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  • Roger Madison, ’66 DVM, received the Veterinarian of the Year award during the 2023 Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association Conference.

  • Lindsay Merkel, ’93 DVM, received the Veterinary Faculty Member of the Year award during the 2023 Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association Conference.

  • April Estrada, '21 PhD, started a bioinformatics analyst position under Heluna Health in the Microbial Diseases Laboratory Branch of the California Department of Public Health in fall 2021.

  • Julia MacGregor, ’21 DVM, started a new job in October 2022 as a veterinarian at the Hattiesburg Zoo located in Hattiesburg, Miss.

    Issue: Fall 2022
  • Lara Stephens-Brown, ’18 DVM, recently started her own mobile large animal practice, Northern Lights Veterinary Service, in her hometown of Skandia, Mich.

    Issue: Fall 2022
  • Alexandra Armstrong, ’15 DVM, ’22 PhD, started in December 2022 as an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine.

    Issue: Fall 2022
  • Michele Vedbraaten-Larson, ’12 DVM, purchased the Walker Animal Hospital in Walker, Minn., in August 2022.

    Issue: Fall 2022
  • Swity Bhavsar, ’15 DVM, joined Animal Adoption and Rescue Foundation as its first staff veterinarian.

    Issue: Fall 2022
  • Peter Bowie, ’18 DVM, started his own company, Peter Bowie Consulting, in June 2022.

    Issue: Fall 2022