Animal Health Veterinarian
900 Ridgebury Rd Ridgefield, CT 06877 US
Job Description
- Provides veterinary medical and surgical care to laboratory animals.
- Daily interactions providing service to Research & Development and Manufacturing & Quality departments.
- Duties are daily (5 days a week) during normal business hours or Part-time to include some weekends providing clinical laboratory animal medicine, IACUC protocol development, minimal study support, animal user training and verification, and colony preventive medicine.
- Weekend “on call” duty where a veterinarian may be called to provide advice on veterinary care, and may on some occasions, provide onsite direct animal care.
- Identifies gaps and develops and implements animal care and use guidelines.
- Conducts procedures and documents performance of effective veterinary preventive medicine program for animal colony.
- Proactively provides uninterrupted veterinary medical and surgical support functions to AAALAC and GLP standards; responds to IACUC concerns in a timely and professional manner.
- Functions as a resource and technical leader to the IACUC, principal investigators and study directors.
- Mentors junior staff; participates in training.
Skills:
- Certification/License: DVM/VMD, ACLAM certification
- Licensed in a state in US (State of CT a plus)
- Board certified in the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM).
- Experience in a research animal facility, pharmaceutical environment (toxicology) a plus.
- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM or VMD)
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