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Purdue University Veterinary Medical VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2 JANUARY 1987 Progress Report from the Dean Strategic Operating Plan /s On Track I am pleased to report that the SVM planning process is progressing quite well and is essentially on track. We hope to be finished by the end of the first quarter in 1987. The highlights of our strategic operating plan will be discussed in the next issue of UPDATE. For a strategic operating plan to be successful, it must be based on solid foundations. In an organization like PUSVM, it is important to have a clear understanding of the University and School charters, to have a well-defined and worthwhile set of goals, and an operating philosophy which is in congruence with the School's character and is broadly understood by its faculty and staff. Position documents in these areas have been prepared and widely disseminated. Here are a few of the important features. CHARTER. In addition to the obvious and essential elements of our broad mission, i.e., teaching, research and public service, we also now recognize a responsibility for providing continuing education and training programs designed to upgrade the knowledge base and technical competence of veterinary scientists and technicians. We plan to develop innovative programs in continuing education that will prepare our students for a lifetime of effective learning, and our graduates with the skills, experience and confidence to remain current and competitive. Our new Practitioner Sabbatical Program is a tangible manifestation of our commitment to innovative approaches to continuing education. GOAL. The overall goal of PUSVM is to be the leading veterinary educational institution in the United States by the turn of the century. On the surface, this would appear to be a very tall order, for we lack the human and physical resources of many of the other schools. However, we believe that leadership is more a reflection of rttitude, spirit, and quality of thinking than of size and resources. Our faculty aspire to be viewed by their peers within and without the University as dynamic, highly innovative and excellent scientists and teachers. We intend to generate excitement. OPERATING PHILOSOPHY. To achieve our overall goal of excellence and leadership, we intend to adhere to a set of operating philosophies that we believe will take us there. The following are some of the most important. They should give you some flavor of the plans to come! • We will strive for excellence in all aspects of our work. Excellent performance will be expected. • We will emphasize innovation in our teaching, research, and service programs. Innovative thinking will also be applied to organizational, administrative, and developmental matters. • We will actively develop our faculty and staff and make it possible for them to achieve their full potential as professionals, scientists and individuals. • Faculty, administrators, and staff will be rewarded on the basis of the merit of their performance. We plan to be competitive in terms of compensation and academic environment to retain our excellent faculty. • We will foster an excellent learning environment for our students. We will expect and encourage our students to think and learn independently, to correlate and interpret information, and to record and communicate the latter accurately and lucidly. • In order to keep current, all faculty are expected to actively participate in research and/or in the application of new technologies and new knowledge to teaching and diagnostic services. • Collaborative research efforts will be encouraged within and between departments, schools, and other academic or research institutions. • Internal research funds will be directed toward research proposals judged to be of peer review quality and will support pilot projects, rather than serve as sustaining support. Faculty are expected to compete for extramural funding. • Resources of space, technical assistance, and equipment will be efficiently utilized. Resources will be reassigned as programs expand or contract. • Our clinical, diagnostic, and investigative service responsibilities will be performed according to the highest standards. %# The various administrative functions expected of faculty, such as committee assignments, task force membership, etc., are viewed as important, but will be kept to an essential minimum. Faculty will be expected to take assignments seriously and to give them their full commitment and attention. • We will be fair, direct, and honest in all our dealings with others. Although we have a long way to go to achieve our overall goal, I am confident that we will get there. My confidence is based on fact and a simple premise. The fact is, the quality of our human resources (faculty and staff) is second to none. Thus, if we support and develop each individual so that he/she reaches his/her full potential, we will have an unbeatable organization! Hugh Bilson Lewis Dean Department Profile 777e Changing Face of Purdue's Small Animal Clinic Now, as in the past, the Purdue Small Animal Clinic continues to provide veterinary service for the surrounding community and the state of Indiana. During the past four years, however, there have been exciting additions to the clinic faculty which have allowed greater specialization and a tremendous expansion in available diagnostics and therapeutics. This, in turn, has increased the amount and quality of available small animal veterinary services while providing an opportunity to explore new areas of clinical research ultimately designed to improve the health of dogs and cats and, in some instances, lay