“Hindsight’s always twenty-twenty, but they should not have been racing those days," equine surgeon Dr. Wayne McIlwraith told the Daily News, referring to Southern California’s record rainfall in May and a storm May 16.
The Veterinary Innovation Summit showed that pet health care is moving from reactive and acute to proactive and preventive, writes Aaron Massecar of the TMI.
"We deal with the same problems, just different species. If we can solve the problem in one species, it can be applied to the other." Dr. Dave Frisbie
Dr. Jeremiah Easley’s career path has come full circle. As a young boy, he lived with his family in Fort Collins while his father completed a sabbatical at Colorado State University.
New Zealand-born equine orthopaedic surgeon and researcher Dr. Wayne McIlwraith received the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ Research Award for his life-long contributions to equine research, specifically relating to orthopaedics, joint disease and biologic therapies.
“I can think of no one better suited to lead the next steps for the Translational Medicine Institute,” said Dr. Mark Stetter, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Nearly 200 people attended Zoobiquity Colorado, a national meeting on regenerative medicine advances.
Dr. David Frisbie and CSU equine surgeons have been influenced by stem cell research conducted by Frank Barry, a world-renowned researcher and a professor at the National University of Ireland Galway.
Dr. David Frisbie has been named director of the C. Wayne McIlwraith Translational Medicine Institute.