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C V M F a c u l t y P r o f i l e s♥ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GINI BARRETT,Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy,joined the college in August 2002, as amember of the founding faculty. Her rolehas been to develop and co-direct theVeterinary Issues course, which exploresthe ethical, cultural, legal and politicalforces and social issues that are shapingthe veterinary profession.Professor Barrett has an extensiveGini Barrett background in public policy analysis andadvocacy, having worked as both acorporate strategist and a social activist. She has worked diverseissues ranging from human rights and habitat preservation toworker safety and freedom of speech. She has represented groupsas divergent as agribusiness, real estate, motion picture andtelevision producers, and humane organizations. Since 1990 hermain focus has been public policy and politics related to animalwelfare.Raised on a cattle ranch in western Kansas, Gini has looked atanimal issues from all sides. A lifelong animal rescuer andhorsewoman, she worked closely with the California CondorRecovery Program and served on the Board of the Mountain LionFoundation in the 1980s. In the 1990s she spent six years on theBoard for LA City’s animal shelters.Professor Barrett led American Humane Association’s Los Angelesoffice from 1997 to 2001, managing the program to protectanimals working in films, and serving as their nationalspokesperson on a wide variety of animal issues, including animalhoarding, animal fighting and dangerous dogs. From 2000 to 2003Gini served as the Special Master to the Los Angeles CountySuperior Court on a complex environmental case involving awild animal sanctuary. She has been a consultant to DiscoveryCommunications and Animal Planet since 2001. Professor Barrettserves on the Board of Humane Farm Animal Care, a nonprofitorganization that utilizes market forces to improve the welfare offarm animals.DR. STEVE WALDHALM, PHD, DVM, isProfessor and Assistant Dean for FacultyAffairs at the College of VeterinaryMedicine. He was born in the Midwest,and his family moved to the westernstates as his father pursued a career inmicrobiology teaching and research. Stevecompleted his bachelor’s degree at theUniversity of Idaho and his PhD inveterinary physiology from WashingtonState University. During his years as aSteve Waldhalm graduate teaching assistant at the WSU-CVM he taught two married veterinary students, Gary and ShirleyJohnston. Steve also completed the DVM degree at WashingtonState before accepting his first faculty appointment to helpestablish a new college of veterinary medicine at Mississippi StateUniversity.At Mississippi State University, Dr. Steve Waldhalm developedtraditional physiology courses in a body systems format. He laterhelped persuade the faculty of the college to transition the basicscience curriculum to a Problem-Based learning (PBL) paradigm,and he helped lead this curriculum to adopt student-ownedcomputers as a requirement for advancing the life-long learningconcept. He became a speaker at many scientific meetings andconsultant to academic institutions on PBL and on bringingcomputer technology into the classroom. His physiology researchincluded application of embryo transfer technologies to domesticand wild animal species, including deer and bobcats.Theseexperiences prepared Dr.Waldhalm to join the founding faculty ofthe WesternU College of Veterinary Medicine in 2002, as Professorand Coordinator of Problem-Based learning.Dr.Waldhalm and his wife, Marilyn, live in Upland, CA andvicariously enjoy the experiences of their 6 adult children and 2(soon to be 3) grandchildren. Mrs.Waldhalm is an event plannerfor Claremont’s Harvey Mudd College. She and Steve enjoy travel,and he pursues hobbies of sailing and woodworking while sheenjoys their cat, Edgar, and the fruits of her backyard orchard.APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO THE CVM INCREASEFOR THE 4TH CONSECUTIVE YEARApplications for admission to the College of Veterinary Medicine atWesternU were due October 2, 2006, for matriculation in fall semester,2007. This year the College received 655 applications for 100 seats in theClass of 2011, up from 612 last year.File review is now in progress, and on-campus applicant interviews willbe scheduled in January and February. Letters of acceptance go out inmid-March. Members of the Admissions and Scholastic StandingCommittee include Dr. Peggy Barr, Chair, and Drs. Carlos Crocker,Oscar Illanes, Shawn Kari (community veterinarian), Richard Jaffe(community veterinarian), Peggy Schmidt, John Tegzes, Ron Terra,Christine Tindal, and Mike Weigand (community veterinarian).ADMISSION YEAR 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007Application numbersMale 35 84 88 121 118Female 154 331 353 491 537Total 189 413 441 612 655Matriculation numbersMale 12 10 20 34Female 73 68 85 71Total 85 78 105 105 ~1008
10th Biennial Symposium on WildlifeUtilisation and Conservation, South AfricaBy Alicia Bauchman, DVM 2008IN THE SUMMER OF 2006, Lindsay Tangeman (DVM 2009),Amber Anderson (DVM 2009) and I had the awesomeprivilege to be part of an adventure we will not soonforget…Africa!Eighty veterinary students from twenty-two countriesconverged at the Onderstepoort faculty for the 10th BiennialSymposium on Wildlife Utilisation and Conservation in SouthAfrica (SYMCO) last June. Organized by 4th and 5th yearstudents from South Africa, and run by a Veterinary Safaricompany, it was a 16 day course introducing veterinarystudents to the finer points of wildlife and conservationmedicine.We visited four African wildlife parks: Kruger National Park,Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve, St. Lucia Estuary, andPilanesberg National Park.We spent three nights in Kruger andit was undoubtedly one of the highlights. Early morning rhinoand elephant immobilizations were amazing beyond words,while on dawn and dusk game drives, we were lucky enoughto see all the wildlife Kruger had to offer, including seeing the“Big 5” on our first morning.Hluhluwe-iMfolozi offered asmuch wildlife as Kruger, but in a smaller area, allowing us tosee the elusive black rhino. One afternoon was spent with parkveterinarian Dr. Dave Cooper, learning how to shoot targetswith tranquilizer guns.At Cape Vidal we relaxed on the IndianOcean beach, and learned about the unique ecosystem of St.Lucia Estuary.A river crocodile and hippopotamus cruise wasfollowed by cultural night, where every country brought theirown samples of food and favorites.At Pilanesberg NationalPark, where we spent 3 nights, we immobilized lions (one ofthe most amazing experiences imaginable) and rhinos.This wasour last stop on tour, and definitely one of the best!I would highly encourage anyone interested in wildlife, and insocializing with amazing veterinary students from around theworld, to apply for SYMCO 2007.There were only fourAmericans on tour (three of which were from WesternU), sowe definitely need the representation! It’s guaranteed toinfluence your outlook on the important roles that we will allface as veterinarians.9
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