“There’s a raw honesty you can have with your dog that you can’t always have with other people,” says Lori Kogan, a counseling psychologist and a professor in the clinical sciences department at Colorado State University. “We accept them so completely as they are—and they do the same for us and they’re consistent about it.”
The program has 105 courses scheduled for 2024, with public courses representing nearly half. These courses are primarily designed for general practitioners, but CSUVetCE also has several options designed specifically for residents and diplomates.
At the 2024 Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX), Michael Lappin, director of the Center for Companion Animal Studies at Colorado State University, and chair of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association One Health Committee, lectured on CPV, among other infectious diseases, to an audience of veterinarians and other industry professionals.
A new study finds that stimulating a particular circuit of the brain calms stress reactivity in males but not in females.
CSU track athlete Quinn McConnell finds inspiration all around her, no matter where she’s at in her day. At vet school, she is surrounded by a very driven group of students, all of whom want to become top-flight doctors. The work ethic she sees there isn’t anything new, as the runners she’s around have the same focus, just guided down a different path, sometimes up and down hills.
Phoenix Espinoza is a junior studying biomedical sciences at CSU: "Not only am I attending CSU, but I’m an undergraduate researcher working with professors to examine the connections between nutrition and function of the cardiovascular system. I’m forever grateful for the chance to build a better life for myself and my family through the transformative power of education."
The lab primarily handles surgical biopsies which, most often, have a veterinary care team and anxious owner waiting for results. The team also works with necropsy specimens to provide closure to owners or information on herd health. With that in mind, service excellence is critical, providing quick and accurate findings.
“There’s a veterinary shortage and this is not just in Colorado. It’s at least nationwide, if not worldwide,” said Rachel Heatley, director of advocacy at Dumb Friends League, part of the Vet Care Coalition. “But in Colorado, it’s particularly odd, because we have one of the top veterinary schools in the world here, and we still don’t have enough veterinarians.”
Morris Animal Foundation announced the 24 students who were accepted into the Foundation's Veterinary Student Scholar program, offering students the opportunity to be involved in mentor-guided research. Zack English from Colorado State University Teaching Hospital will review the spatial relationships between the mitral valve and aorta in canine degenerative mitral valve disease.
“Whether from saddle fit issues or underlying back pathology (disease or damage), horses with back pain will often ‘turn off’ their stabilizing muscles, causing them to atrophy. Many horses with back pain will appear to have lost muscle mass over their topline rather quickly,” according to Erin Contino, MS, DVM, Dipl. ACVSMR, associate professor of equine sports medicine and rehabilitation at Colorado State University.