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H&G Joint Committees
The United States Kerry Blue Terrier Club would like to introduce the USKBTC Health & Genetics Joint Committees.
In order to serve the breed and the members of the parent club in an ever more expanding capacity, the Health & Genetics
Joint Committees has evolved. The intent is to meld the veterinary side of H&G with a "lay" apparatus designed to provide
interface and perform allied services to the veterinary side AND the membership at large. The original definition of the
Health & Genetics committee is unchanged, that of serving the welfare of the breed, however the expansion into a joint
committee system will provide the membership more soldiers in the trenches to field inquiries and provide input back into the
committee.
One of the most important services Health & Genetics Joint Committees will undertake is to identify for USKBTC Charitable
Funds existing research projects we should financially support.
The club encourages Kerry fanciers to feel free to submit suggestions or ideas pertaining to the health of the breed. The
Information Services committee is the natural conduit through which the membership at large can readily communicate. This
joint committee is designed for this purpose and to interface with the other joint committee, Veterinary Advisory.
Your Joint Committees - Their Focus and Responsibilities
USKBTC Health & Genetics Joint Committees
Chair At Large: Scott Kellogg, DVM
The Veterinary Advisory Committee
Scott Kellogg, DVM - Veterinary Advisory Chair
Joy Ellwanger
Terry Worful
Veterinary advisor to H&G: G. Alafuf DVM
Focus and Responsibilities
Focus:
General Health and genetic issues in the Kerry Blue Terrier
Responsibilities:
- Provide such information to the Information Services Committee chairperson as is available concerning health and/or
genetic issues in the Kerry Blue Terrier whenever such information is published or otherwise dispersed.
- Provide updates to the Information Services Committee chairperson in simple form by email, telephone contact or
forwarding of information to lay committee chairperson.
- Represent the USKBTC H&G Committee as liaison between veterinary research teams, colleges of veterinary medicine or other
such veterinary professionals as may be deemed useful to promote and study the health and genetics of the Kerry Blue
Terrier.
The Information Services Committee
Suzanne Wright - Information Services Chair
Lynn Duckett
Victoria Kniering
Nancy Westbrook
Focus:
To provide an interface between the H&G Veterinary Advisory Committee and the membership at large whereby timely dispersal of
health and genetics information may be made available and input received in return from the membership.
Responsibilities:
- Submitting inquiries from the membership to the Veterinary Advisory Committee and reporting answers back to the
membership in the form of published articles, web updates or other.
- Organizing information submitted by the Veterinary Advisory Committee into reports to be published in club newsletters,
websites or other.
- Provide collateral support to the Veterinary Advisory Committee in the form of organizing seminars, clinics, tests or
other.
- Compose and submit for approval to the board of governors H&G surveys or other information gathering tools used to poll
the membership in club newsletters, website or other.
Respectfully submitted,
Susan Dunivant
Last Updated: 03/04/2007, 3:49 pm
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