Veterinary Medicine at Illinois

The University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine hosted its annual Research Day celebration on April 22. Drs. Annette McCoy, associate professor of equine surgery, and Julie Nguyen-Edquilang, coordinator of research programs, organized the event. (See photos f...

Daily Illini (May 10) – Rachel Dorney, CVT, small animal soft tissue and surgical oncology clinical coordinator in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, and veterinary student Becca Chenoweth launched Illini Kitten Club, a student‑run organization dedicated to neonatal care, fostering, and hands-on veterinary training. Members of the club regularly attend lunch lectures wher...

FarmWeek (April 13) – Horses may wish to indulge all day in the sweet taste of spring pasture, but Dr. Rebecca Bishop, an equine surgeon at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital, advises progressively reintroduce them to pasture after hay being such a big part of their diet all winter. Dr. Bishop suggested starting horses on spring pasture for 10-30 minutes ...

WCIA-TV (May 6) – Booker T. Washington STEM Academy’s fourth- and fifth-graders are graduating from the first-ever Future Health Innovators Academy Mini Medical School Program, wearing their new white coats. (Featured in the video of the white coat ceremony are Dr. Yvette Johnson-Walker as well as current veterinary students and recent alumni who participated in deliveri...

Our Quad Cities (April 30) – “Oneida the ornate box turtle is doing well as we enter the month of May. As of last week, she has successfully taken her first bath since surgery,” according to an update from Nahant Marsh Education Center in Davenport, Iowa. In March doctors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Veterinary Medicine removed a bound egg and als...