2016 CVM News: College faculty educate and engage at Zoobiquity conference

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The news item is about: Compulsively licking cats; head-bobbing Bulldogs and a Wirehaired Griffon with a phantom-limb. These are just a sampling of the cases discussed by College faculty at the Zoobiquity Neurology and Psychiatry Conference—a one-of-a-kind meeting of animal and human researchers and clinicians co-sponsored by the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine along with New York University Langone Medical Center and the Evolutionary Medicine Program at UCLA. Cornell planning committee members Dr. Alexander Travis, associate dean of international programs and public health, and Gen Meredith, associate director for international programs and MPH, recruited top-level College faculty members to present at the meeting. “Our faculty just have an outstanding reputation in any arena,” says Meredith. “This conference was no different—their presentations were engaging and informative, and really demonstrated the excellence of the work we do at the College.”