Photonic Laser & the Veterinary Outreach Program
Monday, January 31st, 2005Veterinary Outreach Program
“Minnesota,” a tiger from a San Fernando wild animal refuge, undergoes a 3-hour laser operation to remove a tumor from his upper palate.
In collaboration with veterinary medical schools, this program plays a significant role in extending laser technology to the veterinary medical community and giving animal patients state-of-the-art treatment.
Because patients–pets, horses, even zoo animals–are from the ordinary veterinary community, medical researchers get the added benefit of studying naturally occurring diseases and therapies in a normal population. The VOP provides four primary benefits to veterinarians, their patients and clients, and Institute researchers:
1. As part of the Institute’s commitment to continuing post-graduate education, the VOP offers training in laser biomedicine to the veterinary community.
2. The VOP extends the resources of the Institute to veterinarians. These resources include the expertise of Institute staff, the broad range of laser and related technologies, and the veterinary operating facility.
3. The VOP offers treatment modalities for veterinary cases which do not respond either well or at all to conventional therapies.
4. Finally, the VOP provides Institute researchers a means for the further clinical development of promising laser therapies.
This outreach program provides a unique and important bridge between basic and applied clinical research. These veterinary clinical studies, endorsed by the American, California, and Southern California Veterinary Medical Associations, pave the way for speedier adoption of new therapies in human medicine.
Contact Us!
George M. Peavy, D.V.M., D.A.B.V.P.
gpeavy@laser.bli.uci.edu
(949) 824-4832
Laurie Newman
lnewman@laser.bli.uci.edu
(949) 824-7033