Ahna Brutlag, ’06 DVM, ’11 MS, was recently promoted to director of veterinary services and senior veterinary toxicologist at Pet Poison Helpline, a division of SafetyCall International. Brutlag is also an adjunct assistant professor in Pharmacology/Toxicology at the CVM. 

The Council on Biologic and Therapeutic Agents within the AVMA recently named Michael Strobel, ’82 DVM, ’03 MS, to the council as a clinical pharmacology representative. Strobel will be one of 12 voting association members elected by the House of Delegates for two three-year terms. The council serves as an informational and advisory resource to government agencies and to other AVMA groups on issues pertaining to veterinary biologics, drugs, and other therapeutic agents. 

Dennis French, ’78 DVM, joined the faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign College of Veterinary Medicine in 2009 to lead the Food Animal Medicine and Surgery section. 

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) House of Delegates has elected John Howe, ’77 DVM, of Grand Rapids, Minn., as the organization’s president-elect. Howe will begin his presidential term in July 2019. 

Richard Huston, ’63 DVM, recently traveled to Samburu, Kenya, to complete a College of Veterinary Medicine mission, where he and three veterinarians from Kenya vaccinated 9,646 sheep, goats, and camels against parasites. 

Margaret McNulty, '10 PhD, recently began a new position as assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Indiana School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Nandita Mirajkar, '16 PhD, moved to Australia and accepted a position as research scientist with the clinical toxicology research group at the University of Newcastle’s School of Medicine and Public Health.

Amanda Beaudoin, '12 PhD, is director of one health antibiotic stewardship for the Minnesota Department of Health.

Meetu Seth, '08 MS, recently defended her PhD at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is now a scientist at Intellia Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.