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Veterinary Health Center update

We hope you and your family enjoyed a safe and healthy 2025. Thank you for your continued support of our mission to teach, heal, discover and serve. Your partnership strengthens our ability to provide exceptional service to you, your clients and their animals.

It is an exciting time at the Veterinary Health Center (VHC) as we continue advancing our profession through clinical service, teaching and clinical research.

Leadership updates

Drs. Leah Cohn, Joanne Kramer and Jeffrey Bryan continue to serve as Associate Chairs for Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Large Animal Clinical Sciences and Multispecies Services within the VHC. Their leadership is instrumental in ensuring our hospital remains an outstanding resource for animal owners and a premier training environment for the next generation of veterinarians.

I continue to serve as Chair of the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery and Director of the Veterinary Health Center. As many of you know, I have been privileged to serve in leadership roles within our college for many years. During 2026, I plan to step down from these positions, and Dean Srinand Sreevatsen has initiated a search for my successors. Once those new leaders are in place, I look forward to continuing my work in teaching and clinical service within the anesthesia section.

It has been an honor to work alongside our exceptional Mizzou team — and equally rewarding to collaborate with our referring veterinarians, alumni and the clients and animals you entrust to us. Your partnership remains central to our mission.

Referring veterinarians guide

To better support you, we’re transitioning the referring veterinarians guide to a fully digital format. This page has been reimagined as a curated hub that connects you to the most relevant areas of our website. Because this resource lives online, it can be updated as changes occur within the VHC, ensuring that contact information, services and processes remain current. In addition to standard referral information, this page provides expanded access points designed to support efficient case coordination and continuity of care.

We welcome your feedback as we continue refining this resource to better serve our referring partners.

VHC – Columbia updates

Equine Medicine and Surgery: Dr. Philip Johnson has retired after many years of dedicated service. We are actively recruiting a new faculty member to join Dr. Hannah Leventhal in expanding our equine emergency and critical care services.
Food Animal: Dr. Rachel Oman has re-joined our food animal faculty. A Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Large Animal Internal Medicine), Dr. Oman earned her DVM from Colorado State University and completed advanced training in food animal medicine and large animal internal medicine at Oklahoma State University.
Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care: Two new criticalists will be joining our SAECC team in summer 2026. Rebuilding this team will allow us to expand support for emergent and critically ill patients. More updates to come.

Investing in excellence

At the VHC, we remain committed to providing the highest level of care for Missouri’s animals. Recent investments include:

Advanced diagnostics:
- Our dentistry service now utilizes cone-beam CT technology, significantly improving imaging of dental lesions and enhancing diagnostic precision for canine and feline patients.
- Our 3T MRI has been upgraded with AI-assisted artifact reduction, offering exceptional neurological and musculoskeletal imaging. This is the only system of its kind in Missouri dedicated exclusively to animal imaging.
Leading-edge research:
- Ongoing clinical trials in cardiology, internal medicine, oncology and neurology continue to advance veterinary medicine.

We are excited about these advancements and remain deeply committed to excellence in clinical service, teaching and research.

Sincerely,