INQUIRIES

Stephen Smith, DVM, MS, PhD
Aquatic Medicine Program
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
Email: stsmith7@vt.edu
540-231-7666

The Aquatic Medicine Program and Laboratory serve as a resource and aquatic animal facility for faculty and graduate students. The program focuses on the diseases, diagnosis, pathology, immunology, parasitology and bacteriology of both vertebrate and invertebrate aquatic organisms. The Aquatic Medicine Laboratory is equipped to maintain a variety of freshwater and marine species and to provide a basic laboratory for investigations into these organisms. The lab also serves as a source of collaborative efforts with other institutions and agencies interested in the culture, diseases, and problems associated with aquatic organisms.

The VA-MD Vet Med Aquatic Medicine Program has the following objectives:

  1. To provide all veterinary students with an introduction to aquatic animal medicine through both lectures and laboratories in elective offerings;
  2. To provide experience and advanced training in aquatic animal medicine to post-DVM and graduate students;
  3. To provide expertise in the health evaluation and management of aquatic animal species; and
  4. To develop a veterinary database for the establishment of clinical assessment values and diagnostic assays for commonly presented species.

The Aquatic Medicine Program of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has an ongoing research program that has focused on a number of specialized areas, including vaccine and diagnostic assay development, mycobacteriosis of fish, hematology and blood chemistry of fishes, pharmacokinetics of therapeutics in fish, diseases of foodfish and tropical fish, rodlet cell characterization, Alaskan fish histopathology and parasitology, and horseshoe crab health.

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