Harkers Island, N.C., Oct. 20, 

2012..Charles Hodges “Chuck” Manning (DVM 

’73) Washington, N.C., Sept. 22, 2012..Keith W. 

Chapin (DVM ’74) West Palm Beach, Fla., March 2, 

2012..Walter Glynn Griffin (DVM ’78) Waycross, 

Ga., June 12, 2012..Michael M. Veitch (DVM ’78) 

Lexington Park, Md., Sept. 18, 2012..Newton P. 

Eunice (DVM ’80) Pelham, Ga., April 13, 2012.. 

Jim Stortz (DVM ’05) Avon, Colo., June 26, 2012. 

Frederick N. Thompson 

(DVM ’65), retired CVM 

faculty, died in Athens, 

Ga., on Dec. 16, 2012. 

After receiving his DVM, 

Thompson served in the 

U.S. Army for two years 

at Fort Meade, Md., rising 

to the rank of Captain. He 

also practiced veterinary 

medicine briefly before 

Thompson 

pursuing doctoral studies 

at Iowa State University. After receiving his PhD 

in veterinary medicine from Iowa State in 1973, 

Thompson returned to the University of Georgia 

where he taught and conducted research in the UGA 

College of Veterinary Medicine until his retirement 

in 2000. 

We want to know what you’re up to! 

Your classmates want to know what’s happening in 

your life. Drop us a line. And please include your 

current contact information, including your phone 

number and email, to help us keep our alumni 

database up to date. 

Email Marti Brick: 

vetalums@uga.edu or 

brickm@uga.edu 

OR 

Fax: 

706.583.0242

Continuing Education Courses: 

Below are our scheduled Continued Education Courses. CE dates and topics are 

subject to change. 

Questions about CE Contact Melissa Kilpatrick at vetmedce@uga.edu or 

706.542.1451, or online at www.vet.uga.edu/ce 

March 22-23 

May 5 

June 27-28 

June 29-30 

July 26-27 

July 28-29 

October 3-4 

October 5-6 

October 19-20 

December 7-8 

December 14-15 

The 50th Annual Veterinary Conference & Alumni Weekend 

Practical Dentistry: Periodontal Therapy/Surgical Extractions 

Arthroscopy 

Advanced Laparoscopy 

Flexible GI Endoscopy 

Basic Rigid Endoscopy 

Equine Encore 

Small Animal Surgery 

Internal Medicine 

Exotic Endoscopy 

Outpatient Medicine 


Pet Memorials 

Meaningful to clients, veterinarians and 

the College 

“Pet memorials have been great for our business. 

They help us remember clients and their pets, 

as well as support the UGA College of Veterinary 

Medicine’s goal to build a new teaching hospital. 

The feedback we get is priceless.” 

— Dr. Roy Brogdon, DVM ’73 

Cleveland Veterinary Hospital 

Cleveland, Georgia 

For more information, please contact us: 

Phone: 706.542.1807 

E-mail: THE give2vet@uga.edu 

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA 

Web: www.vet.uga.edu/GO/memorial 


THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA 


Dr. Roy Brogdon, co-‐owner of Cleveland Veterinary Hospital, 

donates regularly through our pet memorial program. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Annual Veterinary Conference 1964-2013 

The University of Georgia® College of Veterinary Medicine 

th 

March 22-23, 2013 

The Classic Center • Athens, Georgia 

For more information, visit the website: www.vet.uga.edu/reunion.php 

or contact Melissa Kilpatrick: 706.542.1451 or melissak@uga.edu 

For class campaign giving, contact Marti Brick: 706.542.7049 or brickm@uga.edu

2013 is groundbreaking year for VMLC 

An estimated 600 people turned out to help celebrate the ceremonial groundbreaking of the 

Veterinary Medical Learning Center, held Nov. 9 in Athens. 

Work on the site where the CVM’s new teaching hospital and classroom facility will be 

constructed began in October, with the dismantling of the fencing and building used as the former 

Snyder Barn. The fencing and barn materials will be re-purposed, as part of the UGA Material Reuse 

Program. Much of the re-purposed materials are already in use at the CVM farm in Oconee County. 

Construction work on the site is expected to begin in February 2013. 

The $98 million facility will be paid for by $65 million in state funding, with the balance coming 

from private donations. As of Dec. 31, 2012, $24.5 million had been raised in private donations, said 

Kathy Bangle, director of veterinary external affairs for the CVM. The external affairs staff is working 

hard to raise the additional $8.5 million that is needed for equipment and furnishings. 


Our Goal: 

$32.7 Million 

$26M 

$19.5M 

$13M 

$6.5M 

Caption for above photo, from left: Denise Funk (DVM ’92), president of the 

Georgia Veterinary Medical Association (GVMA); G. Scott Bryant (DVM ’94), 

president of the South Carolina Association of Veterinarians; Ann Rychlicki 

(DVM ’14), immediate past president of the student chapter of the American 

Veterinary Medical Association; C. Gary Bullard (DVM ’69), a past president 

of the UGA Veterinary Alumni Association, and GVMA, and member of the 

CVM Campaign Steering Committee; Larry R. Corry (DVM ’66), past president 

of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), and member of 

the CVM Campaign Steering Committee; Dean Sheila W. Allen; Douglas Allen 

Jr., former hospital director for the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital, and 

among the first to highlight UGA’s need for a new teaching hospital; Dave 

Selleck (DVM ’78), chair of the CVM Campaign Steering Committee; Jack 

Sexton (DVM ’78), member of the CVM Campaign Steering Committee; Flynn 

Nance (DVM ’83), current president of the UGA Veterinary Alumni Association; 

Tim Montgomery (DVM ’83), a past-president of the UGA Veterinary 

Alumni Association and current GVMA delegate for the AVMA. 


