Around the college

Dr. Simon Swift, an assistant professor and chief of the UF Veterinary Hospital’s cardiology service, performs heart testing on a Boykin spaniel Oct. 3. Swift offered the health clinic testing for the Orthopaedic Foundation of America’s cardiac database certification program as part of an event held in Archer and sponsored by the Southern Boykin Spaniel Club. (Photo courtesy of Louise Jones)

Dr. Janet Yamamoto, shown here with Dean Jim Lloyd, was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame on Oct. 2. As a part of the world effort to discover a small animal model for HIV/AIDS, in 1986 Yamamoto, now a professor in the UF College of Veterinary Medicine’s department of infectious diseases and pathology, co-discovered the feline immunodeficiency virus. She also developed the first FIV vaccine and the FIV vaccine has furthered research on the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

Dean Jim Lloyd visits with former UF CVM dean, now president of the University of Tennessee, Dr. Joe DiPietro on Sept. 25. DiPietro was in town for the UF-Tennessee football game and stopped by the college to say hello. (Photo by Sarah Carey)