Beginning in 2015, Massey University's College of Sciences in New Zealand will be led by internationally-recognized veterinary and agricultural science specialist Professor Raymond Geor, BVSc, MVSc, PhD, DACVIM.
Professor Geor is currently Professor and Chairperson of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine in the United States. In recent years, his research and publications have been invaluable to the understanding of obesity and Equine Metabolic Syndrome in horses, and how it may relate to laminitis, as well as more than 180 other research papers in equine nutrition and physiology.
The
university Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey announced today that Professor
Geor will replace the current Pro Vice-Chancellor of the college,
Professor Robert Anderson, who is retiring later this year.
Professor
Geor is a Massey Bachelor of Veterinary Science graduate (1983) who has
worked in tertiary education in the United States and Canada for most of
the past 30 years. He was raised in Havelock North and attended St
John's College in Hastings, both in New Zealand.
He has a Master of Veterinary Science from the University of Saskatchewan, a PhD in Physiology from The Ohio State University
and breadth of institutional experience in veterinary medicine and
agriculture as a leader/administrator, professor, clinical veterinarian,
teacher and researcher.
That experience includes his current role at Michigan State, as well as posts at Virginia Tech University, Kentucky Equine Research Incorporated, University of Minnesota, the University of Guelph and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, as well as a practicing veterinarian in New Zealand.
Geor has been a frequent presenter in the research program at the International Equine Conference on Laminitis and Diseases of the Foot in West Palm Beach, Florida.
He will join the university in March next year.
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