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Avian Medicine Club at KSU College of Veterinary Medicine, Zeandale, KS (2024)

04/03/2023

Some pictures from our AMC x wet lab last week and from Open House on Saturday! We had a great week and can’t wait for our meeting tomorrow!

03/10/2023

We’re still smiling after our avian handling lab with !! So thankful for such an incredible experience and teacher! And of course, we couldn’t be more appreciative of the star of the show, Max the African Grey, who made sure to share all his good sides with the camera 🤩

02/26/2023

a HUGE thank you to Dr. Kyle Abbott at for giving us a fantastic presentation on avian cases this last Thursday! we are so appreciative and had so much fun learning from you! (also a big thank you to Dr. Lyon for being our photographer 📸😄)

12/01/2022

Introducing our 2022-2023 officers ⭐️ last, but definitely not least, our treasurer, Katherine!

Katherine is in the class of 2025 and is interested in exotic and wildlife practice!

“Hi! My name is Katherine V. Meléndez Santiago and I am from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. I went for my undergraduate to the University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, where I obtained my bachelor’s degree in biotechnology. I joined the Avian Medicine Club because I am interested in working with exotic/wildlife animals in the future. I have worked with birds species before at my clinic, but I look forward to learn so much more with all of the members.”

11/07/2022

Introducing our 2022-2023 officers ⭐️ Our social media chair, Natalie Walters!

Natalie is in the class of 2025 and is interested in exotic companion animals and small animal practice!

“I’m from Overland Park, Kansas. I went to K-State for undergrad where I studied animal science, pre-vet option. During my undergrad, I volunteered at Sunset Zoo here in Manhattan and that’s where I really became interested in avian medicine- through working with the birds there! I’m so excited for the rest of the year and can’t wait to get to know the club members better!”

11/03/2022

Introducing our 2022-2023 officers ⭐️ Meet Ashley Meisel, our wet lab coordinator!

Ashley is in the class of 2025 and i interested in zoological/wildlife medicine!

“I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I went to Penn State University for undergraduate where I completed my veterinary and biomedical sciences major and Spanish minor. I have a dog named Toby back home in Pennsylvania, and I love working with all kinds of animals. I joined the Avian Medicine Club because I worked with a lot of birds during my undergraduate schooling and over my summers and I really wanted to be able to learn more about them and keep working with them!”

10/19/2022

Introducing our 2022-2023 officers ⭐️ next up we have Danielle Liesenfeld, our fundraising chair!

Danielle is in the class of 2025 and is interested in exotics and wildlife!

“Hi everyone!! My name is Danielle Liesenfeld and I’m from St. Louis, MO. I did my undergrad at Mizzou and have been working at a small animal/exotics clinic since I graduated in 2019. I love anything to do with exotics and wildlife which is why I joined Avian Club!”

10/16/2022

Introducing our 2022-2023 officers ⭐️ up next- our VP, Greta Karwath!

Greta is in the class of 2026 and is interested in private practice exotics or emergency medicine. She wants to become board certified in avian medicine!

“I am from Carmel IN and completed my bachelor's of science degree in Biology at Hanover College in Hanover, IN. I moved out here with my umbrella cockatoo and enjoy teaching her tricks in my past time. I am really excited to be a part of AMC to share my passion of birds with others!”

10/13/2022

Introducing our 2022-2023 officers ⭐️ starting with our lovely president, Rachel Kuehl!

Rachel is in the class of 2024 and is interested in zoo medicine!

“I’m from Portland, Oregon! I got my undergraduate degree in Biology at Portland State University before taking a couple of years to gain more experience as a vet tech in a mixed small animal / exotics practice, then worked as a lab animal technician while volunteering at the Oregon Zoo before applying to KSU CVM 💜 I joined AMC during my first year because I knew NOTHING about birds at the time, but knew that I would be working with birds in the future. Through wildlife / zoo externships over the last two years I’ve gained a lot more confidence with birds… but there is still SO MUCH more to learn!”

