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The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center recently published its 2025 Impact Report. This annual report highlights the work and milestones achieved here at 510 East 62nd Street over the previous year. Some of the most impactful events of 2025 have already been featured in prior blogposts – AMC’s four-year, 83,000 square-foot, and $125 million hospital transformation and a listing of AMC’s Usdan Institute for Animal Health Education’s 2025 webinars to help you start the New Year on a healthy note for your pet. One section of the Impact Report that I have not included in prior blogposts is AMC’s 2025 research portfolio. That scholarly engagement will be the subject of this blogpost.

The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center’s tripartitie mission centers on providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education. This mission defines AMC’s purpose and directs our work to effect positive changes in veterinary care.

Any medical or surgical procedure carries a risk of a complication such as an infection. Infections in human patients occur in about 4% of hospitalized patients. The number of infections in hospitalized dogs and cats is not well studied. However, studies of hospital-related infections help physicians and veterinarians improve the quality of care they provide to their patients. Today’s blogpost will talk about infections associated with intravenous (IV) catheters and how AMC is working to make them less common.

I was gabbing recently with a friend who is obsessed with her dog. Somehow, we got on the topic of what information is most interesting to pet owners. Our information conclusion was that people love to talk about what they should feed their pet and don’t focus on how much they feed their pet, i.e. obesity. I decided to collect some data on what readers of the AMC blog read most frequently to answer that question. That information is the subject of this blogpost.

The American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) is celebrating its 50th anniversary. ACVIM encompasses the veterinary specialties of oncology, neurology, internal medicine, cardiology and nutrition. As part of the celebration, the ACVIM is highlighting their official journal, the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (JVIM), which just celebrated its 35th birthday. The JVIM provides an international forum for communication and discussion of the latest developments in large and small animal internal medicine, cardiology, neurology and oncology, making JVIM a journal AMC veterinarians read frequently and with great interest.