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Close to 80 shelter and private practice veterinarians, registered veterinary
technicians (RVT) and CVM students attended an Oct. 23, 2016, interactive
discussion on the WesternU Pomona, Calif. campus aimed at improving
communication and cooperation between shelter and private vets for better
animal care.
Maria Solacito, DVM, the chief veterinarian for the County of Los Angeles
Animal Care and Control, launched an effort about a year ago to gather
veterinarians from county and city shelters and private practices together to
discuss mutual issues and build relationships, according to Zarah Hedge, DVM,
MPH, DACVPM, and assistant professor of shelter medicine at CVM.
Representatives from throughout Southern California included Long Beach, the
City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and Orange County.
“There tends to be a disconnect between shelter vets and those in private practice,” Dr. Hedge said. “Our goal was to talk to each other about
homeless pet issues, to have better collaboration, and to share information and help each other.”
Presentations included information on shelter medical standards and practices, as well as statistics on shelter animal intakes and outcomes.
Coordinating efforts to spay and neuter stray pets has gone and will continue to go a long way in controlling the population of homeless animals,
Dr. Hedge said.
Attendees also discussed ways to improve communication between private practitioners and shelter veterinarians, as well as brainstormed ideas
to ensure medical records of a pet follows it as it is relinquished at a shelter, and when it is adopted by a new family.
“That would give the pet continuous care,” Dr. Hedge said.
David Bruyette, DVM, DACVIM, and medical director of the VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital, served as the keynote speaker and
discussed how animal shelters and private veterinary practices could build mutually beneficial relationships as well as discussed the importance
of the One Health concept with regard to the issue of animal overpopulation.
The discussion started a dialogue that will continue, Dr. Hedge said. “We will be meeting to decide the next step.”
Mohammad Mir, PhD and CVM associate Malika Kachani, PhD, DVM, and CVM
professor, was recently notified that his professor of parasitology, received an
manuscript was published in the Journal of invitation from the World Health
Biological Chemistry. The manuscript Organization (WHO) to extend her
demonstrates the identification of three lead membership on the Expert Advisory Panel
inhibitors that have potential for therapeutic on Zoonosis. Her current panel membership
intervention of rodent-borne hantavirus was scheduled to expire in December 2016.
disease. The inhibitors were identified using When invited by the WHO to become a panel
a high throughput screening approach of a member, that member undertakes to
large chemical library of more than 100,000 contribute technical information on
chemical compounds. The manuscript can be developments in their field and to offer
accessed at: advice as appropriate, spontaneously or
Mohammad Mir Malika Kachani
upon request. Dr. Kachani, who is an Office
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ of International de Epizooties (OIE) expert in Veterinary Legislation
pubmed/27733686
Support Program (VLSP), has also been invited along with other VLSP
experts from various countries to attend a VLSP expert seminar in Paris in
6 College of Veterinary Medicine
Close to 80 shelter and private practice veterinarians, registered veterinary
technicians (RVT) and CVM students attended an Oct. 23, 2016, interactive
discussion on the WesternU Pomona, Calif. campus aimed at improving
communication and cooperation between shelter and private vets for better
animal care.
Maria Solacito, DVM, the chief veterinarian for the County of Los Angeles
Animal Care and Control, launched an effort about a year ago to gather
veterinarians from county and city shelters and private practices together to
discuss mutual issues and build relationships, according to Zarah Hedge, DVM,
MPH, DACVPM, and assistant professor of shelter medicine at CVM.
Representatives from throughout Southern California included Long Beach, the
City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and Orange County.
“There tends to be a disconnect between shelter vets and those in private practice,” Dr. Hedge said. “Our goal was to talk to each other about
homeless pet issues, to have better collaboration, and to share information and help each other.”
Presentations included information on shelter medical standards and practices, as well as statistics on shelter animal intakes and outcomes.
Coordinating efforts to spay and neuter stray pets has gone and will continue to go a long way in controlling the population of homeless animals,
Dr. Hedge said.
Attendees also discussed ways to improve communication between private practitioners and shelter veterinarians, as well as brainstormed ideas
to ensure medical records of a pet follows it as it is relinquished at a shelter, and when it is adopted by a new family.
“That would give the pet continuous care,” Dr. Hedge said.
David Bruyette, DVM, DACVIM, and medical director of the VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital, served as the keynote speaker and
discussed how animal shelters and private veterinary practices could build mutually beneficial relationships as well as discussed the importance
of the One Health concept with regard to the issue of animal overpopulation.
The discussion started a dialogue that will continue, Dr. Hedge said. “We will be meeting to decide the next step.”
Mohammad Mir, PhD and CVM associate Malika Kachani, PhD, DVM, and CVM
professor, was recently notified that his professor of parasitology, received an
manuscript was published in the Journal of invitation from the World Health
Biological Chemistry. The manuscript Organization (WHO) to extend her
demonstrates the identification of three lead membership on the Expert Advisory Panel
inhibitors that have potential for therapeutic on Zoonosis. Her current panel membership
intervention of rodent-borne hantavirus was scheduled to expire in December 2016.
disease. The inhibitors were identified using When invited by the WHO to become a panel
a high throughput screening approach of a member, that member undertakes to
large chemical library of more than 100,000 contribute technical information on
chemical compounds. The manuscript can be developments in their field and to offer
accessed at: advice as appropriate, spontaneously or
Mohammad Mir Malika Kachani
upon request. Dr. Kachani, who is an Office
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ of International de Epizooties (OIE) expert in Veterinary Legislation
pubmed/27733686
Support Program (VLSP), has also been invited along with other VLSP
experts from various countries to attend a VLSP expert seminar in Paris in
6 College of Veterinary Medicine
