Vet Cetera magazine 2015

RETIREMENT
GARY LAWSON / UNIVERSITY MARKETING
Sandra Morgan
DVM, Associate Professor, Veterinary Toxicologist,
Department of Physiological Sciences and Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory
Dr. Morgan earned her DVM degree from
Oklahoma State University (Class of 1980). She
worked one year as a sole practitioner in northern
Oklahoma before joining the faculty at
OSU where she has worked for the last 34 years.
Her first position was an ambulatory instructor;
her rotation was known as being very hands-on
with visits to the OSU Dairy twice daily to care
for 300-plus head of cattle. She later transitioned
to a position that split her time between
Physiological Sciences and OADDL.
“I would have liked to have kept doing a little
ambulatory work along with the teaching and
diagnostics,” Morgan says. “I enjoyed the students
and getting to know the clients.”
She considers her accomplishment to be
teaching students clinically relevant information
in a way they can remember it.
“I want to be remembered for being a good
teacher and for helping clients diagnose challenging
cases.”
She plans to spend retirement helping her
husband, former faculty member Dr. Gregor
Morgan, care for their farm and cattle, being
with her grandsons Luke and Huck, helping
her father with his garden and going fly-fishing
every chance she gets.
“Younger faculty do need older faculty as
mentors,” she offers. “That way they won’t be
as clueless as I was. I want to thank my family,
all of my wonderful instructors, my classmates
and former students for making the job
so much fun. Thank you to the clients who let
students work on their animals, the diagnostic
lab clients who challenged my brain, and all of
the people I was privileged to work with over
the years in this awesome profession.”
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