June-July 2020

A message from the college's interim dean, Dr. Dana Zimmel.

Dr. Tom Vickroy, the college's executive associate dean and a professor in the department of physiological sciences, retired in June after 32 years of service at UF.

In the news A story about a new treatment developed by a UF biomedical engineering faculty being used by UF veterinarians (Dr. Stan Kim and Dr. Adam Biedrzyski) to treat animals with severe bone loss appeared in Horsetalk and in the Paulick Report. A story about coronavirus and…

A human placenta-derived compound is being used with promising results by UF veterinarians to treat animals with severe bone loss.

The event drew the second largest number of attendees in its history with 382 registrants from 27 countries.

Dr. Roy Curtiss joined the college's faculty in 2015 through UF's preeminence initiative. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he owns several patented inventions and has engineered four licensed animal vaccines, which are marketed around the globe.

A UF veterinary cardiologist is now a member of the AVMA's Council on Education and a fellow in the National Academies of Practice in Veterinary Medicine.

The owners of a warmblood horse from Mississippi drove him to UF in the pandemic for treatment of a heart arrhythmia. .

In addition to teaching in the primary care and dentistry service, Mandese coordinates the Small Animal Practice-Based Clerkship. She joined the UFCVM faculty in 2012.

UF researchers hope to identify an approved drug or drug that may prove effective in preventing or treating coronavirus infection.

A UF veterinary student's prize-winning essay focused on the role of a veterinarian who helped discover West Nile virus at the Bronx Zoo in 2001.