What: Education/Research Event (at our club meeting but anyone is welcome)
When: 7pm November 14th (2nd Tuesday due to holidays)
Where: C&J BBQ (off WJ Bryan and Hwy 6)

Who: BCSRC member Dr. Kate Aicher, graduated from Texas A&M University in 2012 with her DVM. She then completed a 1-year small animal medicine and surgery internship at the University of Tennessee, followed by a 3-year small animal internal medicine residency at North Carolina State University. She became a board-certified small animal internal medicine specialist by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Following her residency at NCSU, she became a Staff Internist, and later Chief of Staff and Medical Director at a multi-hospital emergency and specialty hospital in central North Carolina. In the summer of 2021, she decided to return to academia to help start the new Texas A&M 2+2 program at VERO in Canyon. She then relocated to the College Station vet school campus in 2022 where she teaches vet students, interns, and residents, performs clinical duty in the small animal hospital, and conducts research with the Gastrointestinal Laboratory and Dog Aging Project. Her research interests are focused primarily into epidemiology of canine liver disease, with particular interest in diseases that affect Labrador Retrievers, including copper associated liver diseases and Heterobilharzia americana (liver flukes). She has two Labrador Retrievers, Rogue and Jordan, as well as one geriatric mare named Ruby. ... See MoreSee Less