MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT – Chairperson
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
The Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (LCS) at Michigan State University invites applications and nominations for the position of Chairperson. The Chairperson is the principal representative of the Department with authority and responsibility for administrative decisions and reports to the Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. There are currently 41 faculty members including 33 Tenure-system faculty, 6 Fixed-term faculty, 2 Health Programs faculty, 6 residents, 1 intern, 16 graduate students (7 PhD, 9 MS candidates), 3 staff members (in the Department office), and 11 other staff members (centers, labs, etc) in the Department. The LCS faculty expertise includes equine internal medicine, equine surgery, equine sports medicine, food animal medicine and surgery, food animal production medicine, radiology, anesthesiology, theriogenology, large animal emergency and critical care, epidemiology, food safety, toxicology, nutrition, microbiology, and beef, dairy, swine, small ruminant and equine extension. The Veterinary Teaching Hospital, McPhail Center for Equine Performance, Pegasus Center for Critical Care, and the Veterinary Research Farm are state-of the-art facilities in which to conduct outstanding clinical service and teaching, and clinical research. The renowned Training Center for Dairy Professionals is a public-private sector partnership designed to prepare tomorrow’s leaders to serve the dairy industry; it has 3200 milking cows and provides opportunities for DVM students, residents, and visiting faculty. The Department is proud to have endowed chairs in equine sports medicine, respiratory diseases and treatment, farm animal health and wellbeing and evolution of pathogen virulence and host resistance. The faculty have significant external research funding and the Department offers MS and PhD degrees in Large Animal Clinical Sciences. The Department is integrated in several Centers including the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center, the Center for Comparative Epidemiology, and the Center for Integrative Toxicology where scholarship is pursued using a team based approach. Cross department collaboration in research, teaching and outreach is frequent and encouraged