We are thrilled to introduce our newest classes of graduate and DVM professional students! This week, their orientations have included information sessions, team-building activities, a new student luncheon, and college tours. The students are ready to begin their journey, and we will be cheering them on the whole way. Fall semester, here they come! 🎉💪❤️🧡🌳🍂🍁🦃🐕🐈🐎🐄🐖🐓🦜🐇🐁🐢🐍🦎

Attention, dog owners! We are still seeking healthy dogs to participate in a quick, non-invasive heart disease study. Can you help? 🐶

If your dog meets the criteria, please call 540-231-4621 and mention the 2D3D echo/mitral disease study to schedule an appointment.

Please share this information with anyone who might be interested. Thank you for helping us improve health and save lives!

If you're driving (or stuck in traffic 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗) by our college, don't be surprised if you see our Class of 2023 DVM students in the midst of their orientation. Welcome (and welcome back) to the Virginia Tech campus, everyone! 🤗❤️🧡🦃🎉

We wanted to share this very special story from Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Virginia. Rabo is a true equine hero, and we wish him all the best in his well-deserved retirement! 🐴❤️🤗

Just another reason to give your favorite feline a big hug today! Happy #InternationalCatDay! ❤️😻

Five-year-old Peter Pan recently visited our teaching hospital because of a pinched nerve in his back. His owner reported that the sweet little guy was scheduled for an MRI and potentially an operation to repair the damage. Join us in sending your best wishes to Peter Pan!! 🐶💛😊

Meet our new communications intern, Hannah Altizer. She's been working at our college since last fall with the HR team and has recently joined the Communications and Marketing team. She'll be working largely on our social media accounts, so we can better interact with all of you! Hannah enjoys running, loves animals, and has played the guitar since she was 8 years old. Stop and say "hello" if you see her around the college! 🖐😁🐱🐴🐶🏃‍

P.S. The background music is Hannah's cover of "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd!!🎸🤩

Gary Lowery, VA-MD Vet Med IT operations manager, brought his sweet Goldendoodle puppy, Sami, to our veterinary teaching hospital for the first time today–and who doesn't love seeing a puppy photo on a Monday!? 😍🐕

Read all about it! 📰 Chief resident in cardiology Giulio Menciotti and clinical trials coordinator Mindy Quigley are excited to see one of our clinical trials featured on the front page of The Roanoke Times today!

Can your healthy King Charles Cavalier Spaniel 🐕 help us understand why mitral valve disease occurs in the breed and how it can be treated? Learn about the study's eligibility requirements 👇

http://www.vetmed.vt.edu/clinical-trials/current-studies/cavalier.asp

We thank Scott Pleasant, C.R. Roberts Professor of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, for sharing his expertise with these young Virginia 4-H Horse Program equestrians! 🐴🥼 🙌

VA-MD Vet Med wishes you and your pets a safe and happy Independence Day! #4thofJuly 🇺🇸🎆🎉🐶🐱🐴🐮🐷🐰🐔

Vet Med is thrilled to welcome alumnus David Wong back to the college as the head of the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, effective July 1!

Wong, who completed a three-year residency and M.S. at the college in 2003, arrived from Iowa State University, where he was professor of equine medicine.

Widely known for his research and scholarship in neonatal foal care, Wong was also a visiting specialist in both internal medicine and emergency and critical care at Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center for the past couple of years.

Learn more about Dr. Wong 👇

Congratulations to Xiaoping Zhu, associate dean and chair of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Maryland, and his team for receiving National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funding to carry out life-changing research. Flu be gone! 😷

Besides its main campus location in Blacksburg, the veterinary college includes Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Virginia, and the Gudelsky Veterinary Center in College Park, Maryland.

Our Veterinary Teaching Hospital Awards Ceremony and presentation of internship and residency certificates was held on Friday, June 14, 2019.

Congratulations and thanks are extended to the award nominees and winners and to our outgoing interns and residents! We also send warm wishes to our interns and residents for success and happiness on their journeys! 🎉

Congratulations to the student participants who completed our VetTRAC summer program, an initiative of InclusiveVT! Having just concluded its fifth year, the week-long camp offers students from underrepresented populations the opportunity to explore and consider a career in veterinary medicine through interactive presentations and hands-on learning experiences.

Annually infecting more than 20 million people worldwide, hepatitis E virus causes more than 44,000 deaths per year.

With a new, five-year National Institutes of Health RO1 grant totaling nearly $2 million, Vet Med's Dr. X.J. Meng, a University Distinguished Professor of Molecular Virology, and his research team will attempt to locate some of the virus mutation in the virus genome, as well as identify potential hormonal factors contributing to the high mortality among pregnant women.

Learn more 👇

Two of our faculty, Dr. Rist and Dr. Stewart, are part of a Global Opportunity Initiative at Egerton University in Kenya! Follow Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for the latest on the cohort's ongoing activities. 👇

Construction of our Comparative Oncology Center in Roanoke is paving the way for advanced cancer care for pets and for a research hub at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute to tackle cancer in pets and people. 🙌💪
Thank you, WDBJ7, for telling our story!

Congratulations to the student participants who completed our VetTRAC summer program, an initiative of InclusiveVT! Now in its fifth year, the week-long camp offers students from underrepresented populations the opportunity to explore and consider a career in veterinary medicine through interactive presentations and hands-on learning experiences.

What’s in store for VA-MD Vet Med’s future? A comparative oncology center in Roanoke, more externship and clinical training opportunities for students in the National Capital Region, and an expansion of our Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg! Learn more 📰⬇️

Two of the college's renowned farriers, Travis Burns and Paul Goodness, provide a comprehensive overview of healthy hoof maintenance! 🐴

We congratulate these outstanding faculty members whose promotions and tenure were approved by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors on June 3! 🎉👏

We are grateful that Denise Gorondy-Toderico (DVM '99) — a practicing equine vet at the time of "the incident" — continues to travel the road to recovery: "I'm not there yet, but I'm going to get there."

When Hokies help Hokies, the circle of service is unbroken. 🙌

Our own Tami Quesenberry, clinical veterinary technician, and her husband, Zane, created Homers Outreach to build emergency shelters for dogs enduring crisis living conditions in underserved rural communities. 🏠🐕❤️

On May 10, technicians, students, and veterinarians from the college teamed up with volunteers from the community to build 100 emergency shelters for dogs in need! 💪🙌

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