Multicultural Veterinary Medical Association (MCVMA)

👀 Are you a practice owner, hiring manager, or recruiter looking to diversify your staff to meet the needs of your clientele and put your values into action? 🦄 Are you a veterinary or animal welfare professional looking for *that* job or paid opportunity that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging? 🙌🏾 List or look for your next job or paid position with us! The MCVMA job board accepts employment listings as well as paid internships, externships, residencies, and board opportunities. It also requires that employers: ✅ List salary — because let's be real, fam, no one wants to waste their time in interviews without knowing if the salary is gonna be a deal breaker! ✅ Answer DEI focused questions — we just gotta know, ya know? After all, this is what we're all about! ✨ We offer listing discounts to small, BIPOC-owned veterinary businesses and nonprofits. 💥 Check us out and spread the word! www.mcvma.org/job-board

Join MCVMA at the 2024 American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture Annual meeting in Seattle, Washington! Treasurer and Founding Board Member Dr. Marie Sato Quicksall will be presenting Cultural Competence and Inclusivity in Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine on Sunday April 21st, 2024.

MCVMA and PetDesk are pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Veterinary Business Start-Up Grant, Dr. Simuel Hampton! Dr. Hampton runs a mobile small animal practice in Chicago's south side. With the help of the grant, Dr. Hampton plans to expand to a brick and mortar facility in the veterinary care desert of Chicago's south side. He also hopes the business will be a community stabilizer and positively impact the economic activity in the area. Thank you to Dr. Hampton and all of the applicants doing important and meaningful work in the veterinary field. We want to thank you for your commitment to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in veterinary medicine.

Did you miss our joint webinar “On Becoming a Veterinarian, My Story and the Lessons Learned: A Discussion with Dr. Jody Lulich” with Pride VMC ? The recording is available on PrideVMC's website and linked here: https://buff.ly/40CMh6a Thank you to Dr. Lulich for sharing your story and Dr. Pallavi Oruganti, Dr. Cherice Roth, and Dr. Ewan Wolff for moderating.

MCVMA is excited to announce our new and improved job board! The new, streamlined process will gets post up faster and with fewer steps. It also allows users to search job post and use filters to find the jobs that meet their needs. Post a job opening, search for jobs, and find out more at mcvma.org/job-board

Happening tomorrow! On Becoming a Veterinarian, My Story and the Lessons Learned: A Discussion with Dr. Jody Lulich Tuesday, November 14, 2023 7:00-8:00pm CT Some of us know what we want to do with our lives at a very young age. We see ourselves in our parents, our teachers, or our neighbors. Some of us, by chance, grow into what we want to become as we experience the world around us. And some of us answer a call to correct a wrong. Come with us on a journey from the South Side of Chicago to the Tuskegee School of Veterinary Medicine in Alabama to an endowed chair at the University of Minnesota as we discuss with the author his recent book, In the Company of Grace, a veterinarian’s memoir of trauma and healing. MCVMA and Pride VMC present this live event with Dr. Pallavi Oruganti and Dr. Ewan Wolff serving as cohosts. The event is open to all and will be recorded with the recording link accessible after the event on both organization’s websites. Reg Link: https://buff.ly/3Qiyj5Q Dr. Jody Lulich is the director of the Minnesota Urolith Center. He holds the endowed Hills/Osborne Professorship at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in nephrology and urology and has earned an international reputation as a clinical investigator and educator in this field and has published more than four hundred publications in scientific journals and books, and awarded over $6,000,000 in funded research. Among his contributions to veterinary medicine is the technique of voiding urohydropropulsion, a nonsurgical method to remove uroliths in seconds from the urinary bladder. In 2007, he was voted as Speaker of The Year at the North American Veterinary Conference held in Orlando, Florida. He was awarded the Norden-Pfizer-Zoetis Distinguished Teacher Award in 2001 & 2013. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Tuskegee Veterinary Alumni Association in March of 2009, and the Mark L. Morris Life Time Achievement Award in January of 2012. He is the 2023 President of the prestigious R.O.C.K. (Research on Calculi Kinetics) Society, the first veterinarian to hold this office. In 2023, he received the ACVIM Lifetime Achievement Award. A published memoir of his veterinary career path, In the Company of Grace was released in April of 2023. He teaches indoor spin classes to stay fit. He lives in Minnesota with his husband, two dogs, one cat and studies classical piano. #veterinary #vetmed #mcvma #pridevmc #inthecompanyofgrace #tucvm #bettertogether #loveplusactionwins #vetmedpride

