123rd Annual MVMA
Summer Conference
June 28 - July 1, 2009
Rocky Gap Resort •
Cumberland, Maryland
Featured Speaker
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Richard M. Linnehan, DVM
NASA Astronaut
Sponsored by Nutramax
Laboratories, Inc.
Originally from Lowell, Massachusetts, Dr. Linnehan received
his veterinary degree from The Ohio State University College
of Veterinary Medicine in 1985 and honorary Doctorates of
Science from the University of New Hampshire and Suffolk
University in 2002. After graduating, Dr. Linnehan entered
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veterinary practice and was later
accepted to a two-year joint internship in zoo animal medicine and
comparative pathology at the Baltimore Zoo and The Johns Hopkins
University.
After completing his internship, Dr.
Linnehan was commissioned as a Captain in the U.S. Army Veterinary
Corps and reported for duty in early 1989 at the Naval Ocean Systems
Center, San Diego, California, as chief clinical veterinarian for
the U.S. Navy’s Marine Mammal Program. During his assignment at the
Naval Ocean Systems Center, Dr. Linnehan initiated and supervised
research in the areas of cetacean and pinniped anesthesia,
orthopedics, drug pharmacokinetics and reproduction in direct
support of U.S. Navy mobile marine mammal systems stationed in
California, Florida, and Hawaii. He is a member of the American
Veterinary Medical Association and the American Association of Zoo
Veterinarians among others.
In August 1992, selected by NASA, Dr. Linnehan reported to the
Johnson Space Center where he completed one year of astronaut
candidate training qualifying him for Space Shuttle flight
assignments as a mission specialist. He was assigned to the
Astronaut Office Mission Development Branch, working on payload
development, and mission development flight support for future Space
Shuttle missions. Dr. Linnehan first flew as a mission specialist in
1996 on STS-78, the Life Sciences and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS)
mission. A veteran of four space flights, he has logged over 58 days
in space, including 6 spacewalks totaling 42 hours and 11 minutes.
Dr. Linnehan has been awarded the Navy Group Achievement Award, Navy
Commendation Medal, three NASA Space Flight Medals (1996, 1998,
2002), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (1999), AVMA President’s
Award, The OSU College of Veterinary Medicine Alumni Award, and The
University of New Hampshire Distinguished and Outstanding Alumni
Awards.
Currently Dr. Linnehan is attending a one-year Fellowship at the
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston. |
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