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HEART
STUDY MOVES TO NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
from Susan Murphy
The Health Committee has discussed the heart study, currently with Dr.
Bari Olivier at MSU, at great length and has concluded that after six
years into this project, with a good amount of data submitted by our membership,
there should be some statistical information that would move us on to
the next step. However, that is not the case, thus our decision to move
the study to Dr. Kate Meurs at North Carolina State University.
This was a major decision, but if we are going to move forward with this
project, we felt that Dr. Meurs was the person to help us. I am sure you
are all aware of Dr. Meurs' work in Cardiology with Dobermans and Boxers
with issues including Subvalvular Aortic Stenosis, Dilated Cardiomyopathy
and Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. If you would like
to know more about Dr. Meurs, she has a very interesting podcast on the
AKC Canine Health Foundation's website. You can reach it at http://www.akc-akcchf.libsyn.com.
In making this decision, we made sure that we were able to secure all
previously submitted data from Dr. Olivier and have it forwarded to Dr.
Meurs at NCSU. In the meantime, hold on to any test data you may have
until we finalize directions for submitting new data to Dr. Meurs. We
are excited that Dr. Meurs has accepted our Bull Terriers and the study
and are hopeful to move forward soon, but it is going to take us awhile
to get up and running since Dr. Meurs just transferred to NCSU as Associate
Dean - Research. We will make every effort to have all the information
to you as soon as possible
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