The AASV Student Engagement Committee is pleased to announce the selection of Molly Jones, a second-year veterinary student at North Carolina State University (NCSU), as the incoming alternate student delegate to the AASV Board of Directors.
As described by her faculty advisor, Molly has dedicated her career to gaining considerable experience in swine production. During the academic year, she worked at the NCSU swine farm. During the summer months, she participated in internships in swine production, research, and medicine. Molly presented her research at the 2024 AASV Annual Meeting, and she will do so again during the 2025 AASV Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
During her undergraduate education, Molly was active in the Animal Science Club, where she led the club in multiple officer positions and organized events that connected students with industry professionals. Recognized as a rising star in the NCSU student AASV chapter, she is an active member and the current wet lab coordinator. In her upcoming role, Molly hopes to foster engagement and strengthen connections among veterinary students and the AASV.
Molly will assume her duties as the alternate student delegate during the 2025 AASV Annual Meeting. The current alternate delegate, Mallory Wilhelm (Iowa State University, 2026), will assume the delegate position currently held by Alexis Berte (Iowa State University, 2025), who will rotate off the board. Mallory and Molly will represent student interests within AASV as nonvoting members of the Board of Directors and the Student Engagement Committee. Please join us in welcoming Molly to the AASV Board of Directors and thanking Alexis for her service!
AASV Swine Health Speaker Bank sign up
Are you interested in speaking to veterinary students and pre-veterinary students about swine medicine related topics? Would you be willing to volunteer your time to teach the next generation of veterinarians about what swine veterinarians do?
The AASV Communications Committee is inviting members who are willing and able to accept public speaking engagements on swine health and production topics to become part of a members-only, open-access speaker bank. This initiative is intended to help those seeking swine veterinarian speakers for their events (eg, academic lectures, student events, conferences, etc) to identify and reach out to potential speakers more easily. Members from all disciplines, backgrounds, locations, levels of training, and career stages are welcome to sign up. The list of speakers will be located on the AASV website as a members-only benefit under the student member benefits section (password required to access) and shared with AASV student chapters and faculty contacts at veterinary schools.
Those willing to be listed as potential speakers for various engagements (virtually or in person) are asked to complete a short form at forms.gle/pEX58CTXvqXhDQHV9 to submit their name, contact information, states in which they are willing to speak, presentation languages, and any other preferences or specifics they would like to include in the list.
Please contact Dr Melissa Billing (melissa.billing@boehringer-ingelheim.com) with any questions.
Aspirin and sodium salicylate use in swine – webinar and audio recording available
During the November 20, 2024 Swine Health Information Center and AASV webinar, Dr Locke Karriker, AASV president-elect, provided an update on aspirin and sodium salicylate use in swine from a US regulatory perspective.
Dr Karriker’s presentation can be viewed and the mp3 audio file can be downloaded from aasv.org/advocacy/aspirin/.
Previously, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated that aspirin use was of low regulatory concern. However, due to increased use of aspirin in H5N1-affected dairy cattle, FDA has expressed that this is no longer the case. On October 11, 2024, the FDA issued a “Dear Veterinarian” letter clarifying that there are no FDA-approved aspirin products for use in cattle or other livestock. The extra-label use of unapproved drugs in food-producing species is prohibited.
In his presentation, Dr Karriker describes how this announcement affects swine and the pathways to legal use of drugs in swine. There is no legal pathway to use aspirin, acetylsalicylic acid, or sodium salicylate in swine.
Under the Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act (AMDUCA), veterinarians may use only FDA-approved human or animal drugs in food-producing species under specific conditions in an extra-label manner. The extra-label use of unapproved drugs in food-producing species is prohibited.
All FDA-approved animal products are required to carry one of the following statements on the label: “Approved by FDA under NADA # XXX-XXX” for brand name animal drugs or “Approved by FDA under ANADA # XXX-XXX” for generic animal drugs.
For more information, visit aasv.org/advocacy/aspirin/.
H5N1 influenza risk to US swine – webinar recording available
The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC), in collaboration with the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, hosted a webinar on H5N1 influenza risk to US swine on November 20, 2024. The goal of the webinar was to provide current information on H5N1 in livestock, including updates on the H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle, the first detection of H5N1 in a pig on a small backyard farm in Oregon, research on H5N1 in swine, and a literature review covering gaps in knowledge for H5N1.
The webinar can be accessed at aasv.org/video/shic-webinars/.
Webinars sponsored by SHIC and AASV bring together subject matter experts to discuss current issues facing US pork producers and practitioners. Conducted by the Iowa State University Swine Medicine Education Center, webinar participants include practitioners with first-hand experience with the topic being discussed, diagnosticians, and other experts. Recorded webinars from 2019 through 2024 are available in the video library.
Do you have a recommendation for a topic to be addressed in this format? SHIC and AASV would like your input! Reach out to SHIC Executive Director Dr Megan Niederwerder at mniederwerder@swinehealth.org or AASV Director of Public Health and Communications Dr Abbey Canon at canon@aasv.org with your webinar recommendations.
AASV meeting proceedings available online
The proceedings of the AASV Annual Meeting continue to be a valued benefit for AASV members. All AASV members may access ALL of the conference papers, including those for the preconference seminars, regardless of whether they attend the meeting.
The papers for the 2025 AASV Annual Meeting – more than 230 – are now available for members to access at aasv.org/proceedings/.
Current (2025) dues-paid membership and an updated password for AASV’s new website are required to access the files.
As in the past, the papers are available as follows:
- The “big book” of all the regular session papers in a single PDF file with a linked table of contents
- Seminar booklets: a PDF collection of papers for each preconference seminar
- A PDF file for each individual presentation is available in the Swine Information Library: aasv.org/swine-information/