Sunrise Veterinary Service PLLC

09/19/2024

“What is the ratio of caretakers to eligible cows calving during this month? This week? Day? By shift?”

My cousin is a registered nurse working in a medical center for women and children, and her specialty is supporting labor, delivery, NICU, and infant care.

We had the coolest heart to heart at a family wedding over the weekend about how similar and challenging our industries are. Particularly the idea about how shifts are managed and how that impacts patient support.

Making sure that new moms and newborn babies get the care they need.

Something I love about being a veterinarian is having the opportunity to share what I get to observe and what I learn every day.

Working in a dairy maternity area is one of the most difficult areas on farm as multiple points that need attention are all happening simultaneously. Continuously.

Very much looking forward to sharing real world tips, ideas, and research to support improved care for both bovines and the humans caring for them at the Dairy Nutrition and Management Consulting, LLC Dairy Summit in Vail, Colorado next month!

For more information, check out www.dairysummit.com.

08/30/2024

Alexis Thompson, you and your team’s efforts supporting all of us (fellow colleagues and our clients) = incredible.

So many supportive emails. Texts. Questions answered or answers sought. Working on tight timelines. Improving testing capabilities. Offering solutions. Gathering feedback. From the practicing vet view, your service as a diagnostician is a pillar of our community.

We appreciate you, are so glad you call the Panhandle home with all of us, and most important news, big congratulations on this well deserved promotion! 🐄❤️

Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Lab (TVMDL)

The Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, TVMDL, has named Alexis Thompson, DVM, Ph.D., DACVPM, as resident director at the Charles W. “Doc” Graham ‘53 DVM laboratory in Canyon. She will begin her new role Sept. 1. As resident director, Thompson will oversee all aspects of the la...

08/09/2024

Teamwork makes the dream work!

So proud to have shared lessons learned today on in cattle and what it means for our industry at the ACADEMY OF VETERINARY CONSULTANTS INC summer meeting.

Alexis Thompson, DVM, PhD, DACVPM Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Lab (TVMDL)
Drew Magstadt, Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Yuko Sato Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Barb Petersen, DVM, MBA Sunrise Veterinary Service PLLC (Texas)

07/19/2024

📣Attention veterinarians and vet students!

📆 Mark your calendars and register for the summer Academy of Dairy Veterinarians virtual meeting on Monday, August 5, 2024 at 7 PM CST for an update on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.

🌪️ Featuring Drs. Pat Gorden, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine; Drew Magstadt, Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, and Barb Petersen, Sunrise Veterinary Service PLLC.

💰 The fee for this webinar is $35, FREE for current veterinary students.

Visit www.academyofdairyveterinaryconsultants.org for more information and to get signed up.

07/04/2024

Feliz dia de independencia 🇺🇸 a todos mis compas y compañeros agriculturas hoy!

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸 to all my friends and colleagues in agriculture, out and about doing our thing today!

“And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free” Lee Greenwood

05/17/2024

Paying it forward: Dr. Sam Barringer + Dr. Sarah Depenbrock are incredible colleagues, veterinarians, and philanthropists through additional scholarship funds for livestock students. 🐄🎓 👏🏻

Dr. Sam Barringer (DVM ’91) was named the 2023 Consultant of the Year by the Academy of Veterinary Consultants (AVC), a national organization of livestock practitioners who provide high quality continuing education on topics related to livestock health.

05/03/2024

This eye photo is for all who said “It’s just a little pinkeye”.

Please help spread the word about eyes like these in humans working with cattle. These clinical signs, along with flu like symptoms, have been seen in Texas in humans on dairies at the same time cows were sick.

This image should be hanging in every human medical clinic + eye doctor in counties with dairy farms, feedlots, calf ranches, and slaughterhouses, with the specific request to BOLO and ask about history/interaction with animals.

Cherissa Abdul-Hamid, DVM, MPH, our veterinary hero on the human health zoonotic team at the Texas Department of State Health Services, has demonstrated hours and weeks of grit, determination, and the most solid communication we could ask for after mobilizing to support testing and treatment once field based cattle veterinarians reported sick humans to the Texas state veterinarian the third week in March of this year. Congratulations on this publication and thank you all your continued efforts.

We must care for people who care for cows.

