College of Veterinary Medicine

Awards and Recognitions

2007 Distinguished Veterinary Alumnus Awards 


Dr. Nancy Gillett (DVM '76) for Excellence in Teaching and Research - Dr. Gillett is currently the President of Global Preclinical Services for Charles River Laboratories. She has distinguished herself with outstanding contributions in toxicological pathology that have had a profound impact on animal and human health.
 
Provost Robert Bates, Dr Roger McClellan, Dr Gillett,  Dean Bayly
Dr Gillett

Dr. David Anderson
(DVM '61) for Excellence in Teaching and Research - Dr. Anderson served as the Dean of the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine from 1975 to 1996. His work in medical microbiology and avian medicine includes authoring 30 publications dealing with avian disease, and is most noted for his work uncovering the relationship between environmental conditions, and infectious agents.
 

Provost Robert Bates, Dr David Anderson, Dean Bayly
Dr Anderson

Dr. Michael Hauser
(DVM '84) for Excellence in Practice - Dr. Hauser is currently the Director of the Dubai Equine Hospital, a position he has held since its inception in 1992. He is credited with being the primary force behind bringing leading edge equine medicine and surgery to the Middle East.
 

Provost Robert Bates, Dr. Michael Hauser 
Dean Bayly, Norm Lewis
Dr Hauser

Dr. Valery Shean
(DVM '88) for Outstanding Service (she is unable to attend the banquet) - For the past 15 years, Dr. Shean has worked in Uganda, with the Karamojong tribe, dedicating her veterinary talents to those less fortunate. She cares and treats local animals, whiled developing better food stocks with drought resistant crops, and even establishing a program to feed widows and orphans using much of her own money. All this within the confines of a remote area, often beset with the violence of civil unrest.


Dr. Linda Cork
(PhD '74) Distinguished Graduate Alumnus Award - Dr. Cork is the Chair of the Comparative Medicine Department at Stanford University, a position she has held since 1994. Cited as being a superb writer and accomplished speaker, Dr. Cork has authored, or co-authored over 150 scientific manuscripts principally in the fields of neuropathology and comparative medicine. She is the first woman, and one of only 16 veterinarians ever elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.
 


Provost Robert Bates, Dr Linda Cork, Dean Bayly
Dr Cork


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