Pamela E. Ginn, D.V.M., a veterinary pathologist, has been named associate dean for students and instruction at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine following a national search. Ginn has served as a member of the college’s faculty since 1992. She will begin her new duties immediately and will assume full responsibilities in March, [...]

“Red on yellow, kill a fellow; red on black won’t hurt Jack” might be a familiar folk rhyme in Florida and elsewhere in the deep South to distinguish the deadly Eastern coral snake from the harmless scarlet king snake. But Larry Ferguson, who recently moved to Gainesville from Arkansas, had never heard of a coral [...]

An American Drum Horse stallion named Mariah’s Boon was a model patient at the University of Florida’s Large Animal Hospital between 2008 and 2009, when he received two surgeries and numerous checkups for an abdominal abscess caused by a small wire that had penetrated his stomach. Now, quite literally, and at only 6 years of [...]

Terri Rines trained with her horse, First Cadet, five days a week in Melbourne, Fla. And five days a week, First Cadet jumped over cavallettis, which are training poles, without a problem. But one day in January, First Cadet stumbled over a cavalletti and injured her right leg. Progressively, her leg got worse. First Cadet [...]

University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine faculty members Michael Schaer, D.V.M., a professor of small animal medicine, and Dennis Brooks, D.V.M., Ph.D., a professor of ophthalmology, both recently received the Dr. Erwin Small Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine and its alumni association. The award, presented during the [...]

Dan Lewis, D.V.M., a professor of small animal surgery at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named the 2012 recipient of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s Hill’s Mobility Award. The WSAVA’s Hills Mobility award recognizes the outstanding work of a clinical researcher in the field of canine and feline orthopedic [...]

To Richard Gonzmart, president and a fourth-generation member of the family that runs Tampa Bay’s century-old Columbia Restaurant, Rusty the dog is more than a pet. He’s part of the family. When Rusty, a 5-year-old German shepherd, was diagnosed with bone cancer, it felt like one of his children was sick, Gonzmart said. He sat [...]

A new “gene chip” developed at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine sheds light on brain response in horses infected with West Nile virus and could lead to better ways to diagnose and treat both equines and humans, researchers said. Using gene sequencing technology, the researchers developed a “brain and immunity chip” to [...]

Elliott Jacobson, D.V.M., Ph.D., a professor of zoological medicine at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the 2011 Emil Dolensek Award from the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians. The AAZV named Jacobson as the recipient of the award, which consists of $1,000 and a plaque, during the group’s annual meeting, held [...]

Although the journey has been long and painful for a rescued 2-year-old quarter horse named “Baby Girl,” the gentle buckskin filly is now on the road to recovery because of surgery in October at UF’s Large Animal Hospital, a committed owner, and an ongoing regimen of advanced medical therapy. “She is very bright and remains [...]