Meet the Executive Board: Al Claiborne

This post is part of a series made to introduce you to your elected board members, and also to share a little bit about what SAVMA is working on on a national level. The officers are a group of students that are former SAVMA Delegates and were elected by their fellow Delegates to oversee the House. Keep checking back to meet the whole board!

Name, Position on EB: Al Claiborne, Treasurer

 School and Year: University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, ℅ 2014

 Hometown: GreenEville, TN

 Your area of interest within veterinary medicine: Small animal Medicine & Surgery & Practice Management

 Description of what your office entails: I write checks and give you money!  Oh, and make a budget too.

 Your favorite thing about holding that office: I enjoy working with budgets and ensuring future financial success.  Oh, and writing big checks!

 Something exciting that your office is doing/has done for vet students this past year:  We've been evaluating online dues payments to make registration as simple as possible for students.  We're also continuing to use low-risk investments to ensure the future financial health of SAVMA.

 Your favorite SAVMA related experience thus far (EB or not): Serving as the AVMA Legislative Advisory Committee liaison.  I love politics, and I love veterinary medicine.  Mixing the two made each even better.  I also enjoy meeting people, and this allowed me to meet several wonderful people in the AVMA GRD, and on the committee itself.

 Something fun about yourself: If I have free time and the weather is nice, you'll find me out on my road bike in a hypoxic state, huffing and puffing.  I certainly won't be the next Lance Armstrong (because I don't lie to the media), but riding a bike down the road is one of the most peaceful ways to enjoy the outdoors!  

EPDC Grant Winner

SAVMA's Education and Professional Development Committee offers a grant to veterinary student organizations to provide funding for wet labs or lectures supplementing their college’s curriculum.  The vision for this grant is for student organizations or clubs to design either a lecture and/or wet lab for a topic to which students would not otherwise be exposed. For a full list of award money SAVMA offers, click here. Read below for how one school used this resource:

Dr. Karen Overall

On April 16th, with the help of a SAVMA EPDC grant, Iowa State's Chapter of Animal Behavior was pleased to welcome Dr. Karen Overall, a leading veterinary behaviorist and author of Clinical Behavioral Medicine for Small Animals.  Dr. Karen Overall spoke to our student and faculty/staff population (over 130 in attendance!) about the importance of behavior in veterinary medicine, and our role as veterinarians in patient behavior.  Dr. Overall is an engaging, well-known speaker and our college population was provided the unique opportunity to learn more about veterinary behavior.  Thank you for SAVMA EPDC grant for this amazing seminar!

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Katelyn Ellis, Univeristy of Georgia

"Let it Snow", photo"Best Friends", photo"Untitled", photo

Upcoming Topics

The topics for the newest edition of the Vet Gazette have been posted! Check them out in the toolbar above or by clicking here. The deadline for submissions is May 15th, 2013 at 11:59 PST. Good luck!

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Carolyn Sumner, Tufts

"Curious Giraffe", photo"Bath time for Raja", photo

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