College well-represented at national surgery meeting

The UF College of Veterinary Medicine is always well-represented during the Veterinary Orthopedic Society’s annual meeting, held Feb. 10-17 in Lake Tahoe. Many of our faculty play key leadership roles in VOS, in addition to the mentoring they provide to our enthusiastic trainees.

Podium presentations were given by:

  • Three small animal surgery residents, Dr. John Hanlon, Dr. Logan Scheuermann and Dr. Natalie Worden
  • One Ph.D. student, Parisa Mazdarani, and one master’s student, Trevor Perez
  • Three D.V.M. students, Sam Higgins, Ellie Peterson, and Karly Souders
  • Small animal rotating intern, Dr. Kerry Simon

Posters were presented by:

  • Two small animal surgery residents, John Hanlon and Logan Scheuermann (who had two posters)
  • Orthopedic research associate, MuYoung Kim (who had two posters)
  • Associate professor in large animal surgery, Dr. Adam Biedrzycki
UF CVM faculty, residents and others represented at the annual Veterinary Orthopedic Society meeting in Lake Tahoe.

Faculty, residents and students from the UF College of Veterinary Medicine’s surgery group during the annual Veterinary Orthopedic Society meeting in Lake Tahoe.

Our team also almost had a clean sweep of the awards: Dr. John Hanlon received the Bloomberg Resident Research Award and won the best Bloomberg Resident Award Presentation (considered as the most coveted presentation award of the meeting); Ellie Peterson and Karly Souders received Gretchen Flo Student/Intern Awards; Dr. Natalie Worden won the best small animal scientific research presentation; MuYoung Kim won the best scientific research poster presentation and Dr. Adam Biedrzycki won best clinical poster presentation.

Dr. Stanley Kim completed his two-year term as VOS scientific program chair, and Biedrzycki completed his three-year term as VOS research chair. A former UF small animal surgery resident and UF CVM alumna, Dr. Kristin Kirkby, was elected president-elect of the VOS.

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