Continuing Education
May 10, 2022
Hot Topics in Nutritional Management of Small Animal Internal Medicine Cases
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Michael R. Lappin, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Dr. Lappin graduated from Oklahoma State University and then completed an internship, internal medicine residency, and PhD program in Parasitology at the University of Georgia. His principal areas of interest are prevention of infectious diseases, the upper respiratory disease complex, infectious causes of fever, infectious causes of diarrhea, and zoonoses of cats. Dr. Lappin is the Kenneth W. Smith Professor in Small Animal Clinical Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University and he helps direct the shelter medicine program. . Dr. Lappin is the director of the “Center for Companion Animal Studies” and has received a number of awards including the Norden Distinguished Teaching Award, the European Society of Feline Medicine International Award 2008 for Outstanding Contribution to Feline Medicine, the Winn Feline Research Award in 2009, the ACVIM Robert W. Kirk Award for Professional Excellence in 2014, and the WSAVA Scientific Achievement Award in 2015.