History
For over a decade, the ASVNU has served to organize veterinarians with a passion for kidney and urinary disease. ASVNU members include veterinarians from many fields, including specialists in internal medicine, critical care, nutrition, anesthesia, interventional radiology/endoscopy, nephropathology, and cardiology as well as those working in industry and other fields. The ASVNU provides opportunities for collaboration, case discussion, and networking among its members. Each year at the ACVIM Forum, the ASVNU sponsors an educational tract, where groundbreaking and advanced lectures are given to help push the standard of care in veterinary nephrology and urology.
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Officers
President
Dr. Carrie Palm DVM, DACVIM
After graduation from the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Palm completed a small animal rotating internship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, followed by a three-year residency in small animal internal medicine. She is Board Certified in Small Animal Internal Medicine.
Dr. Palm practiced as a small animal internist for one year in a specialty practice, Veterinary Medical and Surgical Group in Ventura, CA. She then left private practice and completed a two-year fellowship in nephrology, hemodialysis/extracorporeal medicine and urinary medicine at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. She has since joined the faculty in Clinical Small Animal Internal Medicine at UC Davis. Dr. Palm is interested in all aspects of renal and urinary medicine, but her main focuses are acute kidney injury and ureteral obstructive disease, extracorporeal therapies (including hemodialysis, hemoperfusion and apheresis) and interventional endourology. She also co-manages the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Blood Purification Unit.
Secretary/Treasurer
Dr. Carly Bloom DVM, DACVIM
Dr. Carly Bloom particularly enjoys cases involving the urinary tract, anything from kidneys to bladder stones to incontinence. She also enjoys endocrinology, especially the management of diabetes mellitus in dogs and cats, and performing minimally invasive procedures such as endoscopy and cystoscopy.
President Elect
Dr. Hattie Syme BSc BVetMed PhD FHEA MRCVS D-ACVIM D-ECVIM
Harriet graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1994 and then completed a Junior Clinical Training Scholarship at the RVC. She went on to do a Small Animal Internship and then a Small Animal Medicine Residency at Purdue University in the USA from 1995 to 1999. She studied for a PhD at the RVC from 1999 to 2003. Harriet gained her Diplomate ACVIM in 1999 and her Diplomate ECVIM-CA in 2002.
She was awarded the International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) Award in 2002 for her contribution to the field of veterinary nephrology & urology and the Dame Olga Uvarov award for clinical research in 2008.
past-president
Dr. JD Foster VMD, DACVIM
Dr. Foster graduated from the University of Pennsylvania school of Veterinary Medicine. After spending a year in private practice general medicine, he completed an internship followed by a residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin. After receiving board certification from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, he returned the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine where he served as faculty for four years. During this time he opened an extracorporeal therapies service providing hemodialysis, hemoperfusion, and plasma exchange to canine and feline patients. He is now a staff veterinarian at the Friendship Hospital for Animals in Washington DC. There, he runs the only Extracorporeal Blood Purification service in the entire DC/MD/VA/WVA/DE region, providing hemodialysis, hemoperfusion, plasma exchange, plasma adsorption, and cell collection. His research interests include glomerulonephritis, acute kidney injury, novel usage of extracorporeal blood purification, and biomarkers of renal injury. He has published numerous textbook chapters, peer reviewed research, review articles, and has spoken internationally on many topics within renal and urinary disease.
member at large
Dr. Larry Adams DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Dr. Adams is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in the specialty of Small Animal Internal Medicine. After receiving his DVM from Auburn University in 1984, Dr. Adams completed a small animal internship at the University of Minnesota. Following one year in general small animal practice in Chicago, he returned to the University of Minnesota to complete an internal medicine residency and PhD in veterinary nephrology. Dr. Adams has been on the faculty of Purdue University since 1991 where he is Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine. Dr. Adams clinical research interests include hemodialysis for management of acute kidney injury, extracorporeal therapies for intoxications, minimally invasive interventional urology techniques, and nutritional therapy of urinary tract diseases.
Member at large
Dr. Jessica Quimby DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Dr. Quimby received her veterinary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed a small animal rotating internship in Sacramento, CA. She subsequently spent two years in feline practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan before moving on to Colorado State University for a combined small animal internal medicine residency and PhD program. She completed a PhD focusing on feline CKD in 2012 and was faculty at Colorado State until 2017. Dr. Quimby is now a faculty member at the Ohio State University. Her research continues to focus on chronic kidney disease in cats. Current research areas include the study of renal aging, telomere length and cellular senescence, novel treatment strategies and evidence-based supportive care strategies. She has an interest in clinical trials and feline clinical pharmacology which is aimed at improving supportive care and quality of life in cats with chronic kidney disease.
Member at large
Dr. Allyson Berent DVM, DACVIM
Dr. Berent graduated from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2002. She completed a one year rotating small animal internship at the University of Minnesota. She then completed her internal medicine residency at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Following her residency she did a fellowship in interventional radiology and interventional endoscopy. Her research interests are in minimally invasive diagnostics and therapeutics including: endourology, laser lithotripsy, hepatic and biliary interventions, and intrahepatic portosystemic shunting.
member at large
Dr. Julie Byron DVM, MS, DACVIM
Dr. Byron received her DVM from The Ohio State University in 1998, then completed a rotating internship at VCA West LA Animal Hospital. She completed her residency at The Ohio State University and has been a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine since 2004. She was a faculty member at University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine from 2005 – 2011 before returning to OSU. She is a Professor – Clinical of Internal Medicine with research and clinical interests in lower urinary tract disorders of dogs and cats and kidney disease.