UC Davis shelter medicine program receives financial boost

Davis, Calif.

-- The Center for Companion Animal Health, University of California, Davis, received a $100,000 grant for the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program from the ASPCA.

The Koret Shelter Medicine Program was established to advance shelter medicine as a veterinary specialty through clinical studies, specialty training and education, and performance of veterinary service in animal shelters, and to elevate the quality of life of animals in shelters through improvements in veterinary preventive medicine and management of disease.

With the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' grant, the Koret Shelter Medicine Program will be able to hire a shelter medicine veterinary specialist, who will provide consultations and outreach advice to shelters across the country.

"The ASPCA's generous grant will enable us to further our reach and scientific knowledge, as well as combine that knowledge with the long history of leadership and professional resources that the ASPCA offers," says Dr. Kate Hurley, director of the Koret Shelter Medicine Program. "The benefits are that more animals will be saved, shelter staff will be less stressed and shelters will save money."

The grant renewable annually for the next three years.

More information about the program can be obtained from the U.C. Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program here.