Introducing Your SAVMA Executive Board: Joe Esch, President

In honor of the American Veterinary Medical Association convention to be held in St. Louis officially beginning today and the SAVMA House of Delegates meetings that will accompany it, here is an introduction to YOUR SAVMA Executive Board, position by position.  First of all- your President, Joe Esch:

Name, Position on EB:  Joe Esch, SAVMA President

School and Year:  The Ohio State University, 2012

Your area of interest within veterinary medicine:  Small Animal General Practice

Description of what your office entails: The SAVMA President represents all SAVMA veterinary students and presides at all meetings of the SAVMA House of Delegates and Executive Board meetings.  The president also represents SAVMA in the AVMA House of Delegates and as a non-voting member of the AVMA Executive Board. 

Your favorite thing about holding that office:  I really enjoy being able to advocate for veterinary students on the national level.

Something exciting that your office is doing/has done for vet students this past year: Something really exciting for me is the changes that we are trying to make with regards to communication.  It is my hope that we can increase communication about what SAVMA and SCAVMA is and the benefits to being a SCAVMA member.

Your favorite SCAVMA related experience thus far: SAVMA Symposium is by far my favorite SAVMA related experience, and they all have been excellent!

Something fun about yourself:  I have an 11 year old smooth collie.