Updates: Info Only

Faculty Searches:

• Food Animal Instructor position – preferred candidate took a job with USDA – search now closed and plan to fail search
• Food Animal ACVIM position – Plan to open search
• Medical Oncology – OPEN – 1 candidate
• ECC – OPEN – 2 accepted – still looking to hire a 3^rd
• Ortho – OPEN
  • Marsolais – decided not to sign another search waiver for additional year
  • Garzotto – will renew search waiver but 6 weeks this next year
• Diagnostic Imaging – OPEN
  • Dr. Epperly – increased appointment to 49% - remote/hybrid position
• Neuro – OPEN
• Surgical Oncology – OPEN

New hospital staff:

New CVTs:

• Melanie Gist and Natasha – ANE
• Kayleigh Louis – LAC
• Ash Geyer – Med Onc
• Traci Bula, Hannah Carlson, Alexa Wingerter, Karsyn Spese, Leah Litzing – ECC
• Dani Brogan – IMC

New Vet Asst:

• Brittany Pineiro – IMC

Open Positions:

• UCC VTG and VA - interviewing
• Oncology Clinical Trials – closes 6/25
• ECC – closes 6/25
• IMC VTG
• SA OR VTG

Other:

• Vaporizer Certification Week July 7^th- 11^th
• Dr. Gray - Hospital markup of VDL

• • Histopath
  • Cultures

Reportable Disease Policy & SOP:

See attached – this came after discussion with Dr. Ernst (Illinois State Vet) & Dr. Hexum (USDA Vet) A new policy/SOP will be sent out.

***NEEDS to be reported at time of suspicion not time of diagnosis

Facilities:

• Locker room in LAC is 5 weeks out; floors just went down – expected to be completed at the end of July /first of August
• LAC stall doors arrived they are too big
• Lac100 – the hallway carpet outside the conference hall will be removed next week – 6/30-7/4
• Onco construction is on schedule – February 2026 completion
• Equine CT – neuc med ct – lg animal ct room
• The University is hoping to put a roundabout at the corner of Lincoln/Hazelwood – keep traffic flow moving.

Oncology Space:

Department requests were emailed to the board. We will review at next month’s meeting and make a final decision.

• Neuro
• SA soft tissue
• Cardio
• RadOnc

Vetmed HR

• HR Rep - Jenny Allen will be taking over for Alex
• HR front office – Payton Vaugh will take over for Nancy Keener

Dress Code policy

Faculty and interns have been wearing hats on the floor

**New hire/new students – update policy – send out annually and include no hats

FY26 Budget