Last updated on May 23, 2010

ACLAM

List of current officers

Standing committees 2010

Dr. Melvin W. Balk, Executive Director
96 Chester Street
Chester, NH 03036
Phone: 603-887-2467 Office
Fax: 603-887-0096 FAX
E-Mail: mwbaclam@gsinet.net

Mission statement

Position papers

    Adequate Veterinary Care

    Animal Experimentation (PDF file)

    Animal Use in Research, Testing and Teaching

    Assessment and Management of Pain in Rodents and Rabbits (PDF file)

    Pain and Distress

    Rodent Surgery

    Training & Education In the Care & Use of Laboratory Animals

    The 3 R's

    Value of AAALAC Accreditation

    Veterinary Medical Records (PDF from ILAR J 48(1), 2007)

The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) was founded in 1957 to encourage education, training and research in laboratory animal medicine; to establish standards of training and experience for veterinarians professionally concerned with the care and health of laboratory animals; and to recognize qualified persons in laboratory animal medicine by certification examination and other means. The College was chartered on February 18, 1957, and is incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois as a not-for-profit organization. It is a specialty board recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association.

The College was originally established as the American Board of Laboratory Animal Medicine by 18 "charter Fellows" who had made significant contributions to laboratory animal medicine and were actively engaged in the specialty. The name of the organization was changed to its present form on August 24, 1961, and the term "Fellow" was discontinued in favor of "Diplomate." The College has grown steadily and its active membership now [information updated May 2010] numbers over 700 Diplomates. The testing and certification of qualified veterinarians in this specialty continues to have the highest priority. Educational programs of the College also receive strong emphasis to appraise the membership and the scientific community of advances in laboratory animal medicine.

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ECLAM

Examination Committee:

Greg Whelan - UK (Chair): GSK Harlow; has published articles on anaesthesia (Pubmed ID 10759388 , 1999) and stroke (Pubmed ID 14688614, 2004) in marmosets
Franz-Josef Kaup - Germany:Department of Anatomy and Embryology Medical Faculty Göttingen University. Interests include SIV in macaques, immunology, transplantation, and has published on an outbreak of Strep equi in rhesus as well as 121 other articles.
Hilton Klein - USA (Merck): broad range of publications including rodents and primates; most recently an outbreak of Helicobacter pullorum in barrier mice (PMID 20220161, 2010), H. macacae (PMID 17928421, 2007)
David Morton - UK: welfare, emeritus professor of biomedical science and ethics at Univ. Birmingham
Stefan Niewiesk – Ohio State; cotton rats, respiratory diseases including measles; studied at Hannover
Pedro-José Otaegui Goya - Spain; molecular biology and pharmacokinetics of pain including cannabinoids
Jan Ottesen - Denmark; effect of tail amputation and tattooing in mice (PMID 17234047, 2007); before that worked on meiosis and reproduction, but not a lengthy publication history.
Patri Vergara - Spain. GI motility in rats (PMID 20426801, 2010), mating in chickens; co-author of chapter in Jan Hau's Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, vol I, on lab animal organizations
Trevor Waner - Israel
Hans Hedrich - Germany (Council liaison)

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