University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
Type	Public
Established	1946
Dean	Dr. Lisa Nolan
Location	Athens, Georgia, USA
Website	vet.uga.edu

The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine is a college within the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, United States and is a top 10 ranked veterinary school.

History

A comprehensive history of the College, The Year of the Jubilee, was compiled and written in 2000 by J.T. Mercer and Robert Duncan. Most of the information written here is taken from that history.

The College opened in 1946. The first laboratories were housed in Hardman Hall, which had previously been used as a livestock judging pavilion and later as a Navy warehouse. The school graduated its first class of 44 students in 1950, the year it was accredited.

In 1951, the vet school's first permanent building was opened to house the school and clinics. In 1970, the Board of Regents approved a name change from the School of Veterinary Medicine to the College of Veterinary Medicine, reflecting the expansion of the College's graduate, research and service programs.

Construction on a new wing for The Institute of Comparative Medicine (ICM) began in 1971. The Athens Diagnostic Laboratory opened in two small rooms on the first floor of the College in July 1972, and later that year, the building that now houses the Community Practice Clinic also was built. The current Teaching Hospital building was completed for occupation in 1979. The state-of-the-art Animal Health Research Center was completed in 2006. $7.7 million in planning funds for a new Veterinary Medical Learning Center (which will include a new, expanded teaching hospital facility) were approved by the Georgia General Assembly in April 2010 (Athens Banner-Herald, May 2, 2010).

The College's inaugural Veterinary Conference was held in May 1964, and the College's 51st consecutive Annual Conference and Alumni Reunion was held on March 28–29, 2014.

The College began construction of the Veterinary Medicine Learning Center in March 2013.^[1]

The new campus is UGA’s third Athens campus, counting the main campus and the recently added Health Sciences Campus in Athens’ Normaltown neighborhood. The project includes a small and large animal teaching hospital, faculty offices, research labs and an academic learning center that houses classrooms and a conference area. At about 300,000 square feet, the one and two-story Veterinary Medical Learning Center is about 50 percent bigger than UGA’s Miller Learning Center, slightly more than 200,000 square feet.^[2]

In its 2019 Best Veterinary Schools rankings published in 2020, U.S. News & World Report ranked the College in the top ten of all veterinary schools.^[3]

Departments

Over 173 faculty are members of the following departments of the veterinary college:

Animal Resources
Diagnostic Laboratories
Educational Resources
Infectious Diseases
Large Animal Medicine & Surgery
Pathology
Physiology & Pharmacology
Population Health
Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center
Small Animal Medicine & Surgery
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS)
Teaching Hospital
Veterinary Biosciences and Diagnostic Imaging

Degrees offered

Graduate degrees

The following graduate degrees are offered by the veterinary college:

Master of Avian Medicine (M.A.M.) (D.V.M. is a prerequisite for this degree)
Master of Avian Health and Medicine (M.A.H.M.) (D.V.M. is a prerequisite for this degree)
Master of Food Animal Health and Management (M.F.A.M.)
Master of Science (M.S.) and a P.D. in Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, designed to emphasize interdisciplinary approaches in biomedical research.
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.)
Ph.D. in Infectious Diseases
Ph.D. in Pathology (D.V.M. is a prerequisite for this degree)
Ph.D. in Pharmacology
Ph.D. in Physiology
Ph.D. in Toxicology

The UGA College of Veterinary Medicine also offers the Veterinary Medical Scientist Training Program (VMSTP) in which students simultaneously earn D.V.M. and Ph.D. degrees, and a DVM-MPH dual-degree program in which students earn the D.V.M. and Master of Public Health degrees.

Students

2014-2015 Student Enrollment

DVM Candidates: 426
17% minority

Other degree candidates: 166

67 Ph.D. students
23 master's degree students
5 master's in avian medicine students
7 master's in avian health and medicine students
2 master’s in food animal health students
4 DVM/MPH (master's in public health) students
9 DVM/Ph.D. (Veterinary Medical Scientist Training Program) students
15 clinical interns
34 residents

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award winners

James Moore, Large Animal Medicine, 2012
Karen Cornell, Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, 2011
Wan-I Oliver Li, Physiology and Pharmacology, 2011
Paige Carmichael, Pathology, 2006
Corrie Brown, Pathology, 2004
Scott A. Brown, Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, 2003
Cynthia Trim, Large Animal Medicine, 2003
P. Thomas Purinton, Anatomy & Radiology, 2001
Linda Medleau, Small Animal Medicine & Surgery, 2000
Michelle Henry Barton, Large Animal Medicine, 1999
Jeanne A. Barsanti, Small Animal Medicine & Surgery, 1998

References

^ "Veterinary Medical Learning Center". The University of Georgia: University Architects. Retrieved 18 November 2012. "Work beginning on three big UGA construction projects." Athens Banner-Herald. February 1, 2013.
^ "UGA breaks ground for huge veterinary medicine hospital". Online Athens. Online Athens. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
^ "Best Veterinary Schools". usnews.com. U.S. News & World Report L.P. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

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[architects-1] "Veterinary Medical Learning Center". The University of Georgia: University Architects. Retrieved 18 November 2012. "Work beginning on three big UGA construction projects." Athens Banner-Herald. February 1, 2013.

[onlineathens-2] "UGA breaks ground for huge veterinary medicine hospital". Online Athens. Online Athens. Retrieved 18 November 2012.

[3] "Best Veterinary Schools". usnews.com. U.S. News & World Report L.P. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

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