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Tracks Magazine

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    Copies of the 2023 'Tracks' calendar laying out on a table.
    Veterinary college 2023 'Tracks' calendars ready for delivery, available for a donation , article

    A different kind of “Tracks” will be showing up in veterinary college supporters’ mailboxes this holiday season. Instead of offering a winter edition of its biannual “Tracks” magazine, the Office of Advancement at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has developed a 2023 calendar containing photographs and short vignettes illustrating college programs, animal care, and donor support.

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    Furlock Holmes: Illustration by Steven White
    A study in maroon and orange , article

    On the very eve of the introduction of a new program at the veterinary college, a valuable shipment of stethoscopes had vanished, as if into thin air. Can Furlock Holmes, the legendary feline detective, unravel this formidable mystery?

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    VA-MD Vet Med alumni (clockwise from top left) Jody Kull ’04; Jennifer McQuiston ’93, ’97, ’98; Lindsey McCrickard Shields ’11; Betsy Schroeder ’16, ’20; and Jim Trybus ’04.
    Uniquely prepared for a pandemic , article

    From public health veterinarians and pathologists to veterinary epidemiologists and disease surveillance experts, VA-MD Vet Med's One Health-trained alumni have their boots on the ground in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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    Peter Haberkorn and his cat, Kokomo, stand before the Animal Cancer Care and Research Center in Roanoke, Virginia
    No bands, no confetti, but still grand for the region's pets , article

    In September, the opening of the Animal Cancer Care and Research Center on the Virginia Tech Carilion Health Sciences Campus in Roanoke, Virginia, finalized the relocation of VA-MD Vet Med's oncology service from the Veterinary Teaching Hospital on the Blacksburg campus.

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    A veterinary student in a white coat leans down to pet a brown and white dog.
    Fostering love and learning , article

    VA-MD Vet Med's new Canine Awareness and Responsibility Experience for Students program — known as CARES — fosters carefully selected dogs from local shelters to teach students about routine care and socialization.

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    A DVM student tends to one of several sheep while Lynn Cosell watches.
    Friends of fleece flock together , article

    Bernie and Lynn Cosell's Fantasy Farm in Pearisburg, Virginia — home to a flock of some 100 merino sheep — has long been a destination for hands-on learning for the veterinary college's DVM students.

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    Vegetables and devices to help control diabetes
    Fighting the good fight , article

    With a particular focus on underserved populations, educational programs led by Kathy Hosig — an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences who also serves as the director of the Virginia Tech Center of Public Health Practice and Research — have made headway in the prevention of childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

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    Scrappy McDaniel illustration
    Scrappy McDaniel fights off cancer , article

    Oncology clinicians at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine are dedicated to advancing cancer treatments in animals and humans alike.

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    Canine patient, Balian, at the Animal Cancer Care and Research Center in Roanoke, Virginia
    Transdisciplinary collaborations essential to tackling cancer , article

    A Virginia Tech research team led by veterinary oncologic surgeon Joanne Tuohy and biomedical engineer Eli Vlaisavljevich is working to refine a unique approach to treating canine osteosarcoma.

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    Justin Ganjei (DVM ’11) and (right) David Grant (chemistry ’94, M.S. ’03), associate professor of internal medicine in Small Animal Clinical Sciences
    Saving Yoda , article

    Justin Ganjei (DVM ’11), a staff surgeon at Veterinary Surgical Centers in northern Virginia, returned to Blacksburg to work with Veterinary Teaching Hospital internist David Grant and surgeon Sabrina “Bini” Barry to collaborate on a fluoroscopy-guided surgical treatment to save an internal medicine resident's cat, Yoda.

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    Sophie Boorman doing an ultrasound on a horse.
    Sustaining emergency and critical care services while an equine veterinary crisis rages on , article

    It has been widely known in the equine community in recent years that students in veterinary colleges throughout the country are choosing to steer away from equine veterinary medicine. In 2021, the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) highlighted this plight by sharing that only a small percentage of veterinary graduates were entering the equine profession. Even more disturbing is the news that 50 percent of these graduates will leave the equine profession within five years. This phenomenon has caused some serious “outside-the-box” thinking, not only by the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine but also by other veterinary colleges and private equine practices throughout the country that wish to sustain emergency and elective services that they currently offer to their clients.

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    Professor Meowriority: Illustration by Steven White
    The Adventure of the Speckled Bandana

    The legendary feline detective Furlock Holmes, unravels a veterinary mystery

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    Saint, a retired service dog, participates in physical rehabilitation at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
    Physical rehabilitation enhances pets' quality of life , article

    When Saint, a retired service dog from Saint Francis Service Dogs of Roanoke, Virginia, began experiencing mobility issues and hind limb weakness, his new owner, Krista Sinnott, was referred to VA-MD Vet Med for physical rehabilitation to improve the 11-year-old’s quality of life.

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    Veterinary Teaching Hospital at VA-MD Vet Med: Illustration by Megan Quesenberry
    Wellness initiatives at VA-MD Vet Med care for students, clients, and practitioners , article

    Work is ongoing at the veterinary college and across Virginia Tech to create a supportive culture that reduces stigma and encourages people to access the resources they need.

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    Amiya Veatch and her horses, Picasso and Peanut
    What a difference a yearling makes , article

    After adopting a pregnant mare rescued from squalor, Amiya Veatch turned to Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center and its Foaling Out Program for specialized care.