| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
E. P. POPE MEMORIAL AWARD |
The 2008 E. P. Pope Memorial Award was presented to Dr. Willie M. Reed on October 26, 2008 during the 51st Annual Meeting of the AAVLD in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dr. Reed received his DVM degree with high honors from Tuskegee University in 1978. He then performed residency training in pathology and graduate studies at Purdue University and received his PhD in Veterinary Pathology in 1982. He specialized in poultry diseases and is a charter Diplomate of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians. He is also a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP). Dr. Reed remained at Purdue after receiving his PhD as an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of avian pathology, and eventually Assistant Director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory. He was also the Chief of Avian Diseases. In 1990, Dr. Reed moved to Michigan State University and became Director of the Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory and Professor of veterinary pathology. He became Acting Chairperson of the Michigan State University Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation in 1997, and then in 2001, became the Chairperson until 2006. During his tenure at Michigan State University, he promoted the need for a new laboratory facility in the state and helped secure funding for the new laboratory that was finally built and dedicated in 2004. In 2007, Dr. Reed returned to Purdue University to become the Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Throughout Dr. Reed's career, he has been extremely active in various state and national associations. In 1999 and 2000, he was President of the American Association of Avian Pathologists. From 1999 to 2003, he was President of the Tuskegee Veterinary Medical Alumni Association. In 2001, he was elected Vice President of the AAVLD and became President in 2003 and 2004. Prior to becoming President of AAVLD, he served on a number of AAVLD committees including the Accreditation Committee since 1998, the Long-Range Planning, Government Relations, and Pathology Committees, and continued on the Strategic Planning Committee. He was formerly Vice-Chair of the Transmissible Diseases of Poultry for the U.S. Animal Health Association. In addition, especially during his tenure as an officer of AAVLD, he worked closely with the USDA and was a member of the Steering Committee of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He also served as the Liaison to the Food Emergency Response Network. He has been an invaluable advocate for the collaboration of state and federal resources to achieve common goals for animal health and veterinary diagnosticians, and has worked innumerable hours to advance the quality of science and diagnostics.
Dr. Reed has also served in other organizations. He was a member of the panel on euthanasia of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), has served on the AVMA Council on Research, and was elected chair of the Council in 2003. He currently serves as secretary of the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges and has been active in various committees of the ACVP, especially regarding education and training activities.
Throughout his career, Dr. Reed has educated numbers of veterinary students and graduate students, engaged in research mostly regarding avian diseases, received numerous grants, given many presentations, and has had over 80 articles published in refereed scientific journals.
Dr. Reed has served the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians in a tremendous fashion over the past years, and has contributed to the veterinary profession extensively. We are honored to present him with the 2008 E. P. Pope Award.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
