Animal Care and Use Program Manual, Division of Animal Resources 2. The institution has a full-time veterinarian, Dr. Billy W. Howard. He has full responsibility for the management and operation of the facility. His office is in the facility so he has daily opportunity to monitor the animals. He also has daily interactions with investigators to monitor their use of animals.
Dialogue is encouraged and questions are asked of individuals and specific protocols.
In the absence of the full-time veterinarian, a local companion animal veterinarian, Dr. Jan Ball, assumes the veterinary care responsibilities. This veterinarian has been in practice for 14 years. One has been on the staff for eight years. The other has been on the staff for three years. New full-time technicians take the correspondence course offered by Ralston Purina.