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PULSEPOINTS
Report from the SCVMA Board of Trustees
Observances in the
Month of November
Nov 1 Cook for Your Pets Day
Nov 2 Stress Awareness Day
Nov 5 Donut Day
Nov 6 Nachos Day
Nov 7 Canine Lymphoma
Awareness Day
Nov 8 Stem/Steam Day
Nov 11 Veterans Day
Nov 13 World Kindness Day
Nov 15 Clean Out Your
Refrigerator Day
Nov 17 Take a Hike Day
Nov 20 Absurdity Day
Nov 21 Gingerbread Cookie Day
Nov 23 Espresso Day
Nov 24 Thanksgiving
Nov 25 Black Friday
Nov 26 Small Business Saturday
Nov 28 Cyber Monday
Nov 30 Personal Space Day
The first full week of November is
National Animal Shelter Appreciation
Week
The week before Thanksgiving is
National Hunger and Homeless
Awareness Week
November is also Adopt a Senior Pet
Month, Epilepsy Awareness Month,
National Pet Cancer Awareness
Month, National Gratitude Month,
and November.
meeting of September 28:
Per the DEI action plan, a staff/board training was approved. SCVMA staff and
incoming Board members will be required to complete the AVMA Brave Space
module: Combating Unconscious Bias and Marginalization.
Dr. Hawkins has been busy with media requests. She was interviewed for the LA
Times story " How to Keep Your Pets Cool in this scorching Heat " and had an oncamera
with NBC LA on " How Much Cute Puppies Cost and How to Budget "
There continues to be no leadership for the Southeast Chapter of the SCVMA.
The SCVMA will provide one CE event in late 2022/early 2023 in the SE Chapter
region as a final offering before dissolving the chapter altogether.
The SCVMA Board selected the following winners of the SCVMA Awards:
Ginny Grant: TBA, Phil Steinhauer Award: Elizabeth Goldstone, Veterinary
Team Member Award: Ethel Pawlak, Don Mahan: Dr. Diane Craig, Cortese-Lippincott:
Dr. Ronaldo Vasquez
Dr. Raymond de Villa (region I) and Dr. Georgina Marquez (region II) will be terming
out at the end of 2022. New SCVMA Trustees were approved: Dr. Julio Lopez
will be representing Region I and Dr. Bernadine Cruz will represent Region II.
Your 2023 SCVMA officers are: President- Dr. Megan Nowell; Vice President-Dr.
Adam Gerstein; Treasurer-Dr. Karryssa Fenderson.
The SCVMA website has been updated to include DEI Affinity Groups, the DEI
position statement and action plan. Additionally, affinity partners have been
added under the resources tab.
SCVMA endeavors to increase its social media presence. Posts on upcoming
CE events, pet safety tips, and more can be found on our Facebook and Instagram
pages-please be sure to follow us to keep up to date!
Follow Us!
One of the initiatives of the SCVMA
Board of Trustees is to increase our
social media engagement.
Please follow, like, and share!
Dr. Bernadine Cruz
Dr. Julio Lopez
2023 SCVMA
INCOMING BOARD
OF TRUSTEES
T
he SCVMA received petitions from
two candidates for open Trustee positions.
Dr. Julio Lopez expressed interest
for Region 1, Los Angeles. Dr. Bernadine
Cruz submitted her candidacy for
Region 2, Orange County. Since no other
applications were received, Drs. Lopez
and Cruz will be on the SCVMA Board of
Trustees starting January 1, 2023.
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