Cornell team develops horse anatomy app for studentsMay 9, 2019An app created by a team from Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is helping students learn and understand the anatomy of a horse. According to the Cornell Chronicle, the Equine X-Ray Positioning Simulator is an augmented reality app that overlays a digital image of a horse limb onto surroundings seen through an iPad. The app was first used in the spring during CVM's eight-week Anatomy of the Horse course. Allison Miller, DVM, lecturer in the department of biomedical sciences and the department of clinical sciences, helped create the app to allow students to study parts of the equine musculoskeletal system. "We try really hard not to teach anatomy as memorization," Dr. Miller told the news source. According to the same article, Miller had students complete exercises such as dragging and dropping bone labels onto parts of a horse's body. "Students can hear a lecture on how to take certain oblique radiographic views, but actually positioning yourself to take them might prove more challenging," Miller told the Cornell Chronicle. "While nothing can fully prepare you for an emergency where you have primary case responsibility and emotions are running high, I think we are doing our absolute best to prepare …
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Cornell to offer new veterinary business programApril 5, 2019Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has launched a new interdisciplinary program called the Center for Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship (CVBE) to grow research, training, and outreach in veterinary business. "I'm thrilled to announce the launch of the Center for Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship in collaboration with the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business," says Lorin D. Warnick, DVM, PhD, the Austin O. Hooey dean of veterinary medicine. "The center is the culmination of extensive needs-based assessments and planning, and will answer the urgent need in the veterinary profession to provide essential training for students, faculty, and alumni to launch, manage, and succeed in a business or organization of any kind." The CVBE will focus on four pillars: education, economics research, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship. The center will offer a new DVM certificate program, a postgraduate executive education, and an assortment of educational programs. Through a faculty hire and collaborations with Cornell's Charles H. Dyson school of applied economics and management, the center will launch a veterinary economics research program. "It's exciting to embark on an initiative of this scope," says associate dean for education, Jodi Korich, DVM. "We are confident this new center will position our graduates for success in …
Cornell CVM adopts ezyVet practice management softwareMay 22, 2018Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has partnered with ezyVet to use the company's cloud-hosted veterinary practice management software (PMS). ezyVet's products will be used by more than 1,000 individuals, spanning faculty, veterinary staff, students, and post-terminal degree trainees, interns, residents, and post-docs across the seven hospitals comprising the Cornell University Hospital for Animals. ezyVet products include XERO cloud-based accounting, Smart Flow electronic treatment whiteboard, Cubex dispensary, rVetLink specialty referral portal, and Vet Rocket and Asteris digital imaging. The first ezyVet site is due to go live in June 2018. ezyVet and Cornell will use AI and machine learning to create and automate workflows and processes where faculty staff has full visibility of student work, said company founder and CEO Hadleigh Bognuda. This means that ezyVet becomes an important part of the teaching process, with teaching faculty being able to verify and grade real-world student work within the teaching hospital, he added. "Our passion has always been around developing our software in ways that assist vets to think and act clinically—to deliver a world class standard of care without losing money across any area of a veterinarian practice," he said. "Our partnership with Cornell will be …
Cornell vets perform tricky cardiac procedure on shepherd puppyApril 11, 2018Cornell University Hospital for Animals (CUHA) and veterinarians from three countries joined forces to save a young German shepherd's life. At 6 months old, Rex was by far the calmest dog the Silverman family of New York had ever owned. Their other German shepherds all bounced off the walls at that age, so at first they attributed Rex's docile behavior to temperament. Nothing in his regular checkups indicated a problem, but when Rex became violently ill, the Silvermans noticed the dog's heart was racing and knew it was something far more serious. Gretchen Singletary, DVM, DACVIM, a veterinary cardiologist in New York, stabilized him and performed a series of tests, including an electrocardiogram that confirmed the presence of an arrhythmia. The culprit turned out to be a small bundle of muscle running inside the wall of his heart, a defect he was born with and likely caused his low energy. Dr. Singletary told Silverman that Rex was a candidate for radiofrequency catheter ablation, where small areas of the heart muscle are heated through the tip of a catheter to destroy abnormal tissue. It's a complicated, precise procedure, and only two places in the U.S. offer it routinely—a …
Cornell veterinary fraternity returns with Men of the Vet School CalendarDecember 14, 2017Veterinary fraternity Omega Tau Sigma at Cornell University has once again released its Men of the Vet School Calendar. This year's edition is filled with a variety of animals, including puppies, horses, donkeys, calves, llamas, goats, snakes, and even a kangaroo posing with future veterinarians studying in Ithaca, N.Y. The calendar supports the fraternity as well as its fundraising efforts for multiple charities, including the Patient Assistance Fund at Cornell University Hospital for Animals. This fund benefits sick pets by providing financial resources to owners who cannot otherwise afford the medical care their pet needs. Last year the fraternity donated $5,000 to the fund, breaking its own record for largest contribution from a student organization. The calendar is available on Etsy. International shipping available. For more information, visit the fraternity's Facebook page, Cornell Men of the Vet School Calendar, and Instagram @menofthevetschool.
