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Bettye Walters

Bettye Walters, DVM

CPCVM Director
 
Phone: 301-314-6821
Fax: 301-314-6855
E-mail: bwalter1@umd.edu

Dr. Walters is the Director of the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine, with primary responsibility for programs directed at post-graduate veterinarians in government and corporate veterinary medicine.  Dr. Walters also coordinates clerkships for veterinary students in government agencies such as the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and animal shelters and humane societies.  She is the course leader for a Food Safety for Veterinarians course and designed, plus, implemented a preparatory course for veterinarians taking the American College of Preventive Medicine boards.  Further, she is initiating a course which covers ethical and legal issues surrounding animals in research, production and exhibition.  Dr. Walters obtained her DVM degree from Tuskegee University.  Her primary experience has been with public practice veterinary medicine, with various positions throughout the country with the Veteran's Administration, the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).