Position Title: Clinical Veterinarian - Primate Herd Health
Location: South Texas
About the Role:
Are you a dynamic clinical veterinarian eager to work with non-human primates, primarily rhesus macaques, in an AAALAC-accredited, PHS-assured, and CDC-registered facility? Join our distinguished team of veterinary professionals dedicated to exceptional animal care and welfare. This unique position offers housing support/corporate housing for several months to facilitate your transition.
Why Join Us?
- Engage in a fast-paced environment with a complex species.
- Focus on providing exceptional care without worrying about the cost of medicine or treatments.
- Access opportunities for professional growth and development in a unique branch of veterinary medicine.
- Collaborate with a team of six dedicated DVMs and other veterinary professionals.
- Enjoy a rewarding career with varied responsibilities, from neonatal care to managing a breeding colony.
- Benefit from opportunities for career development and advancement.
- Develop hands-on medicine skills, population herd health management, and contribute to enrichment strategies for the animals.
- Serve as a liaison for behavioral management.
- Participate in NHP Pharmacology studies, including PK and PD, animal disease model development and applications, experimental surgeries, and transplant surgeries.
- Apply animal models for various disease indications, including NASH, diabetes, and ocular conditions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide comprehensive medical and surgical care for laboratory animals, ensuring humane veterinary support.
- Conduct physical, ophthalmic, and other necessary exams on laboratory animals.
- Offer expertise in animal health, biology, physiology, and research methodology to staff scientists and technicians, providing training as needed.
- Assist the site supervisor in ensuring compliance with policies and practices related to animal care and welfare.
- Report and resolve all animal care concerns promptly.
- Participate in the business operations of import, export, and quarantine of an animal supplier.
- Engage in the breeding colony, overseeing primates at various life stages, including neonatal, juvenile, pregnancy, weaning, pairing, and behavioral enrichment.
- Manage a breeding program with 250 breeding females and 150 infants, utilizing females retired from previous primate studies.
- Perform procedures such as C-sections, ultrasounds, nutritional monitoring, dystocia management, and routine health exams for a large population.
- Participate in dosing and sampling through catheterization of the CNS/spinal cord.
Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- Clinical experience (training provided for the right candidate).
- Experience with non-human primates is desirable but not required; however, a desire to work with NHPs is essential.
- Active DEA registration.
- Ability to obtain a Texas DVM license within 30 days of the offer.
- Willingness to work with laboratory animals in a research/laboratory setting.
- Excellent communication skills, a focus on compliance, and a commitment to animal health and welfare.
- Aspiration to study for the Lab Animal Medicine Boards with the facility's support.
Benefits:
- DEA registration reimbursement.
- Continuing education reimbursement.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Health savings account and flexible spending account.
- Veterinary Student Loan Repayment assistance (up to $18,000 a year).
- Matching loan payments up to $1,500 a month.
- Assistance with licensing and relocation.
- Highly competitive salary in a low-cost-of-living area.
If you're passionate about veterinary medicine and looking for a challenging and rewarding role, apply today to join our team and make a difference in the lives of non-human primates and the human medicine they support!
