The 2-year program’s broad objective is to prepare participants for successful careers as laboratory animal medicine and science specialists in academia, industry, or government. Specifically, the training program objectives are to prepare participants to successfully: 1) Prevent, control, diagnose and treat diseases of laboratory animals 2) Manage laboratory animal resources, including conventional, barrier, agricultural, and high-level containment facilities 3) Provide expertise on the fundamentals of animal experimentation to researchers 4) Provide expertise on the regulations framing laboratory animal research to an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee 5) Conduct independent and/or collaborative research 6) Acquire the base of information and credentials required to become certified by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine

Steven Holloway holloway@uga.edu