On Becoming a Veterinarian, My Story and the Lessons Learned: A Discussion with Dr. Jody Lulich Tuesday, November 14, 2023 7:00-8:00pm CT Some of us know what we want to do with our lives at a very young age. We see ourselves in our parents, our teachers, or our neighbors. Some of us, by chance, grow into what we want to become as we experience the world around us. And some of us answer a call to correct a wrong. Come with us on a journey from the South Side of Chicago to the Tuskegee School of Veterinary Medicine in Alabama to an endowed chair at the University of Minnesota as we discuss with the author his recent book, In the Company of Grace, a veterinarian’s memoir of trauma and healing. MCVMA and Pride VMC present this live event with Dr. Pallavi Oruganti and Dr. Ewan Wolff serving as cohosts. The event is open to all and will be recorded with the recording link accessible after the event on both organization’s websites. Reg Link: https://buff.ly/3Qiyj5Q Dr. Jody Lulich is the director of the Minnesota Urolith Center. He holds the endowed Hills/Osborne Professorship at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in nephrology and urology and has earned an international reputation as a clinical investigator and educator in this field and has published more than four hundred publications in scientific journals and books, and awarded over $6,000,000 in funded research. Among his contributions to veterinary medicine is the technique of voiding urohydropropulsion, a nonsurgical method to remove uroliths in seconds from the urinary bladder. In 2007, he was voted as Speaker of The Year at the North American Veterinary Conference held in Orlando, Florida. He was awarded the Norden-Pfizer-Zoetis Distinguished Teacher Award in 2001 & 2013. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Tuskegee Veterinary Alumni Association in March of 2009, and the Mark L. Morris Life Time Achievement Award in January of 2012. He is the 2023 President of the prestigious R.O.C.K. (Research on Calculi Kinetics) Society, the first veterinarian to hold this office. In 2023, he received the ACVIM Lifetime Achievement Award. A published memoir of his veterinary career path, In the Company of Grace was released in April of 2023. He teaches indoor spin classes to stay fit. He lives in Minnesota with his husband, two dogs, one cat and studies classical piano. #veterinary #vetmed #mcvma #pridevmc #inthecompanyofgrace #tucvm #bettertogether #loveplusactionwins #vetmedpride

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On Becoming a Veterinarian, My Story and the Lessons Learned: A Discussion with Dr. Jody Lulich Tuesday, November 14, 2023 7:00-8:00pm CT Some of us know what we want to do with our lives at a very young age. We see ourselves in our parents, our teachers, or our neighbors. Some of us, by chance, grow into what we want to become as we experience the world around us. And some of us answer a call to correct a wrong. Come with us on a journey from the South Side of Chicago to the Tuskegee School of Veterinary Medicine in Alabama to an endowed chair at the University of Minnesota as we discuss with the author his recent book, In the Company of Grace, a veterinarian’s memoir of trauma and healing. MCVMA and PrideVMC present this live event with Dr. Pallavi Oruganti and Dr. Ewan Wolff serving as cohosts. The event is open to all and will be recorded with the recording link accessible after the event on both organization’s websites. Reg Link: https://buff.ly/3Qiyj5Q Dr. Jody Lulich is the director of the Minnesota Urolith Center. He holds the endowed Hills/Osborne Professorship at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in nephrology and urology and has earned an international reputation as a clinical investigator and educator in this field and has published more than four hundred publications in scientific journals and books, and awarded over $6,000,000 in funded research. Among his contributions to veterinary medicine is the technique of voiding urohydropropulsion, a nonsurgical method to remove uroliths in seconds from the urinary bladder. In 2007, he was voted as Speaker of The Year at the North American Veterinary Conference held in Orlando, Florida. He was awarded the Norden-Pfizer-Zoetis Distinguished Teacher Award in 2001 & 2013. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Tuskegee Veterinary Alumni Association in March of 2009, and the Mark L. Morris Life Time Achievement Award in January of 2012. He is the 2023 President of the prestigious R.O.C.K. (Research on Calculi Kinetics) Society, the first veterinarian to hold this office. In 2023, he received the ACVIM Lifetime Achievement Award. A published memoir of his veterinary career path, In the Company of Grace was released in April of 2023. He teaches indoor spin classes to stay fit. He lives in Minnesota with his husband, two dogs, one cat and studies classical piano.