Board of Directors
Officers
Clark Fobian, DVM, Chair, attended the University of Missouri-Columbia, earning his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree in 1977. Dr. Fobian owns and operates the Thompson Hills Animal Clinic in Sedalia, Missouri. He is a district deputy of the University of Missouri Alumni Association. From 1972 to 1978, he served in the U.S. Army Reserve as a medic for the 5503rd Army Hospital. Dr. Fobian has served as the Missouri VMA president and chairman of the board. He has been an active member of various committees at the MVMA In January of 2006, the Missouri VMA named Dr. Fobian Veterinarian of the Year. Dr. Fobian is an active member of the First United Methodist Church, and is a volunteer at the Katy Trail Department of Natural Resources.
Richard P. Streett, Jr., VMD, Vice Chair, is the Founder of Churchville Veterinary Clinic and has been the practicing veterinarian there since 1971. Dr. Streett is a member of the AVMA HOD from Maryland since 2005. He is on the Executive Board, and has served as Chair, of the Maryland VMA. His business experience includes Principal of The Spenceola Group, Village Square Office and Retail Complex and managing partner of the Spenceola Antique Center. Dr. Streett is a member of the Board of Directors of several community groups including Upper Chesapeake Health, both Systems and Foundation. Richard Streett earned his VMD at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Veterinary Medicine in 1969.
George W. Bishop, DVM, Treasurer, was born and raised on a dairy and hog farm in central Ohio. He received his veterinary medical degree from Ohio State University, and has spent his career as a small animal practitioner. He has a long, distinguished, and continuing record of service to organized veterinary medicine, and has been the recipient of many special recognitions and awards for his service and accomplishments. He is currently serving as California delegate to the AVMA House of Delegates. He became a member of the AVMF Board of Directors in 2005.
V. Hugh "Chip" Price, Jr., DVM, Secretary, received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 1969. In 1980, he received his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge. Dr. Price served in the U.S. Navy from 1970 to 1974, when he was honorably discharged. His military career continued as he served in the U.S. Army Reserve, 141st Med Det (VC), in Columbia, Mo., from 1982-1984. From 1984 to 2007, Dr. Price served in the U.S. Reserve as a Laboratory Animal Veterinary Officer at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Chemical Defense at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Dr. Price is Director of Animal Resources at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center at Shreveport, where he is also Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Professor of Emergency Medicine.
Anna M. van Heeckeren, DVM, MS, Immediate Past Chair, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1987 and went on to receive her Master's degree in molecular genetics in 1989 and veterinary degree in 1993 from The Ohio State University. Dr. van Heeckeren specializes in cystic fibrosis research and holds positions as Senior Research Associate and Animal Core Co-Director at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. van Heeckeren is involved in many philanthropic endeavors including actively participating on the AVMF Board of Directors and the College of Laboratory Animal Medicine Foundation. In addition, Dr. van Heeckeren is a member of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science and the American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners, and has published over 16 research articles.
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