Bishop B Curry, Iii, Dvm, Daclam Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Geneva, Switzerland, Ch

Boston, Ma, Us

My responsibilities include attending veterinary support for the National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory. The Animal Science Center provides research support for both Medical and Charles River campuses. I recently completed a 10-week Operational Excellence program sponsored by the Boston Consortium for Higher Education. The course covered major facets of project assessment and management. Each participant was required to develop a project with stipulated components and present said project to the entire class. Very rewarding!!!

I work with both small and large animals in a clinical setting here. My practice has grown 20% over the past three years, and we have 25-30 new clients joining us every month. I'm now looking to move away from the clinic (handing it over to some very capable leaders) so I can once again pursue my passion of comparative medicine.

New York, New York, Us

I was headhunted into this role due to my extensive background with comparative medicine and laboratory animal leadership roles. The site consisted of 3 vivaria which comprised 250K square feet of animal holding space. We had 106 employees and 8 program veterinarians.I oversaw compliance with local, state, and federal regulations. I had a shared budget responsibility for the site ($50M) with 10 direct reports. My efforts here helped us capture excellent AAALAC and USDA audits.A few other highlights included:• Bringing a training vendor on site to provide dosing / sampling collection training. I wanted our comparative medicine (CM) staff to provide more technical services right at our site. The research units were very pleased with our work which boosted my staff's morale due to its increased role in the research. We logged more than 1600+ hours each month in this new technical support.• Increasing the CM staff's competency by helping all of them earn some level of the AALAS certification. I drove a culture to "do all you can do and be all that you can be" in support of the company's mission.• Spearheading a massive move of many of our research units, animal colonies, equipment, and more to a new campus site in another state. I stayed on top of communication so things could run smoothly. This was a monumental, but ultimately successful, task.

I managed, through reports, 22 animal facilities and 300 staff to aid the NCI investigators in Bethesda and Frederick (Maryland). Between 2006 and 2009 I also held the title of Animal Program Director, NIH. I was a member of several committees that approved animal research and I won an award from the Animal Care and Use Committee, on the Bethesda campus, for program contributions.Additional achievements included:• Prioritizing the automation of our mice importation to NCI-Frederick from other facilities. I led an effort to develop an online process for import/export animals. This improvement reduced processing time, reduced possible mistakes, and created a transparent process that could be monitored by our customers.• Updating, standardizing, and driving compliance of the standard operating procedures (SOPs) across all the facilities. I am a firm believer that solid SOPs are critical to success.• Initiating electronic training records for all staff. This was a major undertaking that resulted in improving quality assurance measures.

I was recruited from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX to Primedica Labs. which was soon purchased by Charles River. I joined the company as a clinical veterinarian and was promoted to director in 10 months. I was the attending veterinarian for the Animal Care and Use Program at Worcester and Southbridge campuses in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act. Both sites consisted of 101K square feet of animal space. We had 60 techs and 3 veterinarians. I consulted with the study directors and pharmaceutical sponsors about study design and conduct, endpoints, and logistics.I had several achievements here, including successful USDA / AAALAC audits, merging the Southbridge and Worcester animal programs, consistently finding new ways to improve throughput and study logistics, and most importantly, improving my staff's morale in a contract testing environment.

Doctor Of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sciences, General

Certificate Of Completion: Comparative Pathology 1995-98, Residency Comparative Pathology

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Agricultural Sciences