Office of Public Affairs
Student Life
About UGA
Services
Hospital Services
Services apply to both Small and Large Animals unless noted otherwise.
| Contact Us | |
|---|---|
| Phone | 706.542.3221 answered 24/7 |
| hospital@uga.edu | |
| Directions | |
| Small Animal Teaching Hospital | |
| Large Animal Teaching Hospital | |
| Behavior Service | |
| Dermatology Service | |
| General Information | |
| First Time Visitors | |
| Client Guidelines | |
| Clinical Trials | |
| Client Resources | |
| About Our Hospital | |
| Client Satisfaction Survey | |
RDVMs
| Referral Coordinators | |
|---|---|
| Small Animal | Large Animal |
| 800.861.7456 | 800.861.7458 |
| 706.542.5362 | 706.542.3223 |
| 706.202.0379 (After-Hours Emergencies Only) |
|
| Consult Forms | |
| General Referral | Aquatic Animal History |
| Avian History | Mammal History |
| Wildlife History | Reptile History |
| Oncology | Radiographic |
| Internal Medicine - Small Animal | |
| Other Links | |
| VTH Pharmacy | RDVM Info Update |
| Clinical Trials | Satisfaction Survey |
| Radiological Technologies | VMLC |
| RDVM Resources | Giving |
Thank you for your continuing support of the University of Georgia Veterinary Teaching Hospital. We hope the following information is helpful. If you have further questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
The University of Georgia Veterinary Teaching Hospital is home to many specialists in a variety of areas for both large and small animals. We offer state of the art capabilities in diagnostic imaging and employ many advanced therapeutic modalities.
Click here for a list of available Radiology Technologies
We also like to keep you up-to-date on the status of your patients. Feel free to contact us if you have questions during any portion of the diagnostic, treatment and follow-up processes.
To refer a large animal to our hospital, please call our large animal referral coordinators; phone numbers are listed on the right side of this page.
To refer a small animal, please fill out a Referral Form [PDF] and FAX it to 706.542.2858 [small animal] or 706.542.4701 [small animal]. Please include a case summary and a contact number, should we need to reach you.
If you are unsure whether a referral is necessary at this time, or if you have general questions or need to follow up with a case that has been evaluated and/or treated at our facilities, contact our referral coordinators for further assistance
Community Practice Clinic
| Clinic Information | |
|---|---|
| Clinic Hours | 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (M-F) |
| Appointments | 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. |
| 706.542.1984 | |
| Late Pick-ups | Until 6 p.m. |
| After-hours Emergencies | 706.542.3221 |
| Clinic Director | Dr. Ira G. Roth |
| Directions | Behavior Service Dermatology Service |
The UGA Community Practice Clinic serves patients whose owners live in the greater Athens area. The primary care clinic, separate from our referral hospital, is operated by faculty veterinarians who are assisted by UGA veterinary students, an intern (a DVM working on advanced training), and trained veterinary technicians.
The clinic provides our fourth-year DVM students with a unique opportunity to experience the operation of a general veterinary practice under the guidance of full-time faculty veterinarians, while also providing the surrounding community with quality care for companion animals.
In addition to offering routine care, the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine’s Behavior and Dermatology services are also located in the Community Practice Clinic. Neither service requires a referral from your primary veterinarian.
Dr. Ira G. Roth with Lila
News
UGA welcomes 102 incoming veterinary students in White Coat Ceremony
The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine welcomed the class of 2015 during its annual White Coat Ceremony held last month. Sponsored by the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association, this event officially recognized 102 members of the incoming class by donning them in lab coats to be worn during their veterinary education.
The hour-long ceremony was held in the Mahler Auditorium of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. After the ceremony, Dr. Kevin Chapman, president of the GVMA, led the two-block recessional of coated students to the College of Veterinary Medicine for a class photo and a reception with their families and members of the college's faculty and staff......Read more..
'Osy' Debuts as an Educational Mobile App
Having successfully navigated her way through select high school classrooms in North Georgia for more than two years while capturing the attention of hundreds of students, Osy Osmosis has now entered the competitive world of mobile apps.
Developed by a group of researchers, educators and software developers at the University of Georgia, Osy is a fun, educational game designed to teach the principle of osmosis, or how water moves in and out of cells.Osy was released this month on Apple's iTunes App store for the iPhone/iPod Touch ($1.99) and also as a HD version for the iPad ($3.99).To link to Osy, see http://www.osyosmosis.com/.....Read more..
Our Mission is:To provide exceptional and compassionate animal healthcare today, in a dynamic environment for learning and discovery, that will further enhance animal and human health tomorrow.
Teaching
UGA's Board Examination Pass Rates
Research
Information for Referring Veterinarians
Social Media
Services
Infectious Diseases Laboratory
Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories
VetView Software: Veterinary Hospital & Laboratory Management System
Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS)
Veterinary Medical Learning Center
Academic Departments
Small Animal Medicine & Surgery (includes exotics, wildlife & zoo medicine)
Administrative Departments
For Clients, Visitors and Friends
Job listings for veterinarians
For Alumni
For Faculty, Staff and Students
ABOUT US
Injured dog becomes Hospital's first patient
In the early 1950s, a little brown dog named Charlie Bray - a treasured member of the Toombs Lewis family - was brought to the newly constructed veterinary hospital after being struck by a car.
According to Toombs Lewis Jr., who owned the dog when he was 6 or 7 years old, the dog was hit by a car in front of their home in Greensboro. The family decided to take him to the new veterinary hospital in Athens which was just getting ready to open its doors.
Before moving to Greensboro, the Lewis family had lived on Ag Hill in Athens while Lewis' father was finishing a degree in forestry at UGA. This gave them an opportunity to watch the new veterinary school being built.
When Lewis' mother and grandmother arrived at the hospital with Charlie Bray, they saw the staff unpacking large numbers of boxes with supplies. The reason soon became clear: the young veterinarian who welcomed them informed them that the injured pet was the school's first patient.
Charlie Bray remained in the hospital for six weeks recovering from multiple fractures of the forelimbs and various other injuries. When the Lewis family came to take their dog home, they were told no payment was expected. "They never charged us a penny," Lewis says.
Lewis graduated from the University of South Carolina, but many members of his family have ties to UGA, including his son, Robert Toombs Lewis, who is a graduate of the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine.
Lewis also has a famous great, great, great grandfather, Robert Toombs, who enrolled in Franklin College in 1824 at the age of 14.
"He gave them quite a time for two years before he left under fire and finished at Union College," says Lewis. "It is said he shot the windows out of the Phi Kappa house and that's why the front is bricked up today."
Eventually Toombs earned a law degree at the University of Virginia, then started practicing law in Georgia at the age of 19. He went on to become a U.S. Senator, a general in the Confederate army, and the Confederacy's first secretary of state. His portrait now hangs in Demosthenian Hall.
