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shelter medicine program refers to a specialized veterinary practice that focuses on the health and well-being of animals living in animal shelters or rescue organizations.
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In addition, selected fellows will interact with other academic and clinical programs with whom both programs regularly interact, including other university
shelter medicine programs as well as national animal welfare organizations.
Can veterinarians already working to help homeless pets obtain advanced skills and certification at one of the world's leading
shelter medicine programs without leaving their busy practices behind?
Excessive noise levels are just one of the stressors shelters need to be more aware of, says Kelley Bollen, MS, CABC, of the Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Maddie's
® Shelter Medicine Program at UF (MSMP) offers training to veterinary students, practicing veterinarians, and shelter practitioners.
When she was an animal control officer, Dr. Kate F. Hurley, now director of the
Koret Shelter Medicine Program at Davis» Center for Companion Animal Health, said she saw dogs jump through plate glass windows when fireworks went off.
Dr. Newbury is the new Director of the University of
Wisconsin Shelter Medicine Program in Madison, WI and Assistant Professor of Shelter Medicine in the School of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Medical Sciences.
The Koret Foundation has played an instrumental role in developing the Koret
Shelter Medicine Program with multi-million-dollar five - year grants, the first one starting in 2005.
The
Tufts Shelter Medicine Program at Cummings School was founded in 2006 with the mission «to care for underserved animals in our community while providing hands - on learning opportunities to veterinary students.»
Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program offers training to veterinary students, veterinarians, and shelter practitioners; on - campus and online certificate programs, shelter medicine.
In April 2014, Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program partnered with the ASPCA to bring you our Veterinary Forensics Conference, which was held at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine in Gainesville, Florida.
Getting more pets into homes with training, behavior modification, social media and adoption program innovation will be the focus of the Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program track at the Purdue Veterinary Medicine 2013 Fall Conference.
In 2013 Dr. Wright tripled the number of cat adoptions at Kent County Animal Shelter using strategies she learned from both the UF Shelter Medicine and UC Davis Koret
Shelter Medicine Program websites.
Last month, UF Maddie's Shelter
Shelter Medicine Program alum Dr. Katherine Polak helped facilitate the first ever Shelter Management Workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, which united shelters from throughout the country for the first time ever.
In a presentation at the University of Florida's 7th Annual Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Conference, UF Maddie's
Shelter Medicine Program shelter alum Katherine Polak, DVM, MPH, MS, DACVMP explored the results of a retrospective study characterizing the infectious diseases carried by clinically affected cats from four large - scale cat hoarding investigations.
They will connect you with either a Veterinary Support Services (VSS) consultant, or a faculty member from the Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program depending on the nature of your question.
«I'm very proud Maddie's Fund has supported the training of the veterinary students, interns and residents who were invited
from shelter medicine programs,» said Dr. Peek.
The most recent issue of Florida Veterinarian magazine interviewed our own Dr. Cynda Crawford about the role played by Maddie's
Shelter Medicine Program during last year's canine influenza outbreak.
Dr. Sandra Newbury and the UW
Shelter Medicine Program team continues to work to help shelters respond to the many challenges this new respiratory disease has presented.
Maddie's Fund ® has awarded the University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine a $ 1.7 million grant to support the first three years of a comprehensive six -
year shelter medicine program.
The Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program Award has been presented to a graduating DVM student who exemplifies compassion for shelter pets, excellent interaction with shelter clients and proficiency in Shelter Medicine at the annual Honors and Awards ceremony since 2010.
On January 8, Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program joined a lecture by Donald Cleary of the National Canine Research Council on The History of Canine Discrimination.
Two weeks ago in Vinh City, Vietnam, former Maddie's
Shelter Medicine Program resident Dr. Katherine Polak teamed up with Adam Parascandola from Humane Society International to deliver a series of lectures and tabletop exercises to help build the capacity of local groups working throughout the country to tackle the dog and cat meat trade.
During her visit, Dr. Cho is learning from Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program faculty about shelter management, cat population control, pediatric spay / neuter, and other shelter medicine topics.
At the helm of the outbreak response was Dr. Newbury, providing shelter medicine protocols that were implemented by a huge flood of veterinary students, residents and interns who answered the call for help from veterinary
school shelter medicine programs across the country.
Preference will be given to students in the Certificate in
Shelter Medicine Program if there are insufficient funds to support all of the applications.
She completed an internship in Madison based at Dane County Humane Society after which she split her time between working as the first veterinarian of a small private shelter in Janesville, Wisconsin (Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin), and in a research assistant position with the new University of Wisconsin
Shelter Medicine Program led by Dr. Sandra Newbury.
Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program invites you to connect with experts and learn about new discoveries at the 7th Annual Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Conference.
All students who enroll in the online Maddie's ®
Shelter Medicine Program courses will pay in - state tuition for University of Florida graduate - level courses.
When the University of Florida Maddie's
Fund Shelter Medicine program offered their first online class last fall, she immediately signed up, and she will complete the certificate this December.