the groundwork for further studies in human medicine. Perhaps this expansion and development is best exemplified by the comparative oncology program founded by Dr. Gordon Coppoc, Dr. Ralph Richardson, Dr. William Carlton, and others at Purdue in the late 1970's. The Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP) was established to care for pets with cancer and allow the information gained during that evaluation and treatment to be used as a model for human cancer. Several forms of therapy have been developed that are available to pet owners, and many are supported financially through grants. Combining radiation with heat has been one of the most successful protocols for treating tumors. It has been most effective in dogs and cats with solitary tumors. Drs. H. Dan Cantwell, Gary Lantz, and Ralph Richardson are currently investigating intraoperative radiation therapy as a method of treatment for selected dog and cat tumors. Intraoperative radiation therapy is the direct delivery of a single large dose of radiation to a resected tumor bed and surrounding areas where tumor spread may have occurred. This treatment is appropriate for those tumors that cannot be completely removed with surgery. The purpose of intraoperative radiation therapy is to destroy residual tumor cells immediately after Bud, a long time resident blood donor of the Small Animal Clinic, looks on as Dr. Walter E. Weirich and Kristine A. Kazmierczak, R. V. T, run a print-out of his ECG on the department's new ECG analyzer. tumor excision. Cancericidal doses of radiation can be delivered directly to tumor beds exposed during surgery, thereby improving the protection of surrounding or overlying normal tissue and hopefully minimizing the development of adverse reactions. Drs. Kathy Salisbury and Gary Lantz are developing new, more versatile reconstructive techniques to allow excision of large, aggressive tumors as well as repair of chronic oronasal fistulas and cleft palates. Many oral and facial tumors, such as malignant melanomas and squamous cell carcinomas, that commonly recur following conventional surgical excision, are now being successfully treated by more aggressive surgical procedures. Partial mandibulectomy and maxillect- omy allow wide resection of the tumor together with the adjacent bone. Al- continued on page 2 ■fr
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Title | Purdue University veterinary medical update, 1987, v. 12, no. 2 (January) |
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Veterinary Medicine Education, Veterinary |
Creators | Purdue University. School of Veterinary Medicine |
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Collection Title | SVM Report |
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Subjects (MeSH) |
Veterinary Medicine Education, Veterinary |
Creators | Purdue University. School of Veterinary Medicine |
Subjects (LCSH) | Veterinary medicine--Study and teaching (Higher) |
Genre | Periodical |
Coverage | United States |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Collection Title | SVM Report |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Language | eng |
Rights Statement | Digital object copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using Bookeye 3 internal software, with 24 bit color depth. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Transcript | Purdue University Veterinary Medical VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2 JANUARY 1987 Progress Report from the Dean Strategic Operating Plan /s On Track I am pleased to report that the SVM planning process is progressing quite well and is essentially on track. We hope to be finished by the end of the first quarter in 1987. The highlights of our strategic operating plan will be discussed in the next issue of UPDATE. For a strategic operating plan to be successful, it must be based on solid foundations. In an organization like PUSVM, it is important to have a clear understanding of the University and School charters, to have a well-defined and worthwhile set of goals, and an operating philosophy which is in congruence with the School's character and is broadly understood by its faculty and staff. Position documents in these areas have been prepared and widely disseminated. Here are a few of the important features. CHARTER. In addition to the obvious and essential elements of our broad mission, i.e., teaching, research and public service, we also now recognize a responsibility for providing continuing education and training programs designed to upgrade the knowledge base and technical competence of veterinary scientists and technicians. We plan to develop innovative programs in continuing education that will prepare our students for a lifetime of effective learning, and our graduates with the skills, experience and confidence to remain current and competitive. Our new Practitioner Sabbatical Program is a tangible manifestation of our commitment to innovative approaches to continuing education. GOAL. The overall goal of PUSVM is to be the leading veterinary educational institution in the United States by the turn of the century. On the surface, this would appear to be a very tall order, for we lack the human and physical resources of many of the other schools. However, we believe that leadership is more a reflection of rttitude, spirit, and quality of thinking than of size and resources. Our faculty aspire to be viewed by their peers within and without the University as dynamic, highly innovative and excellent scientists and teachers. We intend to generate excitement. OPERATING PHILOSOPHY. To achieve our overall goal of excellence and leadership, we intend to adhere to a set of operating