Spring 2021

The most recent edition of the Compassionate Client Virtual Event Series featured Veterinary Clinical Services Chair David Wong, DVM, and our equine and surgery faculty clinicians. Whether you want to know how our services can benefit your horses or you’d just like to learn more about reproductive and neonatal medicine, you can check out what you missed at www.isuf.info/EquineFeb24. Also, be on the lookout for information on upcoming 2021 Compassionate Client programming in areas including emergency medicine and critical care, dermatology, and the performance equine athlete. If you would like to be included in these special event invitations, please email Deb Calderwood at dcalderwood@foundation.iastate.edu.   

One of the hardest jobs Dr. Agnes Bourgois-Mochel has is finding client-owned pets to participate in a clinical trial study in the Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center. At any one time Iowa State will have up to 15 ongoing studies needing up to 20 participants each. That’s a lot of pets. 

No one loves Iowa State’s Veterinary Medicine Surgery, Anesthesia and Community Outreach program more than the pets themselves. It’s not only saving their lives; the program is helping make those lives worth living.

They can be creepy, crawly and carry diseases. Spring weather means an uptick in ticks, along with fleas and mosquitos that can deliver heartworms and more to your furry friends. Ideally pets should be on ectoparasite and heartworm prevention year-round, but if you did stop for winter, NOW is the time to start again.