Provides clinical veterinary care - Schedules and/or participates in an on-call, emergency care, weekend and holiday rotation as required to assure clinical veterinary coverage - Actively manages and oversees clinical research involving rabbit and swine species with responsibilities that include developing and implementing procedures for pre and post-operative care, anesthesia, analgesia, and euthanasia, in addition to providing direct oversight of a surgical OR and related resources - Serves as an alternate member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee - Oversees a veterinary externship program - Serves as a faculty member within a veterinary postdoctoral training program in laboratory animal medicine with responsibilities including, but not limited to, participation in a didactic lecture series, participation in a journal review rotation, and clinical mentorship of veterinary postdoctoral fellows - Helps to ensure NYU Langone Health’s program of veterinary care remains in compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations, and meets AAALAC accreditation standards - Collaboratively coordinates with departments within DCM, such as Operations and the DCM Business Office, in addition to departments outside of DCM, such as Environmental Health & Safety and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee - Provides surgical and technical support to investigators through training and animal model development - Helps to manage preventative medicine programs, including the rodent sentinel program, vendor surveillance, and rodent quarantine - Develops, updates, and implements departmental standard operating procedures - Develops short and long-term plans to help achieve departmental goals, or to support the implementation of new ideas or processes, and proactively identifies and addresses contingencies - Maintains familiarity with trends, issues, and advances in strategic and program planning through periodic review of relevant journals or other literature - Identifies and actively pursues a planned program of professional growth through continuing education, etc. Additional Responsibilities and Performance Standards - Respects and maintains research confidentiality - Cooperates and communicates effectively and harmoniously with supervisor, management, peers, general staff, physicians, other research personnel, and the general public in a courteous and professional manner - Written and verbal communications are effective, informative, and professional. - Is customer service oriented and attentive to others, responds appropriately, answer questions, and/or provides needed information within reasonable time frames - Makes sound judgments, based on gathering and analyzing factual and objective data; is able to interpret policies and procedures in order to make a sound independent decision. - Demonstrates alertness and adaptability to dynamic working conditions; responds appropriately. - Makes decisions in a timely manner. - Makes suggestions for positive changes. - Readily accepts new responsibilities and assignments. - Recognizes when help might be needed by others, proactively offers guidance and assistance. Minimum Required Qualifications DVM/ VMD/ BV - Sc degree from an AVMA-accredited veterinary school Three years of laboratory animal medicine experience within an ACLAM recognized laboratory animal medicine residency training program ACLAM board eligibility required Preferred Qualifications ACLAM board certification preferred