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1999 College of Veterinary Medicine
Alumni Fellow
Curt Mann '86, DVM
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Executive Director
Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges
Dr. Curt J. Mann is the Executive Director of the Association of American
Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) located in Washington, D.C. As the Executive Director,
Dr. Mann directs the affairs of the 27 U.S. veterinary medical colleges, 4 Canadian
veterinary medical colleges, departments of veterinary science, departments of comparative
medicine, and animal medical centers. It is the mission of AAVMC to foster the teaching,
research, and service missions nationally and internationally of academic veterinary
medicine and to serve the profession of veterinary medicine generally. Dr. Mann’s
challenge is to represent academic veterinary medicine with all its diversity to Congress
and the executive branch as well as to other associations and constituencies domestically
and internationally.
He has been in his current position for a little over one year and has
overseen the activities of a dynamic association. During his time with the AAVMC, Dr. Mann
has been involved with a variety of changes within the Association. Some of these have
included: making the Veterinary Medical Centralized Application Service a division of
AAVMC, the creation of a new task force on comparative medicine to explore opportunities
for academic veterinary medicine in biomedical research, the refinement of the Association
committee structure, and led efforts to establish a coalition of academic health
professions collectively analyzing the student debt issue across the health professions.
Prior to Dr. Mann’s current position, he spent 5 years as a
professional staff member to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture.
During his time with the Committee, he served as a policy analyst and advised the
Committee Members on issues involving food safety, livestock health, animal welfare, and
research. During his time the Agriculture Committee, Curt also acted as minority
consultant to the House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry, and for one
congressional session served as the minority consultant to the House Subcommittee on
General Farm Commodities.
Before the permanent assignment with the Committee, he was the recipient
of the AVMA’s 1991-92 Congressional Fellowship in which he served for one year with
the House Committee on Agriculture. The fellowship program was part of the American
Association for the Advancement Science (AAAS) Congressional Science and Engineering
Fellowship program.
Proceeding his time on Capital Hill, Curt worked as a practicing
veterinarian for 5 years, and today continues an active practice schedule where he sees
patients and clients on a part-time basis at a local veterinary hospital.
He graduated from Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine
in 1986. Prior to veterinary medical school, he attended Montana State University and the
University of Wyoming majoring in microbiology.
Curt lives in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and enjoys fishing,
woodworking, gardening, and art in his spare time.
Dr. Curt Mann, Executive Director of the Association of American
Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC), is the 1999 College of
Veterinary Medicine Alumni Fellow. Dr. Mann is a 1986 CVM
graduate.
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