{"id":2458,"date":"2018-09-28T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:52:29","slug":"pvm-alumna-mary-beth-leininger-named-germinder20-power-of-pink-honoree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/pvm-alumna-mary-beth-leininger-named-germinder20-power-of-pink-honoree.php","title":{"rendered":"PVM Alumna Mary Beth Leininger Named Germinder20 Power of Pink Honoree"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dr.<\/a>Germinder + Associates<\/a>, a woman-owned marketing communications firm specializing in the pet and veterinary sectors and other niche industries, has named Dr. Mary Beth Leininger (PU DVM \u201967) as a #Germinder20 #PowerofPink Honoree. Using the hashtags #Germinder20 and #PowerofPink, Germinder announced the recognition program in January 2018 as part of the celebration of Germinder\u2019s 20th<\/sup> Anniversary Year.\u00a0 A veterinarian for more than five decades and the first woman president of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), Dr. Leininger is the seventh #Germinder20 #PowerofPink honoree to receive the award.<\/p>\n

The award recipients are given the opportunity to designate a $1,000 donation to be made in their name through Germinder\u2019s 20th<\/sup> Anniversary Fund Giving Back program to a not-for-profit organization of their choice. \u00a0Dr. Leininger designated the student scholarship fund at the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine to receive the $1,000 Germinder Honoree donation.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leininger\u2019s distinguished veterinary career spans more than 50 years and includes service as a private practitioner, volunteer leader, industry executive, and spokesperson for the profession.\u00a0 A 1967 Purdue DVM graduate, she became president of the AVMA in 1996. Germinder and Dr. Leininger first met when Dr. Leininger was AVMA president-elect and Germinder presented, \u201cPets Need Dental Care, Too!\u201d to the AVMA PR Council.\u00a0 \u201cIt is so generous of Lea-Ann to include me as one of her Germinder20 Power of Pink Honorees! I have treasured the many years we have worked together and am grateful to call her my friend,\u201d said Dr. Leininger.<\/p>\n

Germinder + Associates created #Germinder20 #PowerofPink as a women\u2019s storytelling initiative that highlights the founder\u2019s story of breast cancer survivorship and also shines a spotlight on 20 leaders whose stories have touched and inspired Germinder to success. Founded by Lea-Ann O\u2019Hare Germinder, the company connects and consults with executives in both established companies and organizations interested in entering the veterinary and pet industries in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Leininger is beloved by her colleagues, she excels at everything she does, and her love of veterinary medicine knows no bounds. My gratitude to this amazing honoree deepens with every passing year,\u201d Germinder said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leininger spent 28 years in private practice with her husband and fellow Purdue graduate, Dr. Steve Leininger (PU DVM \u201966), as a companion animal practitioner and co-owner of the AAHA accredited Plymouth Veterinary Hospital.\u00a0 From 1999 to 2009, she served as the director of professional affairs for Hill\u2019s Pet Nutrition before assuming the responsibility of project manager for the North American Veterinary Medical Education Consortium (NAVMEC), an initiative of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges.\u00a0 Additionally, Dr. Leininger served in a number of roles with the AVMA, most recently on the Council of Education.\u00a0 She also has been active in leadership roles in the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) and in the Michigan and Southeastern Michigan Veterinary Medical Associations.\u00a0 Last year, Dr. Leininger retired as vice president of veterinary relations for the Hartville Group. She now plans to devote considerable time to volunteerism focused on the student debt issue.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leininger is passionate about continuing to have an impact on students and veterinary education, particularly with the Veterinary Debt Initiative that was the result of the \u201cFix the Debt\u201d Summit in 2016. She believes that student debt is a critical issue that affects the health and happiness of colleagues over their lifetimes and will drive their career opportunities. \u201cWe all can play a part\u2026 each individual veterinarian helping to make a change,\u201d Dr. Leininger said in an interview with Germinder. \u201cI know we can make a difference.\u201d\u00a0 Click here to read the complete interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Germinder + Associates, a woman-owned marketing communications firm specializing in the pet and veterinary sectors and other niche industries, has named Dr. Mary Beth Leininger (PU DVM \u201967) as a #Germinder20 #PowerofPink Honoree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,29],"tags":[107,138,708,711,710,56,712,707],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-our-people","tag-alumni","tag-award","tag-class-of-1967","tag-donation","tag-germinder20","tag-homepage","tag-honoree","tag-mary-beth-leininger"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31790,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/31790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}