girls with pi !!
Here is our first ever video! I spoke with Dr. Sue LaRue at Colorado State University, Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
Dr. LaRue she:
really liked math and science in school;
loves her job – treating patients, teaching, and research;
totally likes working with the best cancer researchers in the county;
works with state of the art equipment – CSU has the best radiation therapy unit available to humans (the only one of it’s kind available to animals);
and her work at treating cancer in animals is Translational, which means it also works for humans!!!
Dr. LaRue with her state-of-the-art equipment!
It’s amazing what veterinarians can do!!
They work with all kinds of animals, fish (yes fish) exotic animals, bears (like Bart the Bear), our dogs and cats, farm animals, probably even elephants!
They can work in a clinic, vet hospital, at a ranch, at a zoo!
You could make a discovery that helps control the West Nile virus (veterinarians made discoveries that helped control malaria and yellow fever!)!
Veterinarians are responsible for enforcing the laws that ensure humane treatment of animals (that’s very cool)!
She can work in aquatic animal medicine, for the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps, sports medicine, wildlife medicine, and the list goes on!!!!
Girls you could do work that benefits the lives of both animals and humans by becoming a veterinarian!!
Go to the American Veterinary Medical Association’s web site to learn more about what veterinarians do and how to become one!!
http://www.avma.org/animal_health/brochures/veterinarian/veterinarian_brochure.asp
Next posting: Dr. Sue LaRue on raising her two kids and what inspired her!!
