And the 👉🏽 most prestigious teaching award 👈🏽 in the entire UNC System goes to ...

Dr. Katie Sheats! 🥳 🎉👏🏼 Join us in congratulating our professor of equine primary care and associate dean and director of professional education and admissions for being recognized as the best of the best in educating our veterinary students.

Sheats, a native North Carolinian, is a Wolfpacker wonder, having received her bachelor’s and DVM and completed an equine internal medicine residency training and Ph.D. in comparative biomedical sciences all at NC State.

"My life has been changed by all that I have learned from NC State over the years," Sheats says. "I feel honored and privileged to lead the educational mission here at the CVM, which I consider home.”

Read more about Sheats and her teaching expertise at the 🔗 link in our profile. #outstandingteacher #lifechangers #vetmed

Congratulations to Dr. Duncan Lascelles, who has received the 2026 AAVMC Excellence in Research Award for his revolutionary work in advancing our understanding of pain.

Lascelles, professor of Translational Research in Pain and Surgery, and his team study the underlying neurobiology of pain and also develop methods to measure it and control it in companion animals. The work also could lead to developing better analgesics for people`s pain.

"Pain kills," Lascelles says. "It kills who we are as individuals, and, in companion animals, pain has the same effect. Pain that is not managed in companion animals disrupts that beautiful and wonderful human animal bond."

Find out more about his work and the award at the link in our profile.

#painresearch #AAVMC #researchpioneer #ncstatevetmed

"This gift will change everything."

`The 🎁`: an endowment from Amos Cader to create the Vladimir Cader Feline Health Research Distinguished Chair at @NCState .

The `🌎`: research into feline cardiac diseases, including the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that took Cader`s beloved cat away from him.

In a ceremony last week, Dr. Joshua Stern, our associate dean of research and graduate studies, became the first recipient of the chair — a position that will live on and fund feline research forever, thanks to Cader`s generosity.

Get all of the details of this amazing gift that could turbo-charge feline health at the link in our profile. #generosity #felinehealth #felineresearch #ncstatevetmed #HCM #distinguishedchair

The fourth annual Feline Health Symposium is underway at NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, presented in partnership with the EveryCat Health Foundation. Today’s sessions are packed with insights on feline healthy aging, from nutritional needs in senior cats to chronic kidney disease, anesthesia and pain management. Two tracks, one goal: better health for every cat. 🐾
#FelineHealthSymposium #FelineHealth

The NC State Veterinary Medicine Open House was so engaging to Anna Thompson that the nurse practitioner said she was ready to go back to school. “I wanna go back and be a vet,” she said.

That sense of awe permeated the campus Saturday as thousands of people enjoyed exhibits and tours of the campus. Community members sampled, among other tour stops, a surgery suite, a neuro-aging lab, an exotics animal showroom and a veterinary college admissions information booth. They also had access to eight hands-on research exhibits including Datamining DNA and Growing Guts and demonstrations with cows, agility dogs and kittens.

Dane Johnston, director of Continuing Education and Outreach, has organized the event 15 times.

"I love it," he said. "When the public comes in, they are blown away, and it reminds us of how blown away we are to be working in a place like this.”

Read the rest of the story and enjoy more pictures at the link in our profile.

#Openhouse #thrivingCVMcommunity #NCStateVetMed #animallovers

Dr. Autumn Harris has dedicated her career to researching chronic kidney disease in companion animals. With funding from the AKC Canine Health Foundation, Inc., her most recent study identified a marker in urine that could lead to ‼️ catching the disease earlier, ‼️ allowing for targeted intervention and better outcomes.

Tonja Walker enrolled Ruby, her cherished black and gray doodle who developed kidney disease early, into the ongoing study in the hopes that Ruby`s experience could help others.

“You just have to hope that in some way, everything that she’s going through won’t be in vain,” Walker recently told CBS 17.

Now, the foundation has announced it will fund a second study — scheduled to start this summer — so that Harris can explore treatment options.

Watch the CBS 17 segment with reporter Judith Ratana at the link in our profile!