Recognition Awards
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2007 Outstanding Woman Veterinarian of the Year
Dr. Carla L. Carleton, MSU associate professor of equine theriogenology, was named the 2007 Outstanding Woman Veterinarian of the Year by the Association for Women Veterinarians Foundation on Monday, July 16, 2007. The award honors a woman graduate of an accredited veterinary school in recognition of special effort and achievement in any area of veterinary medicine. Winners are selected on the strength of their professional accomplishments.
Dr. Carleton is a very talented, board certified, equine theriogenologist. In addition to her clinical duties, and her years of teaching veterinary students and residents at Michigan State University, and previously at the Ohio State University, she has a long history of international collaboration.
One of her first international involvements, which began in 1992 (and continues today), was at a thoroughbred stud farm in India, where she worked with and trained equine veterinarians. Her activities have evolved to include continuing education for Indian equine veterinarians on a larger scale. In 1996, following invited lectures at a veterinary conference in Chiang Mai, she extended her reach to Bangkok and other provinces of Thailand. This collaboration with colleagues in Bangkok provides veterinary care in an underserved province in northern Thailand. Dr. Carleton and Dr. Siraya Chunekamrai initiated a study in Feb. 2003 to study the seroprevalence of equine disease in this part of the world, in what had been an area void of routine vaccinations and other preventive care. The initial results of the seroprevalence study were presented to the World Equine Veterinary Association in Marrakech, Morocco in 2006.
She and her colleagues (Chunekamrai and Nanna Luthersson) founded the Lampang Pony Clinic (LPC) in April 2004. The staff of the LPC continues to provide regular healthcare to the ponies and horses of Lampang and surrounding provincial villages. The building of the clinic was made possible by funds provided by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). The LPC provides preventive healthcare and medical treatment of colic and wounds, addresses problems linked with nutrition (deficits resulting from a rice-based local diet), and conducts quarterly continuing education meetings for the drivers of local pony carriages.
Dr. Carleton was a main instigator, co-chairperson, and lecturer/lab instructor of the first weeklong conference of the Indian Association of Equine Practitioners (IAEP) held in Pune, Maharashtra State, India in November 2003. At its closing ceremony she was recognized as the “Mother of the first IAEP Conference.” She is a pioneer in large-animal veterinary medicine, representing women in Southeast Asia, Northern Africa, and India, where there are few female veterinarians in large-animal practice. The team’s efforts (Drs. Chunekamrai, Carleton & Luthersson) extended into provision of veterinary care to native ponies in underserved areas in Cambodia in December 2006 and early 2007. Local Khmer veterinary graduates are receiving additional training at the LPC and with a mobile unit will begin to provide veterinary care to equids in rural Cambodian villages.
Dr. Carleton has partnered with equine veterinary practitioners in India, Thailand, Cambodia, and Morocco. Her nomination was supported by letters from veterinarians of six countries on three different continents. While she works on valuable racing and performance horses in the States, her passion lies with working equids essential to the success and survival of the village farmer/family economy.
Dr. Carleton has been involved in organized veterinary medicine in multiple capacities since receiving her DVM. She is currently in the AVMA House of Delegates (HOD) representing the Society for Theriogenology and, to date, has served in the HOD for fourteen years. She is a past-president of the American College of Theriogenologists and was the ACT’s representative to the American Board of Veterinary Specialties (ABVS) for nine years, serving on its Executive Board for three years and as ABVS’ first woman chairperson. A new foundation, ACT Globally, Inc. has been created to continue the veterinary projects serving these rural communities and their native ponies.
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