Dr. Locke Karriker, Morrill Professor and the Dr. Douglas and Ann Gustafson Professor for Educating Excellence in Veterinary Drugs, has been named the chair of the Division of Veterinary Diagnostic and Manufacturing Animal Drugs and the manager director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. His appointment is efficient Might 12, 2025.
A school member within the Faculty of Veterinary Drugs since 2003, Karriker is the director and founding father of the Swine Drugs Training Middle (SMEC), the one such middle within the nation devoted to offering veterinary college students and practising veterinarians from internationally with in depth hands-on experiences and training in swine well being and manufacturing.
Whereas at Iowa State, Karriker beforehand served as VDPAM’s interim division chair for greater than a 12 months and is a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic Resistant Micro organism. Karriker was named a Morrill Professor at Iowa State for his demonstrated success in educating and studying within the classroom and has held the Gustafson Professorship since 2014.
Along with the Morrill Professor and Gustafson Professorship, Karriker is the recipient of a number of Iowa State College awards for educating excellence. These embrace the ISU Excellence in Distant Instruction Award, the ISU Award for Excellent Achievement in Educating, and the CVM College Member of the Yr.
The American Affiliation of Swine Veterinarians awarded Karriker with the Howard Dunne Memorial Award in 2014 and he was named the Alumnus of the Yr for Mississippi State College’s Faculty of Veterinary Drugs in 2012. He’s a Diplomate of the American Faculty of Veterinary Preventive Drugs.
Karriker replaces Dr. Pat Halbur in these positions. Halbur is retiring after 35 years of service to the Faculty of Veterinary Drugs in quite a lot of positions together with interim dean.