09/12/2022

Path & Research Club and Avian Medicine Club are having a joint meeting about Urban Wildlife Health over pizza this Wednesday (9/14) at 5:30 in the BI Auditorium! Make sure to sign up for the meeting BY 9/13 @ 12PM! Meeting is free for members of both clubs, non-members should Venmo $2 to -Lloyd-1 (AMC) or -Paranjpe-1 (Path). See you there🦉

09/12/2022

Thank you to everyone who came out for our first meeting of the year, as well as to Dr. Carpenter and Dr. Gardhouse for designing the trivia questions! Hope you all had fun and learned some new cool bird trivia! :)🦅🦜🦆🕊🦢🐥

09/08/2022

The AMC will be hosting our Avian Trivia Night TONIGHT at 5:30pm in Mosier E-107. Come learn about birds and show off your fancy knowledge!

To make this event even better, we will be providing dinner for AMC members. You can sign up to be a member at the meeting. If you’ve read this far and still aren’t convinced, we are even having the trivia night co-hosted by our club advisors, Dr. James Carpenter and Dr. Sara Gardhouse! If you haven’t met them yet, they are the CVM’s exotics and zoo med teaching faculty and clinicians (and are tons of fun and are coming loaded with tons of bird facts).

Aside from a fun night of trivia with the CVM’s Exotics Experts, we will be introducing the AMC’s semester plans and opening nominations for the officer board elections. This a fun, yet important meeting – be sure you’re there!

PM us for details to sign up and if you haven’t, don’t fret! You’re still welcome to join in the bird fun (just bring your own meal. See you there!

08/29/2022

Welcome to KSUCVM to the class of 2026 and for our current (and soon-to-be) members, stay tuned for an action packed semester! 😉

04/19/2022

Thank you to Dr. Veronica Pardini from Broward Avian and Exotic Animal Hospital for talking about your journey from Brazil to America and for walking us through some of your exotics cases! Dr. Carpenter was also presented with an award for being the founding advisor for Avian Club and guiding us through the past two years!

04/18/2022

We are teaming up with LVMA at K-State for our last meeting of the year!

We have a very special guest joining us – Dr. Veronica Pardini will be presenting on her journey as a veterinarian from Brazil coming to the USA AND on some of her most interesting exotic medicine cases! Dr. Pardini will be joining us via zoom from South Florida – but dinner will be provided for those who wish to join us in T301 for the meeting.

Dr. Pardini is an associate veterinarian at Broward Avian and Exotic Animal Hospital and is working towards becoming an ACZM diplomate. She has been featured on National Geographic’s show “Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER” and loves working with student externs (all years welcome to apply). Dr. Pardini was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil where she graduated from veterinary school in 2012. She has since worked with many zoos in the USA and is a certified aquatic veterinarian (CertAqV) through the World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association. She is also a current volunteer veterinarian at Zoo Miami. She was also recently featured on the Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV) podcast: Docs of a Feather.

See you there!

04/18/2022

We are teaming up with LVMA for our last meeting of the year!

We have a very special guest joining us – Dr. Veronica Pardini will be presenting on her journey as a veterinarian from Brazil coming to the USA AND on some of her most interesting exotic medicine cases! Dr. Pardini will be joining us via zoom from South Florida – but dinner will be provided for those who wish to join us in T301 for the meeting.

Dr. Pardini is an associate veterinarian at Broward Avian and Exotic Animal Hospital and is working towards becoming an ACZM diplomate. She has been featured on National Geographic’s show “Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER” and loves working with student externs (all years welcome to apply). Dr. Pardini was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil where she graduated from veterinary school in 2012. She has since worked with many zoos in the USA and is a certified aquatic veterinarian (CertAqV) through the World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association. She is also a current volunteer veterinarian at Zoo Miami. She was also recently featured on the Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV) podcast: Docs of a Feather.

See you there!!!

04/10/2022

AMC’s first (in-person) Open House event and it was a SMASH! Thank you to the community and everyone that visited our booth. Special thanks to for cohosting an awesome exotics corner with us. Some of our highlights:
- Meet Your Match: Which species laid which egg?: raffle
- Incubation station: silkie chicken eggs
- Bone Zone: skeletal samples from a wide variety of species
- X-Ray Delay: Can you find the problem in these radiographs?

03/31/2022

Thank you to Dr. Sara Gardhouse for the amazing talk on highly pathogenic avian influenza at our last meeting! For those who don't know, avian influenza has been identified in Kansas. Please visit the link below for more information on this extremely contagious and deadly disease, as well as how to protect your pet birds! https://www.agriculture.ks.gov/divisions-programs/division-of-animal-health/animal-diseases/avian-influenza

12/09/2021

Check your mailboxes today if you ordered personalized pet holiday ornaments! Thank you for contributing to the Avian Medicine Club! All funds will be used for exciting lectures and wet labs in the coming semesters. Stay tuned!

