The LAF veterinary staff implements veterinary medical services/programs for all research animals at UMC. The veterinary staff provides guidance to investigators and laboratory personnel involved in the care and use of animals to ensure appropriate handling, immobilization, sedation, analgesia, anesthesia, and euthanasia. Specific aspects of the veterinary program deal with the following.

• Preventive medicine: rodent health surveillance, animal quarantine/conditioning programs.
• Diagnosis, treatment, and control of clinical disease, including zoonosis control.
• Management of protocol-associated disease, disability, or other sequelae.
• Anesthesia, surgery, postsurgical care, and analgesia
• Assessment of animal well being.
• Euthanasia.

A member of the LAF veterinary staff is on-call at all times. The UMC emergency veterinary pager is reached by dialing 9-881-7693 from any touch-tone telephone.

Office Hours: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Monday – Friday.
Business Phone Number: 984-1385
Facsimile Number: 984-1742