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University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
January 5th, 2025
The UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital hosted its inaugural Rainbow Bridge Walk in the fall of 2024. This event was created by the hospital’s licensed clinical counselor, Noelle Browning, as an opportunity to unite the community through shared celebration of the human-animal bon...
CVM Teaching Apiary assists in development
August 5th, 2023
Dr. Joerg Mayer, DVM, walks into the teaching apiary outside of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Athens like he’s one of them – no suit, no smoke, just him and them.It’s okay. They know him there. His students know the bees, too, because Mayer pioneered one of the most robu...
UGA takes multi-faceted approach to brain disease
August 5th, 2023
For centuries, scientists have tried to crack the mystery of a devastating ailment once called “the shaking palsy.” But Parkinson’s disease, which causes tremors, muscle stiffness and difficulty walking, remains the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the United S...
March 5th, 2024
In the College of Veterinary Medicine, it’s a clinician who sees the need for 24/7 emergency care for animals and builds a program to provide just that. And it’s researchers who dive deep into the mechanisms of well-known but little understood diseases in hopes of minimizing t...
March 5th, 2024
Dr. Canaan Whitfield-Cargile, left, was the first faculty member awarded the Dr. Steve Fisch Professorship of Equine Medicine and Surgery. He is pictured with Dr. Fisch. (Provided photo)
March 5th, 2024
Margaret “Meg” Lemons (DVM, 2024) was shocked to learn she was a winner of a $75,000 scholarship through The Foundation for the Horse, but her future colleagues were not.“Meg is just a superstar, and so deserving of this prestigious award,” says Dr. Kelsey Hart, associate prof...
Fungal infections cause 1.5M+ deaths each year, and there’s no vaccine to prevent them
August 5th, 2023
A new vaccine from the University of Georgia could be the first clinically approved immunization to protect against invasive fungal infections, a growing concern as antifungal drug resistance increases.Fungal infections cause more than 1.5 million deaths worldwide each year an...
January 5th, 2025
When counting the ways the University of Georgia’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital has advanced the practice of veterinary medicine, one must consider the career of Dr. Nicole Northrup. Northrup came to the University of Georgia’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital in 2000 to build the...