{"id":10140,"date":"2020-10-22T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:27:53","slug":"veterinary-organizations-take-diversity-and-equity-related-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/veterinary-organizations-take-diversity-and-equity-related-action.php","title":{"rendered":"Veterinary organizations take diversity- and equity-related action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-11-01-story-01a.jpg\" alt=\"A virtual meeting display featuring five individuals in a grid format, each engaged in a discussion.\" class=\"wp-image-10141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-11-01-story-01a.jpg 760w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-11-01-story-01a-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-11-01-story-01a-419x235.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banfield Pet Hospital focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion during its virtual Pet Healthcare Industry Summit, Sept. 14-15. Participants included (clockwise from top left) Melissa Marshall, Banfield\u2019s senior vice president of people and organization; Dr. Ruby Perry, dean of Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Willie Reed, dean of Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine; Lisa Greenhill, EdD, senior director for institutional research and diversity at the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges; and Dr. Courtney Campbell, a veterinary surgeon and host of the veterinary news show \u201cVet Candy Watch\u201d and the podcast \u201cAnything is Pawsible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avma.org\/javma-news\/2020-11-01\/veterinary-organizations-take-diversity-and-equity-related-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more at JAVMA News!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banfield Pet Hospital focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion during its virtual Pet Healthcare Industry Summit, Sept. 14-15. Participants included (clockwise from top left) Melissa Marshall, Banfield\u2019s senior vice president of people and organization; Dr. Ruby Perry, dean of Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Willie Reed, dean of Purdue University College of Veterinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1174,41,17,28,29],"tags":[912,103],"class_list":["post-10140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity","category-faculty-staff","category-in-the-news","category-our-impact","category-our-people","tag-diversity-and-inclusion","tag-willie-reed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34669,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions\/34669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}