philosophies that we believe will take us there. The following are some of the most important. They should give you some flavor of the plans to come! • We will strive for excellence in all aspects of our work. Excellent performance will be expected. • We will emphasize innovation in our teaching, research, and service programs. Innovative thinking will also be applied to organizational, administrative, and developmental matters. • We will actively develop our faculty and staff and make it possible for them to achieve their full potential as professionals, scientists and individuals. • Faculty, administrators, and staff will be rewarded on the basis of the merit of their performance. We plan to be competitive in terms of compensation and academic environment to retain our excellent faculty. • We will foster an excellent learning environment for our students. We will expect and encourage our students to think and learn independently, to correlate and interpret information, and to record and communicate the latter accurately and lucidly. • In order to keep current, all faculty are expected to actively participate in research and/or in the application of new technologies and new knowledge to teaching and diagnostic services. • Collaborative research efforts will be encouraged within and between departments, schools, and other academic or research institutions. • Internal research funds will be directed toward research proposals judged to be of peer review quality and will support pilot projects, rather than serve as sustaining support. Faculty are expected to compete for extramural funding. • Resources of space, technical assistance, and equipment will be efficiently utilized. Resources will be reassigned as programs expand or contract. • Our clinical, diagnostic, and investigative service responsibilities will be performed according to the highest standards. %# The various administrative functions expected of faculty, such as committee assignments, task force membership, etc., are viewed as important, but will be kept to an essential minimum. Faculty will be expected to take assignments seriously and to give them their full commitment and attention. • We will be fair, direct, and honest in all our dealings with others. Although we have a long way to go to achieve our overall goal, I am confident that we will get there. My confidence is based on fact and a simple premise. The fact is, the quality of our human resources (faculty and staff) is second to none. Thus, if we support and develop each individual so that he/she reaches his/her full potential, we will have an unbeatable organization! Hugh Bilson Lewis Dean Department Profile 777e Changing Face of Purdue's Small Animal Clinic Now, as in the past, the Purdue Small Animal Clinic continues to provide veterinary service for the surrounding community and the state of Indiana. During the past four years, however, there have been exciting additions to the clinic faculty which have allowed greater specialization and a tremendous expansion in available diagnostics and therapeutics. This, in turn, has increased the amount and quality of available small animal veterinary services while providing an opportunity to explore new areas of clinical research ultimately designed to improve the health of dogs and cats and, in some instances, lay the groundwork for further studies in human medicine. Perhaps this expansion and development is best exemplified by the comparative oncology program founded by Dr. Gordon Coppoc, Dr. Ralph Richardson, Dr. William Carlton, and others at Purdue in the late 1970's. The Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP) was established to care for pets with cancer and allow the information gained during that evaluation and treatment to be used as a model for human cancer. Several forms of therapy have been developed that are available to pet owners, and many are supported financially through grants. Combining radiation with heat has been one of the most successful protocols for treating tumors. It has been most effective in dogs and cats with solitary tumors. Drs. H. Dan Cantwell, Gary Lantz, and Ralph Richardson are currently investigating intraoperative radiation therapy as a method of treatment for selected dog and cat tumors. Intraoperative radiation therapy is the direct delivery of a single large dose of radiation to a resected tumor bed and surrounding areas where tumor spread may have occurred. This treatment is appropriate for those tumors that cannot be completely removed with surgery. The purpose of intraoperative radiation therapy is to destroy residual tumor cells immediately after Bud, a long time resident blood donor of the Small Animal Clinic, looks on as Dr. Walter E. Weirich and Kristine A. Kazmierczak, R. V. T, run a print-out of his ECG on the department's new ECG analyzer. tumor excision. Cancericidal doses of radiation can be delivered directly to tumor beds exposed during surgery, thereby improving the protection of surrounding or overlying normal tissue and hopefully minimizing the development of adverse reactions. Drs. Kathy Salisbury and Gary Lantz are developing new, more versatile reconstructive techniques to allow excision of large, aggressive tumors as well as repair of chronic oronasal fistulas and cleft palates. Many oral and facial tumors, such as malignant melanomas and squamous cell carcinomas, that commonly recur following conventional surgical excision, are now being successfully treated by more aggressive surgical procedures. Partial mandibulectomy and maxillect- omy allow wide resection of the tumor together with the adjacent bone. Al- continued on page 2 ■fr |
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