Change of pace for equine center director

Dr Nathaniel “Nat” White

Renowned equine colic expert Dr Nathaniel White has stepped downwardly from his purpose equally manager of Virginia Tech’s Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center after ix years.

During his term alongside the center, Dr White of Leesburg, Virginia, wrote definitive textbooks on colic too surgery, recruitedof primal faculty too staff to expand the center’s clinical too interrogation excellence, was involved alongside the formation of the Veterinary Advisory Board, too the evolution of 3 strategic plans. He too played a pivotal purpose inwards the successful containment of an equine herpes outbreak at the centre inwards 2007.

White will help alongside the transition inwards leadership too top on to contribute to the mission of the centre equally a professor of surgery.

Dr David Hodgson, professor too caput of the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named interim executive manager of the Equine Medicine Center.

Dr Harold McKenzie, associate professor of medicine at the center, has been named the interim associate manager too volition run the center’s day-to-day operations nether Hodgson’s supervision.

“Drs Hodgson, McKenzie, too White volition live equally a squad to ensure a seamless too gradual transition to the interim leadership too to brand certain that service to the equine community remains at the highest possible level,” said Dr Gerhardt Schurig, dean of the veterinary college.

The equine medical centre is a full-service equine infirmary located inwards Leesburg, Virginia, that offers advanced specialty care, 24-hour emergency treatment, too diagnostic services for all ages too breeds of horses.

Schurig has tasked a squad alongside developing several potential strategic plans that volition sustain the centre too get upwards its programs too services. The squad includes representatives from the Equine Medical Center Council.

“Once nosotros bring decided on a specific novel strategic plan, nosotros volition laid about the search for a novel director,” Schurig said. “Dr White volition chair the pick committee.”

After receiving a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine marking at Cornell University inwards 1971, White completed an internship too residency inwards surgery at the University of California-Davis from 1971 to 1973, too earned a master’s marking inwards pathology at Kansas State University inwards 1976. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) too yesteryear president of both the ACVS too the American Association of Equine Practitioners. During his tenure at the Equine Medical Center, he was the Theodora Ayer Randolph professor inwards surgery from 1987 to 2004 too the Jean Ellen Shehan Chair equally the Equine Medical Center manager from 2004 to 2012.

White has performed a broad diversity of soft tissue too orthopedic surgeries during his 41 years equally a veterinarian. He is a world-renowned skilful on colic too conducts interrogation on the pathophysiology of ischemia-reperfusion, epidemiology of colic, abdominal too orthopedic surgery, too handling of orthopedic diseases.

 

 

 

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