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UC Scientists Tackle Deadly Disease of Dairy Calves

Dec 21
Calf in BRD study

Calf in BRD study

November 21, 2012

A UC Davis team of veterinarians and other scientists has undertaken a project dedicated to improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of bovine respiratory disease in dairy calves. The group was awarded $600,000 in September to conduct the project, “Risk assessment, welfare analysis, and Extension education for dairy calf respiratory disease management in California.”

Bovine respiratory disease, also known as pneumonia, is the leading natural cause of death in U.S. beef and dairy cattle. It causes losses of more than one million animals and $700 million every year.

Principal Investigator Sharif Aly, a School of Veterinary Medicine faculty member based in the Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center, states, “Control and prevention of pneumonia are difficult because the disease has multiple causes. Also, the many risk factors interact in complex ways, forming a web that is a challenge to untangle.” Adding to the difficulty is the fact that no standardized method exists to diagnose cases in the field in a timely way.

For more information, please click on the link below which will take you to the full article on the website of the UC Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/whatsnew/article.cfm?id=2642

Filed Under: Awards, California, Dairy, Education, Research

Maas Named 2011 Gordon K. Van Vleck Memorial Award Winner

Nov 23

Editor’s note: The following information has been distributed by the California Cattlemen’s Association.

November 22, 2011

SACRAMENTO. CALIF. – John Maas, DVM, a longtime California beef industry supporter, educator and researcher, was presented with the Gordon K. Van Vleck Award at the annual convention of the California Cattlemen’s Association and California CattleWomen, Inc., last week at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks, Nev.

As the highest honor awarded by the California Cattlemen’s Association, the Gordon K. Van Vleck award is named for one of CCA’s great past leaders. It is awarded to an individual who is not engaged in beef cattle production as a primary occupation but has made great contribution to the industry.

“I can think of no one more deserving of this award than John Maas,” said Ione Conlan, one of the many California beef producers who nominated Maas for the award. “He is a selfless individual who has given tirelessly to beef producers, who have benefited from his extensive knowledge, kind demeanor and prolific writing and research.”

For more information please follow this link to the full article:

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/whatsnew/article.cfm?id=2469

Filed Under: Awards, California, Research

Introducing Our New Director

Jun 16
Dr. Terry Lehenbauer

Dr. Terry Lehenbauer

Dairy cattle expert named to lead UC Davis Tulare center

Terry Lehenbauer, an expert in dairy cattle health, welfare and economics, has been named director of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine’s Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center in Tulare, effective June 1.

Lehenbauer, who joined the center in 2008 as associate director for food systems, takes the helm from James Cullor, who has successfully led the center for the past 15 years. Cullor is returning to his faculty research and teaching duties.

The center, located at the hub of California dairy production, opened in 1983 to serve regional dairies, provide practical training for veterinary students and develop scientific studies on cattle health and food safety. It also is home to the dairy veterinary specialist in Veterinary Medicine Extension, the Tulare branch of the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System, and a district office of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

As director, Lehenbauer oversees academic and clinical training programs for veterinary and pre-veterinary students. He also manages the three-year Dairy Production Medicine residency for veterinarians, works closely with the community to develop research and training programs, and supervises clinical services for more than 100,000 animals at local commercial dairies and calf ranches.

Lehenbauer earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Oklahoma State University in 1979. He completed a food-animal residency, as well as Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Ph.D. degrees at UC Davis, and then spent more than seven years in private practice as a California dairy veterinarian.

He is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine in epidemiology, and has extensive clinical experience in dairy and beef cattle herd health, as well as preventive veterinary medicine.

Lehenbauer’s research interests include animal health economics, assessment of dairy cattle health and welfare, epidemiology of cattle production systems and evaluation of diagnostic tests. He represents the American Association of Bovine Practitioners on the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Animal Agriculture Liaison Committee, which develops position statements on food animal health and welfare issues.

Lehenbauer will build upon a number of successful programs established or expanded by Cullor, including the Milk Quality Laboratory, which has contributed to healthier cows and higher quality milk.

As center director, Cullor established a second branch of the Dairy Food Safety Laboratory, which has provided rapid response research, training and technology transfer focused on higher quality milk and safer dairy products. He led efforts to develop vocational programs in partnership with Tulare High School and the College of the Sequoias, a high school laboratory internship, and regularly scheduled tours and conferences. He also expanded the clinical training program to welcome foreign veterinary students. A consumer education pavilion was built in 2005 to support these and other educational programs for students at the elementary through postgraduate school levels.

*UC Davis News Service distributed this announcement June 6, 2011.

UC Davis News site has details

http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9915

See also news and photo at the U. C. Davis School of Veterinary Medicine website news location:

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/whatsnew/article.cfm?id=2407

Filed Under: Awards, Dairy, Education, Research

EL Blanco Award Honors Helpful Clients

Mar 31

L to R: Cornell Kasbergen and Teri Kasbergen, Rancho Teresita, receive congratulations from Bennie Osburn, dean of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and Terry Lehenbauer, associate director of the Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center, Tulare. Photo credit: Don Preisler, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Long-time clients of the Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center (VMTRC), Cornell and Teri Kasbergen of Rancho Teresita dairy, have received the 2010 El Blanco Award from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine for ongoing contributions to the school’s teaching mission and for their role in promoting important advances in animal health and well-being.

The Kasbergens were nominated for the award by Terry Lehenbauer, DVM, associate director of the Tulare center, who notes, “Rancho Teresita is valued as one of the most significant dairy herd clients and research collaborators of the VMTRC.” The Kasbergens are one of about ten dairy producers in the region who receive clinical services from Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center faculty and provide teaching opportunities to School of Veterinary Medicine students and others.

Twice-weekly scheduled herd examinations have provided outstanding opportunities for fourth-year veterinary students to learn clinical skills and gain the knowledge in reproductive and transition cow health management that veterinary graduates must demonstrate. Veterinary residents based in Tulare also benefit from proximity to Rancho Teresita, where they receive advanced training, research opportunities and specialized experience in dairy production medicine.

Among the most progressive large-scale dairies in the United States since 1989, the Rancho Teresita dairy has also participated with the center’s faculty in a multitude of research projects and clinical investigations, including the following examples:

* Role of colostrum in calf health and colostrum replacer research
* Efficacy of feed additives
* Evaluation of new pregnancy diagnostic techniques and timed reproductive protocols
* Transition cow health
* Conductive cooling technology for dairy cow heat stress
* Dry cow mastitis prevention therapy

The Kasbergens received the award March 30 from Bennie Osburn, dean of the school, at a luncheon event in Davis.

The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, celebrating World Veterinary Year, the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the first veterinary school in Lyon, France, serves California with teaching, research and service programs benefiting animal health, public health and environmental health. www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu.

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