If you would like to donate toward the 

project, contact our Office of Veterinary 

External Affairs at 706.542.1807 or 

give2vet@uga.edu. For more information 

about the VMLC, or to donate online, visit 

vet.uga.edu/vmlc

Why I give: Katie Beacham 

In 2010, Atlanta resident Katie Beacham and her yellow 

lab mix Asa were referred by her veterinarian to the 

UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital for emergency surgery 

to remove Asa’s ruptured spleen. 

Surgical resident Kevin Coleman, DVM, performed the 

surgery on Asa, who was subsequently diagnosed with 

hemangiosarcoma, an especially aggressive cancer. Asa 

was given only a few months to live. 

With Coleman’s encouragement, Beacham met with 

oncology resident Rebecca Regan, DVM, to understand 

Asa’s quality-of-life options. Beacham chose to pursue 

chemotherapy for Asa, and he lived a full additional two 

years before his cancer returned. 

He passed away in August of 2012 at the age of 14. 

Donating to the UGA CVM, she said, is just one way 

she can repay the CVM for the quality services and 

compassionate care her pet received. 

“The UGA College of Veterinary Medicine gave me 

a precious gift when they saved my dog, and helped us 

have two more quality years together,” she said. “Donating 

is a small way that I can pay it forward in expectation 

that the school will also give high-quality, life-saving, 

compassionate care to other families as it fulfills its mission 

of training future veterinarians and researching cures for 

animal illnesses and conditions.” 

Beacham has donated to the Veterinary Medicine 

Hospital Building Fund, which is being used toward 

building the new Veterinary Medical Learning Center, 

as she personally understands the blessing of having a 

renowned veterinary institution in the state. 

Additionally, she has donated to the Sundown Surgery 

Fund, which assists families with the cost of an unexpected 

major pet emergency. 

“I was blessed to have some ‘rainy day’ savings to 

cover Asa’s emergency and ongoing care,” she said, “and I 

would hate for money to have been the deciding factor in 

whether to save his life.” 

Beacham, who manages corporate philanthropy and 

community involvement for a large global company, likens 

her reasoning to give to the CVM in her personal life to 

the same basis of reasoning she uses to make decisions at 

work. 

“A big part of my job is to make strategic philanthropic 

decisions for my company, based on both social 

impact and business value,” she said. “I apply the same 

perspective to my own giving: what causes matter to me; 

where can my giving make an impact on those causes; and, 

who will make the best use of my donation. I also want to 

see results and know the organization is a good steward. 

The College of Veterinary Medicine is a slam dunk–I’ve 

seen it in action and personally benefited.” 

Donating to the CVM was an easy way to honor and 

directly support the veterinary residents and students who 

took such great care of Asa, and served as trusted advisors 

in a particularly difficult time, she said. 

“Their care was cutting edge; their bedside manner and 

patience with me, and my endless questions, qualified 

them as saints. And, they were honest, respectful and 

compassionate when it came time to make hard decisions,” 

she said. “Now, donating to the CVM is a habit, and I will 

continue to give each year in thanks and good memories.” 


If you would like to make a gift to the UGA College of 

Veterinary Medicine, contact our Office of Veterinary 

External Affairs at 706.542.1807 or give2vet@uga.edu. 

Check out Asa in our Picture Your Pet winners slideshow 

online at www.vet.uga.edu/GO/photo-contest.php 

Beacham and Asa. Photo courtesy of Alecia Lauren Photography. 



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Dates to remember: 

March 22-23 

April 5 

April 11 

April 19 

May 4 

June 26-30 

June 28 

July 7-13 

July 19-23 

August 11 

September 25 

Continuing Education Courses: 


Annual Open House 

Phi Zeta Ceremony 

Honors and Awards Banquet 

CVM Graduation (ticket required) 

Emerald Coast Veterinary Conference (GVMA annual meeting) 

UGA Alumni Reception (GVMA annual meeting: Sandestin, Fla.) 

VetCAMP 

AVMA Annual Convention (Chicago) 

White Coat Ceremony 

Vet School for a Day 

CE dates and topics are subject to change. 

Questions about CE Contact Melissa Kilpatrick at vetmedce@uga.edu or 706.542.1451, or online at www.vet.uga.edu/ce 

March 22-23 

May 5 

June 27-28 

June 29-30 

July 26-27 

July 28-29 

October 3-4 

October 5-6 

October 19-20 

December 7-8 

December 14-15 


Practical Dentistry: Periodontal Therapy/Surgical Extractions 

Arthroscopy 


Flexible GI Endoscopy 

Basic Rigid Endoscopy 

Equine Encore 

Small Animal Surgery 

Internal Medicine 

Exotic Endoscopy 

Outpatient Medicine 


This publication is paid for by private donations, and is available online at www.vet.uga.edu. For future mailings, if you would prefer to receive 

our Aesculapian or Annual Report electronically, please email us at vetnews@uga.edu and tell us what email address you would like us 

to notify when the publication goes online. Thank you for your support of the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine!

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