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Friday, April 19th, 2013Earlier this week I attended an Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, led by Chairman Robert Aderholt, R-AL 4th District with primary witness Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture. I don’t consider myself particularly economically inclined. Reading about the rise and fall of the stock market leaves me with more [...]
GRD Externship by the Numbers
Thursday, April 18th, 2013Tomorrow is my last day. Naturally I started reviewing the last 4 weeks with the AVMA-GRD externship, and I always like the exercise of looking at the numbers: 20 – weekdays of service 24 – veterinarians I met who were in federal agencies, interest organizations, fellowships, universities, and/or think tanks 2 – giant pandas seen [...]
Field trips
Sunday, April 14th, 2013I wish every vet student could experience these four weeks in D.C. I am extremely grateful to be able to participate in this externship, as I have come in contact with some very cool people! Everyone seems very willing to talk to impressionable young vet students. On Thursday, Zach and I visited the FDA Center [...]
Alphabet Soup
Thursday, April 11th, 2013In one week, I visited the following organizations: USAID, USDA, EFSA, APHIS-VS, APHIS-CA, VMRCVM, AVMA, AAVMC, FSIS, DSH, CRS, and FDA-CVM to discuss the following topics: VMMA, VMLRPEA, MUMS, PAMTA, DATA, PUPS and pups (who doesn’t talk about their dogs?!). And despite the alphabet soup, each place I went, there were vets. And looking back [...]
Maybe I’m interested in lab animal medicine?
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012In one word, my experience at the NIH campus today was AWESOME. I first met with Dr. Patricia Brown, who took me out to her office at the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare. After talking with her about her position and the general responsibilities of OLAW, she introduced me to several other veterinarians in the [...]
Meetings, meetings, and more meetings
Thursday, July 19th, 2012This morning I attended a breakfast with Dr. Mark Lutschaunig, AVMA-GRD Director, for Senator Ben Cardin, of Maryland. Also in attendance at this event were representatives of many other medical professions, all who expressed their concerns about healthcare reform to Senator Cardin. I was impressed by the gravity with which Senator Cardin considered those concerns, [...]
2012 FDA/CVM Summer Intern Student Internships Available
Monday, February 27th, 2012The Windows to Regulatory Research Internship Program is providing an opportunity to spend your summer working at the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) with internationally-renowned scientists, in an environment committed to protecting human and animal health. Whether you work at CVM headquarters in Rockville, MD or at its premier research facility [...]
2012 VMLRP CYCLE BEGINS
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011Are you recent graduate who is interested in practicing in a designated shortage area? A recently passed federal budget bill included funds for USDA and appropriated $4.7 million dollars for the implementation of the Veterinary Medical Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP ) in 2012. USDA NIFA will therefore begin to implement the third year of this critical program. [...]
What a Mighty Long Acronym you Have!
Friday, July 8th, 2011The better to confuse you with my dear. DHS at 9, PDUFA at 12, RHOB at 2… wait what? DC is all about acronyms, all the time. I’ve been making my way around Washington and Virginia through a series of meetings and appointments, and almost every one of them has had a 3 to 4 [...]
One Health
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Representing the AVMA this past Monday, I participated in a Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST) Interagency Working Group on Harmful algal blooms, Hypoxia, and Human Health hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Participating organizations also included the AAVMC, USGS, NIH NIEHS, CDC, USAID, and MMC. Marguerite Pappaioanou, DVM, co-author on ”Sustaining Global [...]
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