NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
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Dr. Shane Bateman, a veterinarian at the Ontario Veterinary College, has received the 2024 Outstanding Veterinarian Award from the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association. The award, which was presented last week at the OVMA Conference and Trade Show in Toronto, recognizes a veterinarian’s outstanding contributions to the profession and animal welfare.
Since 2014, Dr. Bateman has worked as an associate professor at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College (OVC). He’s also a clinician in the Emergency and Critical Care Service in OVC’s Health Sciences Centre.
Dr. Bateman was a driving force behind the Kim & Stu Lang Community Healthcare Partnership Program, a new learning pathway at OVC, and served as interim director. The program is designed to train veterinary students to deliver a spectrum of high-quality veterinary care to vulnerable populations in diverse, inadequately serviced and poorly resourced communities.
He shares his breadth of knowledge by mentoring students, consulting, lecturing and presenting at conferences, as well as contributing to many publications. His contributions to animal welfare and the veterinary profession have been recognized with several awards and scholarships, including the 2019 Boehringer Ingelheim Award of Excellence in Clinical Teaching.
Dr. Bateman participates in many philanthropic endeavours. He’s the regional co-director for Community Veterinary Outreach, which aims to improve the health of homeless and vulnerably housed communities through veterinary care for their pets. He was also a longtime board member at the Guelph Humane Society, and he’s developed and led programs that deliver low-cost preventive veterinary care to First Nations communities.
“Shane is a true gift to the veterinary profession and his accomplishments in advancing animal welfare in vulnerable and disadvantaged communities should be celebrated,” says his colleague, Dr.Katie Clow.
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