“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.”
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.
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.
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.
Zoetis Inc. completed a recent study investigating alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M) and other prominent proteins in regenerative medicine devices that help manage equine osteoarthritis. The research was completed in partnership with Veterinary Medical Schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Colorado State University as well as a private equine practice in Missouri.
Dr. Kwane Stewart, founder of Project Street Vet, is recognized as CNN's hero of the year. AVMA News spoke with Dr. Stewart—a 1997 veterinary graduate of Colorado State University—about his experience starting out in veterinary medicine, why he founded Project Street Vet, and lessons he’s learned along the way.
“CSU has been instrumental in helping increase diagnostic testing in hopes of finding a primary cause of the outbreak,” Gillian Gwartz, a program veterinarian in the State Veterinarian’s Office, said in the news release. “We still don’t have a single conclusive causative agent, but we’re working with select vet clinics to try to get more samples to see if we can find a pattern.”
The pet insurance company Trupanion hosted a virtual Q&A on November 30 featuring a panel of veterinarians who fielded questions and offered their insights into CIRDC. The panelists included CSU professor Dr. Michael Lappin. Colorado, New Hampshire, and Oregon officials are working with state and federal veterinary diagnostic laboratories to determine the underlying cause or causes.
Colorado State University researchers are investigating whether a contagious illness that has led to a spike in the number of upper respiratory infections in canines along Colorado’s Front Range is due to a new pathogen or an organism that is already known and recognized as a cause of respiratory disease in dogs.