11/29/2021

Don’t forget to come to our avian necropsy lab tomorrow night!

09/27/2021

Come to our 2nd meeting this Thursday (9/30) in T301!

09/24/2021

Avian Medicine Club had its first wet lab today on psitticine handling! Students practiced holding birds ranging from budgies to African greys, giving subcutaneous fluids, and finding the jugular vein for blood draws. Many thanks to our wet lab coordinator Rachel Lemont, Dr. Julie Burge, and all who attended!🦜

09/13/2021

Monday Medical Quiz!

A 4 week old chicken presents with unilateral leg paralysis, and her legs are splayed. Upon physical examination you notice it has swollen bumps on its skin, which you realize must be feather follicles, as well as some crusty scabs. You also notice labored breathing and that the bird has a blue-gray colored iris. The owner reports that the bird has had diarrhea and has lost weight, and that other birds in her flock have had similar symptoms.

What do you think is wrong with this chicken? Enter your response in the comments below.

09/07/2021

We would like to give a big thank you to everyone who attended our first meeting: Avian Trivia Night!
Pictured are: Our club advisor, Dr. Carpenter, with AMC’s president and founder, Bairon Madrigal (Class of 2023). Also the rest of the current eboard for 2021-2022!

08/30/2021

Our first AMC meeting will be an Trivia Night on all things avian, hosted by our very own Dr. Carpenter!
9/2 at 5:30pm in BI Auditorium, food will be provided. Hope to see you guys then, and thank you for following the Avian Medicine Club!

03/26/2021

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03/16/2021

Feeling a little wild today? Check out our lunch meeting on “Saving Africa’s Vultures” with Vulpro’s Caroline Hannweg. See you in person at T301 or via zoom (DM us for the link)!

03/01/2021

Join us TODAY for our joint meeting with the Therio Club in the Bi auditorium at 6:30pm on “Avian Reproduction”!

C.J. graduated with his master’s degree in Poultry and Gamebird Management and Nutrition from Kansas State University in December 2020. He has over 8 years of experience in commercial poultry production with 5 of those years focused on poultry research in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry. During his time as manager of the Poultry Research Unit at Kansas State, C.J. helped develop the facility and program for conducting gamebird research at KSU. C.J.’s research focused on feather quality and nutrition of raising commercially grown pheasants in the state. Looking into the future, he plans to continue working in the field of commercial poultry production and research.

02/08/2021

Happy Monday! We’re kicking your week off with one of the biggest names in veterinary medicine (and we’re fortunate to have him as the founding faculty advisor for the Avian Medicine Club)! He has given his time, knowledge, and passion to help bring the AMC to K-State!

“James W. Carpenter, MS, DVM, Dipl. ACZM, is a Professor of Zoological Medicine at Kansas State University. He established the program in zoological/exotic animal medicine at KSU in 1990, which has now trained 43 interns and residents and thousands of veterinary students. He is the Co-editor of Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery (2004; 2012; 2021) and Editor of the Exotic Animal Formulary (1996, 2001, 2005, 2013, 2018). Dr. Carpenter is the Past-President of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, the Association of Avian Veterinarians, and the American College of Zoological Medicine. He was named the Exotic DVM of the Year for 2000, the T.J. Lafeber Avian Practitioner of the Year for 2012, and the Oxbow Exotic Mammal Health Award recipient for 2019. In 2013, the Veterinary Health Center named the new veterinary facility at Manhattan’s Sunset Zoo the “James W. Carpenter Clinic at Sunset Zoo”. Dr. Carpenter is also the former Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine and the Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery (for 26 years).”

02/05/2021

Kicking off your Friday with our last AMC officer board introduction to your wet-lab coordinator:

“My name is Sarah and I am a first-year student from Dubuque, Iowa! I grew up with birds, turtles, hamsters, fish, dogs, cats, and horses so I’ll be looking forward to studying the mixed animal track! I am interested in exotic animal medicine and hope to pursue a residency in zoo medicine. I am pretty adventurous and would love to live in South Africa some day! I became involved with AMC because I love how diverse bird species are and wanted to learn more! My favorite birds are hyacinth macaws and flamingos.”

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