Greetings, Friends and Colleagues!
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I can’t believe August has already arrived and we are gearing up for the fall semester! It has been an amazing Spring and Summer for our family. We have learned so much about Wisconsin and the School of Veterinary Medicine, and already had the opportunity to meet many of the incredible people who make up our community. I wanted to offer my deepest thanks to Mark Markel and his wife, LuAnn Shay, who have been great friends and mentors during this time of transition. Mark has set the School on a strong course, spearheading the development of a new veterinary hospital, a revised curriculum, and key expansions in our faculty and staff.
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There are three key goals I have over these next few months. The first is learning more about the people who make up our incredible school, university, and Wisconsin community. During August and September, I’ll be hosting listening sessions so we can get to know one another and discuss opportunities to grow. It is important to me to also meet veterinarians across our state, friends of the School, and partners within the university as well as agriculture and biomedicine. This will mean some road trips!
My second goal is to work with you on developing easy and open ways for us to communicate. Open and thoughtful communication are hallmarks of a healthy and thriving organization. This newsletter will continue to be a way we distribute information, and we will look for additional paths to connect.
My third goal is to continue to make progress on key on-going projects and objectives. These include ensuring a smooth transition to our new DVM curriculum, collaborating to make certain our new and renovated spaces support outstanding work, deploying renovations in Hanson and the South building which the Provost recently funded to support research, and focusing on recruiting and retaining the highest caliber faculty and staff. During the Spring of 2025 we will revise our School’s strategic plan. That process will focus on longer-range goals and will involve staff, students, house officers, faculty, and other members of our community.
Until the next time, On Wisconsin!
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Reminder: Join Dean Levine for an all-SVM town hall tomorrow, Friday, August 2 at 12 p.m. in room 2360.
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UW Veterinary Care News
Update from Chris Snyder, director, UW Veterinary Care, and associate dean for clinical affairs
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We’re thrilled to have our 2024 interns and residents on board. Each year, the SVM and UWVC welcome a new group of interns and residents — graduate veterinarians who come here to learn from our exceptional specialists while providing top-notch clinical care and services. They are the best and brightest and bring tremendous value to our school, our teaching hospital and the animals they treat. Read more and meet our 2024 interns and residents.
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A major milestone occurred last week as our new state-of-the-art interventional suite completed its first catheterization procedure. Popcorn, a 7-month-old Terrier mix, had a stent placed across her severely narrowed pulmonic valve. Congrats to the whole team that made it a great success (see photos below).
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Finally, we would like to send our gratitude to Mark Markel for his many years of service, including 12 as dean, and offer a warm welcome to incoming Dean Jon Levine. With our new spaces in SVM North open and exciting renovations underway at SVM South, we’re excited about what the future holds!
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Congratulations to PhD candidate Marcos Isidoro-Ayza (advisor Bruce Klein, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology) whose report about the pathogenesis of the fungal disease, White Nose Syndrome, that has decimated bat populations all over the United States was selected for publication in the July 12, 2024, issue of the journal Science – and, in fact, was featured on the cover. More coverage here.
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Join us is welcoming Dr. Logan Funk as an assistant professor in cardiology. Logan was a UW veterinary student and is back with us. In addition, we’re pleased to announce Dr. Gwen Levine will be joining the faculty as a clinical associate professor in radiology – we’re looking forward to welcoming her next month!
Also please join UWVC in welcoming Samantha Flint to the SA Float team as a veterinary nurse; Jessica Schruck and Brianne Mill are joining Clinical Pathology as a medical lab technicians; the Large Animal Hospital welcomes Megan Beedy as a veterinary nurse; and Sarah Short, CVT, is taking on a new role as a veterinary nurse in SA Surgery.
Please register for our Veterinary Medicine Education Day August 8th, from 8:30-3:00 at the SVM. This year we will be joined by Dr. Erin Malone, Dr. Peggy Barr, and Dr. Pedro Diaz who will share tips and tricks for integrating generative AI, active learning in large classes, and designing case-based instruction activities. We hope you will be willing to share your innovations in education as well!
The Bovine Germplasm Movement Plan (BGMP) provides movement guidance criteria to allow domestic movement of bovine semen, embryos, and high genomic merit cattle that have no evidence of infection and are in a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) Control Area. The BGMP is the result of a collaborative effort by industry, state, federal, and veterinary diagnostic laboratory representatives. Funding was provided by the USDA National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program (NADPRP) to UW-Madison from March 2022 to June 2024. Read the full Bovine Germplasm Movement Plan (BGMP) guidance to learn more.
It’s always fun to welcome grandparents and their grandchildren to the Veterinary Medicine major at Grandparents University in July! Led by Dr. Karen Herschberger-Baker, this past month potential future veterinarians and their grandparents explored the world of animal care through fun and exciting hands-on activities (see photos below).
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