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
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.