Animal health = human health = one health.

A highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection was identified in a dairy farm worker in Texas. This pathogen has been reported in multiple dairy herds in several states.

04/29/2024

Only with the help of incredible friends, colleagues, and the real eyes on farm = the guys and gals caring for the special needs cows, heifers and calves could we solve this puzzle.

Solamente con la ayuda de increíbles amigos, colegas veterinarios y los ojos verdaderos de la lecheria = los hombres y mujeres que cuidan de las vacas, vaquillas y becerras del hospital y enfermos, pudimos resolver este rompecabezas.

🐄♥️💪🇺🇸🇲🇽🇬🇹

04/26/2024

Veterinarians in cattle clinical practice want to continue to help with H5N1 (avian influenza) epidemiology.

There are not many of us in day to day, examining cows, clinical style of veterinary practice, but we will persist and perservere.

Our dairy farm clients have been willing to participate in letting us take samples to help us reach the initial diagnosis. We have a lot more work to do, and we are more than willing to continue to do so.

Dairy farmers and veterinarians need a framework to do so that includes the real world, boots on the ground perspective, which would include performing surveillance on live cattle and their products, including milk processing and beef at slaughter. This means multiple agency coordination as well as including people that can provide feasibility feedback.

At the end of the day, dairy farmers, veterinarians, and agencies all want the same thing: healthy cows, healthy people and healthy food.

Genetic evidence suggests cattle infections with H5N1 began in the fall of 2023 and may occur far more widely than has been reported

04/18/2024

There have been so many veterinarians collaborating to care for our sick cows, and seek answers + solutions during the last two months.

Huge amounts of gratitude to Drs. Dickerson, Texeira, Schneider, Russo, Thompson, Magstadt, Burrough, and the wonderful teams at TVMDL-Canyon and the ISU VDL, as well as so many other boots on the ground vet colleagues in Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas.

We can’t accept that HPAI could happen every spring or every bird migration. We will continue to learn more, prepare, plan, prevent and protect.

Bird flu was thought to be an implausible cause of a mysterious dairy cattle sickness in Texas. Then the cats started dying.

04/05/2024

Colleague and friend Dr. Kay Russo is going to be sharing key insights tomorrow on HPAI impacting our dairy farms.

Please register and join.

https://lnkd.in/duDcig3Y



https://webinar.chr-hansen.com/managing-novel-disease-introduction

Recently a strain of Avian Influenza has been identified in a novel species – dairy cattle. While Influenza viruses possess the ability to leap from one...

03/09/2024

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. (Arthur Ashe 🎾)

The last few weeks have been beyond intense around here.

Wild fires raged in and all around our communities.

The temperature swung 60+ degrees F multiple times, and we found ourselves managing 80 degrees F, wind, and snow in subsequent days.

Families and friends that I love have been pushed to their limits physically, mentally, emotionally.

I will say this over and over again.

There is no match for humans of agriculture, and volunteers. ♥️

Our volunteer and full time fire departments are the real heroes. 🚒

Those out in the real world with their boots on every day are the real heroes. 🥾

The humans of agriculture that have responded with care, compassion, equipment, and medicine are heroes. 🌾

The groups that put together food packages for children are the real heroes. 🥣

To volunteer or donate to a great organization, check out Snack Pak 4 Kids.

We packed 4500 bags with 100+ sets of helping hands in under an hour this week.

03/05/2024

02/28/2024

MJE

02/16/2024

Happy Anniversary Dr. Joe and Dr. Carol!! ♥️♥️

We would like to congratulate Dr. Carol and Dr. Joe Hillhouse on their 40th wedding anniversary! They have been working tirelessly over the past several years to provide excellent veterinary care for the people and pets of the Texas panhandle. Thank you and enjoy your much deserved celebration! 🍾

02/14/2024

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Congratulations to Class 13 for completing Phase I of the Young Dairy Leaders Institute a couple of weeks ago in Tampa, Florida.

We just know this group of inspiring dairy leaders will go on to create positive change and lasting contributions to the dairy industry!

If you see a Class 13 member, ask them about their Phase II projects.

02/01/2024

Lucky to attend this leadership conference AND reconnect with a Hilmar Cheese Dalhart summer internship alumni!