OSU Veterinary Center announces 2010 distinguished alumni

Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Oklahoma State University Center for Veterinary Health Sciences proudly announces the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients:  Drs. Joseph H. Carter, Jr. (’84) of Norman, Okla., Michael R. Lappin (’81) of Fort Collins, Colo., and Eva M. Sartin (’79) of Auburn, Ala.  Awardees will be honored during the veterinary center’s Fall Veterinary Conference at a luncheon on Friday, Oct. 1, held at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center in Stillwater.  Tickets are available through the Continuing Education Office at (405) 744-7672.

Carter owns and operates the Oklahoma Equine Hospital in Washington, Okla., and is co-owner in the McGee Street Animal Hospital in Norman, Okla.  He also serves as the consulting veterinarian and surgeon at the Wildcare Foundation in Noble, Okla., receiving its Distinguished Service Recognition Award in 2000 to 2002.  Carter is the 1995 Oklahoma Equine Practitioner of the Year and a past president of the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association and the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Foundation.

Lappin is Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. The recipient of the Beecham Research Award and the Norden Distinguished Teaching Award, he is also the Kenneth W. Smith Professor in Small Animal Clinical Veterinary Medicine at CSU and the current Assistant Department Head for Research.  He is known internationally for feline related research and received the European Society of Feline Medicine International Award 2008 for Outstanding Contribution to Feline Medicine and the 2009 Winn Feline Research Award.

Sartin is Professor of Pathobiology at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine and a Diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Pathobiologists.  She directs the histopathology laboratory and participates in the diagnostic pathology service.  She also trains residents and teaches in the veterinary curriculum.  Sartin was Editor-in-Chief for  Veterinary Pathology from 2004 to 2007 and served as an Associate Editor and as a member of the Editorial Board in years prior to that.  Her research involves collaborative clinicopathologic studies ranging from wound healing and reproductive pathology studies to mammary cancer in dogs and case studies of various conditions.

“We pride ourselves in graduating competent, confident, practice-ready veterinarians,” says Dr. Michael Lorenz, dean of the OSU Center for Veterinary Health Sciences.  “Our distinguished alumni recipients continue to bring accolades to our veterinary program through their work and contributions to veterinary medicine.  Congratulations, to all three very deserving veterinarians.”