Cornell offers alternative procedure for treating equine atrial fibrillationNovember 28, 2017Cardiologists at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine are touting a new procedure to treat atrial fibrillation (AF): transvenous electrical cardioversion (TVEC). "I'm very excited to be able to offer this procedure," said Bruce Kornreich, DVM, Ph.D., DACVIM, associate director of the Feline Health Center and staff cardiologist. "AF is a very common condition in horses that we're often asked to diagnose and treat. This is another tool in our toolbox to convert these patients back to a normal heart rhythm." Cornell's Equine Hospital offered TVEC until about five years ago, when the hospital could no longer purchase catheters needed for the procedure, which involves electrodes in the heart to reset its rhythm via an electric shock. Recently, the catheters came back onto the market. At around the same time, Cornell veterinary students examined On-Star, a 19-year-old mare from the Cornell Equine Park teaching herd. "The students picked up the arrhythmia, and we diagnosed it as AF," said Gillian Perkins, DVM, DACVIM, medical director of the Equine/Nemo Farm Animal Hospitals, who coordinated the procedure. For horses that don't respond well to the traditional quinidine treatment or that have had AF for several years, TVEC might be …
Cornell, Tufts scientists receive $2.5M from NIH for cancer studyNovember 14, 2017Cornell and Tufts University scientists have received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to use dogs as a model for studying cancer immunotherapies. The dogs used in the study are treated with similar care as human patients, with the potential of being cured of lymphoma. Kristy Richards, Ph.D., MD, associate professor of Biomedical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine with a joint appointment at the Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine is co-principal investigator on the grant, along with Cheryl London, DVM, Ph.D., DACVIM, a research professor at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. The grant will investigate whether combinations of PD1 inhibitors and other targeted therapies may increase effectiveness of cancer treatment in dogs, thereby setting up the possibility for human trials. Clinical trials in dogs should begin in the next six months, at which time, the researchers will reach out to referring veterinarians for candidate canine patients with lymphoma. Veterinary oncologists at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and at Cornell University Veterinary Specialists in Stamford, Conn., will enroll and treat patients during the trials. Patients also will be enrolled at the …
Clinical Trial: Cornell enrolls cats with sepsisOctober 29, 2016Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine is currently enrolling cats with naturally occurring sepsis, a life-threatening syndrome characterized by the body’s response to a serious infection.
Cornell to offer new test for Shar-Pei breedAugust 9, 2016Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine recently reported that its Animal Health Diagnostic Center will be the first in the nation to provide a new diagnostic test for Shar-Pei Autoinflammatory Disease (SPAID).
Cornell develops cornea model of infectionJuly 27, 2016Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine researchers say they have developed a model system that can be used to test drugs for treating feline herpes virus 1 (FHV-1).
