News
CGS Veterinary Student Summer Research Scholar Program 2015This
year two grants were awarded. The winners are Gena Esposito from
Texas A&M University and Rebecca Timmons from the Colorado
State University.
Gena Esposito is a a student (class of 2018) under the mentorship
of Dr. Jan Suchodolski, the title of their project is "Measurement
of fecal metabolites in dogs with chronic enteropathy". Rebecca
Timmons is a student (Class of 2017) under the mentorship of Dr.
Craig Webb, the title of their project is "In vitro Optimization of
Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treatment of Chronic Enteropathy in
Dogs".
Congratulations to Gena Esposito and Rebecca Timmons!
CGS/Iams-Eukanuba Professional Development Awards for travel to
Gutsea 2015
This year the CGS board has decided to give 4 awards to members
in training:
Dr. Samantha Parkinson, second year small animal internal
medicine resident at the University of Tennessee
Dr. Agostino Buono, PhD student at Texas A&M
University
Dr. Allison Kendall, Purdue University, Indiana,
and Dr. Alison Manchester, University of Wisconsin
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 AGM of the CGS was held at this year's ACVIM in Nashville,
Tennessee. We had an excellent lunch which was kindly sponsored by
Nestle Purina!
2015 Digestive Disease week travel awards
The Board of the Comparative Gastroenterology Society (CGS) is
pleased to announce the winners of the CGS/Iams-Eukanuba
Professional Development Awards - Digestive Diseases Week (DDW)
Travel Award 2015.
This year two travel grants were awarded. The winners are Dr.
Emily Gould from the University of Tennessee and Dr. Lina Maria
Martinez-Lopez from the University of Melbourne.
Dr. Gould is a Master’s candidate under the mentorship of Dr.
Katie Tolbert. Dr. Martinez-Lopez is a PhD candidate under the
mentorship of Dr. Caroline Mansfield.
Congratulations to Dr. Gould and Dr. Martinez-Lopez , and many
thanks to Iams-Eukanuba for their continued generous support of
this award!
2015 Waltham/CGS research grant award
The Board of the CGS is pleased to announce the winner of the
2015 CGS/Waltham Research Grant.
All grants were judged by CGS Board members and volunteer CGS
members.
This year’s grant is awarded to Dr. Jessica Florey for her
project “Celiac disease in dogs with chronic enteropathies-
more common than we think?”.
Dr. Florey is a 1st year internal medicine resident at the Royal
Veterinary College under mentorship of Dr. Karin Allenspach.
Congratulations to Drs. Florey and Allenspach and many thanks to
Waltham for their continued generous support of this grant!
Abstract award winners ACVIM 2014
SueYee Lim won the award with her presentation entitled
“Quantitative contrast-enhanced ultrasonographic assessment of
naturally occurring pancreatitis in dogs“. SueYee is finishing a
PhD at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan and is moving back to
Malaysia later this year to start a faculty position. In the
category of poster presentation Linda Toresson won the award with
her presentation entitled “Oral cobalamin supplementation in dogs
with chronic enteropathies and hypocobalaminemia”. Linda currently
is a PhD student with Thomas Spillmann at the University in
Helsinki and also an practitioner at a large veterinary clinic in
Helsingborg, Sweden. Both awardees will receive a check for
$800.
New CGS Board At-Large member is Dr. Keith Richter
The CGS Board of Directors is pleased to announce the results of
the CGS At-Large Board position election. Thank you to all the
members who took the time to vote. Dr. Keith Richer is our new
At-Large Board member. Please join us in welcoming Keith back to
the CGS Board! He will start his term at the end of the annual
membership meeting in Nashville. Among other responsibilities his
position will be charged with organizing our annual conference
GutSki and GutSea.
The CGS would also like to extend a resounding thank you to Dr.
Bob Sherding for his dedicated service in this position over the
last 3 years. Additionally, a big round of applause to Drs. Marnin
Forman and Katharine Arnell for their willingness to serve the
CGS.
Newest membership letter now available!
Winner of the CGS summer student scholarship 2014
The CGS Board is pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 CGS
Veterinary Student Summer Research Scholar Program.
The award goes to Mrs. Jessica Rigling, veterinary student at the
College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University.
Mrs Rigling will work with her mentor, Dr. Craig Ruaux, this
summer evaluating an ELISA assay for 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid.
The title of her project is “Validation of a urinary 5-HIAA ELISA,
and preliminary use in dogs with chronic enteropathies ”.
Please join us in congratulating Mrs. Rigling for her
accomplishment!
Newsletter
DDW 2014
This year's DDW meeting was a great success and was held in
Chicago- we had a fabolous dinner kindly sponsired by SIVOY - thank
you so much for the generous support!
The meeting this year was a memorable experience with more than
18,000 gastroenterologists in attendance and well over 5000
research abstracts presented.
Membership information
- 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!!!