The AASV Student Recruitment Committee is pleased to announce the selection of Jamie Madigan (NCSU, 2021) as the incoming Alternate Student Delegate to the AASV Board of Directors.
Madigan’s passion for swine medicine started during high school while she was working on a grow-finish farm. "I enjoyed walking the barn, and working directly with the pigs, from cleaning feeders to vaccinations," Madigan recalls. A PRRSv outbreak piqued her interest in swine health and prompted her to contact Dr. Billy Flowers at North Carolina State University (NCSU). This led to a job at the NCSU swine unit where she learned about treatment options and how proper daily management and nutrition, could play a key role in the health of each pig. These experiences solidified her desire to become a swine veterinarian.
She was selected as the Swine Scholar in the Food Animal Scholars program at NCSU. This meant that Madigan had secured a seat at the NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine that would allow her to follow her dream to become a swine veterinarian. Prior to entering the College of Veterinary Medicine, she took advantage of an opportunity to work with Smithfield Hog Production under Dr. Jeremy Pittman. Working with Dr. Pittman afforded her the opportunity to routinely visit farms, conduct research projects and work side-by-side with veterinarians, contract producers, farm managers and employees – providing a wealth of practical experience.
During her first year at the NCSU CVM, Madigan developed the first food animal speed-networking event at NCSU called Building Bridges. The event allowed a group of food animal veterinarians an opportunity to meet with students to discuss their career, give advice and simply interact with future veterinarians. She hopes this will become an annual event.
Following Madigan’s first year of veterinary school, she had the pleasure of working with Dr. Joshua Duff at Goldsboro Milling, Co. through the Swine Veterinary Internship Program. While working with him, she gained additional clinical skills and conducted a vaccination protocol comparison trial, which will be presented during the poster session at AASV.
Upon graduation, Madigan hopes to enter practice and continue to work with AASV to help contribute to the continued connection of swine-interested veterinary students with mentors that will help cultivate their passion for this profession.
Madigan assumes her duties as Alternate Student Delegate during the 2019 AASV Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL. The current alternate delegate, Jonathan Tubbs (Auburn, 2020), will assume the delegate position currently held by Jordan Gebhardt (Kansas State University, 2019) who will rotate off the board. Jonathan and Jamie will represent student interests within AASV as non-voting members of the Board of Directors and the Student Recruitment Committee. Please join us in welcoming Jamie to the AASV Board of Directors and thanking Jordan for his service!