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Newest membership letter now available!
Winners of the CGS-Iams/Eukanuba professional development
awards 2013
The Board of the Comparative Gastroenterology Society (CGS) is
pleased to announce the winners of the CGS/Iams-Eukanuba
Professional Development Awards for travel to GutSki 2014, which
will be held at the Woodspur lodge (woodspur.com) in beautiful
Winter Park, CO from March 1st to March 5th 2014.
The winners in the category CGS members in their clinical training
(e.g., residency) and/or in research training are:
Dr. Julia Honneffer, PhD student at Texas A&M University
and
Dr. Joseph Cyrus Parambeth, doctoral graduate student at Texas
A&M University
The winner in the category CGS members who are currently enrolled
in an internship is:
Dr. Yoko Ambrosini, rotating Intern at the Veterinary Specialty
Hospital of San Diego (VSHSD)
Each award covers travel related expenses up to $1,500, kindly
sponsored by P&G PetCare.
Please join me in congratulating our winners on this prestigious
award.The CGS Board is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013
CGS Veterinary Student Summer Research Scholar Program. This year
the top two projects are being awarded grants.
Winner of the CGS summer student scholarship 2013
First place goes to Mr. Douglas Donovan, veterinary student,
Royal Veterinary College, London, UK. Mr. Donovan will work with
his mentor, Dr. Karin Allenspach, this summer evaluating a
non-invasive diagnostic test for IBD. The title of his project is,
"Clinical usefulness of antibodies against flagellin as a
diagnostic test in dogs with IBD".
Second place goes to Ms. Lauren Foster, veterinary student Texas
A&M University. Ms. Foster will work with her mentor, Dr. Jan
Suchodolski, this summer evaluating the fecal microbiome of cats.
The title of her project is, "Characterization of the fecal
microbiome of cats with acute and chronic diarrhea".
Please join us in congratulating Mr. Donovan and Ms. Foster for
their accomplishment!
Winner of the CGS/Waltham research grant 2013
The Board of the CGS is pleased to announce the winner of the
2013 CGS/Waltham Grant. The grants were judged by CGS Board
members and volunteer CGS members.
This year's grant is awarded to Dr. Yasushi Minamoto from the
Texas A&M University Gastrointestinal Laboratory for his
project, Evaluation of serum metabolite profiles and
fecal microbiota in dogs with idiopathic inflammatory bowel
disease. Dr. Minamoto is a PhD candidate under the
mentorship of Dr. Jan Suchodolski.
Congratulations to Dr. Minamoto and many thanks to Waltham for
their continued generous support of this grant!
Minutes of the membership/Board meeting
CGS/Iams Eukanuba Professional Development award winners
2013
The winners of the 2012 DDW Travel Grants are
Dr. Sarah Crain, third year small animal
internal medicine resident at the University of Minnesota
Dr. Romy Heilmann, first year small animal internal
medicine resident and PhD student at Texas A&M University
Dr. Kathleen Aicher, Small Animal Intern at
the University of Tennessee
Each award covers travel related expenses up to $1,500, kindly
sponsored by P&G PetCare.
Please join me in congratulating Drs. Crain and Heilmann. They
have shown a passion for gastroenterology/hepatology through their
past work and a desire to continue to contribute in these areas.
Well done!
ACVIM 2013
It gives me great pleasure to announce this year's CGS abstract
winners for the ACVIM Forum in Seattle:
Dr. Allison Bradley (PhD student of Dr. David Twedt) from Colorado
State University won for the best oral presentation by an
individual in training with her abstract entitled: "Hepatic copper
and zinc concentrations in feral dogs versus dogs fed a commercial
diet"
Dr. Candice Bailey (internal medicine resident mentored by Dr.
Craig Ruaux) from Oregon State University won for the best poster
by an individual in training with her abstract entitled: "Serotonin
and chromogranin-A expression is increased in the small intestine
in dogs with inflammatory bowel disease"
Each will receive a cash prize from our organization. On behalf of
the CGS I would like to congratulate both Drs. Bradley and Bailey.
Also, our thanks go to Nutramax Laboratories for generously
sponsoring these awards!
DDW 2014
Next year's DDW meeting will be held in Chicago- watch this
space for upcoming information on the DDW dinner!
The meeting this year was a memorable experience with more than
16,000 gastroenterologists in attendance and well over 5000
research abstracts presented. There will be another CGS dinner
during next year's DDW in Chicago, so please come and join us next
year for this event!
Membership information
- Membership file updated 2011
- Membership application form
CGS Board
CGS Board election results 2013
The outcomeof the 2013 elections for members of the Board as as
follows:
- Our president will be Joerg Steiner
- Steve Hill will be serving as past president
- our new president elect will be Craig Ruaux
- Karin Allenspach will continue as webmaster.
- Jan Suchodolski will continue as secretary &
treasurer.
- Bob Sherding will be our new at-large member 1 to the board.
His position is charged with helping with our annual
conference GUTSKI and GUTSEA, which by the way Bob is the only
member who has been to every single one of our annual
meetings.
- Peter Kook will be our new at-large member 2
A big THANK YOU to our other members who stepped forward to
serve our wonderful organization - thanks for being willing to
serve!!!