Winter/Spring 2012 Aesculapian Magazine - University of Georgia ...

2011 Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society Faculty Induction Ceremony
Hines
Dr. Murray Hines III, professor of pathology
and head of the Tifton Veterinary Diagnostic
and Investigational Laboratory (TVDIL), was
presented with the Charles Dobbins Award
for Excellence in Service. He was recognized
for strengthening the laboratory’s historically
solid relationship with producer groups and
veterinarians by maintaining a “customer
focused” culture, and for his involvement in a
number of outreach activities.
Dr. Sreekumari Rajeev, an assistant professor in infectious
diseases based at TVDIL, was the recipient of the Outstanding
Laboratory Service Award. Dr. Rajeev heads the bacteriology and
mycology sections of TVDIL, and her laboratory is the only laboratory
in the state of Georgia approved by the National Veterinary
Services Laboratory for performing culture of Mycobacterium
avium subsp. paratuberculosis, the cause of Johne’s disease in
ruminants.
Drs. Shannon Holmes and David Jiménez
were co-recipients of the Outstanding Hospital
Service Award. They were recognized
for implementing new technologies in the
Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s radiology service,
such as voice-recognition software that
directly transcribes clinical records to the hospital’s
electronically-based medical records.
Holmes
Dr. Michelle Barton, the Fuller E. Callaway
Professor of Large Animal Internal Medicine, received the David
Tyler Award for Advances in Teaching. Dr. Barton was recognized
for her role in implementing the automated response systems in
the CVM’s classrooms and for being a leader in implementing
new technologies for instructional use.
Dr. Robert M. Gogal Jr., an associate professor in anatomy and
radiology, received the Pfizer Award for
Research Excellence for the quantity and
quality of the research manuscripts he has
produced in the last three years, as well
as the service he provides to the scientific
community.
Dr. Andrew Park was the recipient of the
John M. Bowen Award for Excellence in
Gogal
Research. Dr. Park’s work aims to describe
observed patterns in animal diseases, including the emergence
of macro-parasite drug resistance in ruminants, the evolutionary
escape of equine influenza from vaccine treatments and the complex
spatiotemporal patterns of epizootic hemorrhagic disease in
white-tailed deer. He is an assistant professor in the Odum School
of Ecology with a joint appointment in the department of infectious
diseases at the CVM.
Dr. Chad Schmiedt was awarded the Clinical
Research Award in recognition of the
progress he has made toward understanding
the mechanisms of post-transplantation
hypertension. Dr. Schmiedt is an assistant
professor of soft tissue surgery in the
department of small animal medicine and
surgery.
Schmiedt
2011 Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society Inductees
Front row: Glenn Caldwell, Honorary Inductee;
Dr. Rabindranath De La Fuente, associate professor
of endocrinology & reproduction; Carolyn
Hodo (DVM ‘11); Catherine Ray (DVM ‘12);
Amanda Bergren (DVM ‘12); Jessica Mobley
(DVM ‘12); Olivia Lamberth (DVM ‘12); Elizabeth
Jobe (DVM ‘12); Dr. Paula Krimer, assistant
professor of pathology; Bob Storey, Honorary
Inductee; Second row: Dr. Kevin Keel, assistant
research scientist; Dr. Tamas Nagy, assistant professor
of pathology; Sylvia Ferguson (DVM ‘11);
Koren Moore (DVM ‘11); Lindsey Hammond
Wilkins (DVM ‘11); Ashley Embly (DVM ‘11);
Charlotte Tate (DVM ‘11); Andrew Crouch (DVM
‘11); Dr. Uriel Blas-Machado, associate professor
of pathology; Dr. Joerg Mayer, associate professor
of zoological medicine; Dr. Francis Milward
(back). Back row, left side: Dr. Murray Hines III,
professor of pathology; Dr. Sonja Zabel, assistant
professor of dermatology.
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