{"id":25821,"date":"2023-08-16T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/?p=25821"},"modified":"2023-08-16T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:08:21","slug":"urar-welcomes-new-clinical-assistant-professor-in-laboratory-animal-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/urar-welcomes-new-clinical-assistant-professor-in-laboratory-animal-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"URAR welcomes new clinical assistant professor in Laboratory Animal Medicine\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The University Research Animal Resources<\/a> team is excited to welcome Gianni Campellone as the new clinical assistant professor in the Laboratory Animal Medicine program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campellone always wanted to work with animals and pursued a degree in zoology before deciding to go into veterinary medicine. After initially getting rejected from veterinary school, however, he began to pursue a master\u2019s degree in laboratory animal medicine. Even once he was accepted into the veterinary program at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, he continued his work in the related field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTruth be told, even with a degree in laboratory animal science, I entered veterinary school with the intention of pursuing zoological medicine,\u201d he said. \u201cI’ve always wanted to work with a variety of species.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the summer between his second and third year, he took an internship at Tulane’s National Primate Research Center. It was his first experience working with non-human primates, and he was hooked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter zoo medicine, laboratory animal medicine is the next best specialty for working with a wide variety of species,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After he finished his veterinary program, Campellone accepted an internship with Mannheimer Foundation, Inc., a laboratory that breeds non-human primates for use in biomedical research. He eventually moved to Emory University and worked with their laboratory animal residency before coming to UGA this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMuch of my professional experience has been in non-human primate medicine, particularly old-world species, but I also enjoy working with other traditional lab animal species such as rodents, ferrets, rabbits, fish, pigs, and the occasional cat and dog,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campellone is currently studying for the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine<\/a> (ACLAM) specialty boards next summer and hopes to be an ACLAM Diplomate<\/a> one day.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am very excited to get the opportunity to work with UGA\u2019s wide variety of species and put my last four years of training to good use,\u201d he said, also noting a passion for teaching. \u201cI feel honored to be a part of such an elite University, and to work at such an outstanding College of Veterinary Medicine<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University Research Animal Resources team is excited to welcome Gianni Campellone as the new clinical assistant professor in the Laboratory Animal Medicine program.  Campellone always wanted to work with animals and pursued a degree in zoology before deciding to go into veterinary medicine. After initially getting rejected from veterinary school, however, he began to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-12 05:16:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}