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Kleven, head of avian medicine, is named a Regents Professor
By Dot Sparer
dsparer@vet.uga.edu
Stanley H. Kleven, Distinguished Research Professor of Avian Medicine and Microbiology, head of the department of avian
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medicine, and director of the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, has been named a Regents Professor.
“Dr. Kleven’s scientific accomplishments are impressive and too numerous to list,” says Keith W. Prasse, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. “In my opinion, Dr. Kleven, through his scholarship and creative activity recognized nationally and internationally, is truly deserving of the recognition as a Regents Professor.”
Although Kleven’s research has contributed to many aspects of avian medicine, his investigations have focused on avian mycoplasmosis, one of the serious respiratory diseases affecting the multi-billion-dollar commercial chicken and turkey industries in the United States and other countries.
Kleven’s contributions have led to an understanding of these economically important diseases and to the control of these diseases with vaccinations and worldwide eradication programs. Kleven was one of the first to use the concept of DNA fingerprinting for molecular characterization of avian mycoplasmas--a technique used to understand the epidemiology of mycoplasma outbreaks and to monitor the progress of control programs that use live vaccines.
In recent years, he has used polymerase chain reaction techniques to improve molecular epidemiological studies of natural mycoplasma outbreaks.
A member of the University of Georgia faculty since 1970, he received his B.S., D.V.M., and Ph.D. in veterinary microbiology from the University of Minnesota in St. Paul.
Kleven began his postdoctoral career in 1965 at a large-animal practice in North Dakota. In 1966, he returned to the University of Minnesota as an instructor and became a Fellow in 1967. He came to the Poultry Disease Research Center in Athens as an assistant professor in 1970, becoming director of the center and head of the avian medicine department two years later.
“There are no more productive or knowledgeable individuals in poultry medicine,” says Charles Beard, vice president of research and technology at the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association. Perhaps Kleven’s greatest contribution, according to Prasse, “has come from his effort to share his knowledge and expertise with others around the world,” by training their scientists and students, consulting with their poultry companies, investigating with other veterinary institutions, and presenting research at international meetings.
“In this day and age it is most important that professors are able to articulate their knowledge and wisdom outside the confines of academia,” says Kevin Whithear, deputy dean of the University of Melbourne College of Veterinary Science. “Dr. Kleven has clearly been highly successful in this regard and has been a distinguished and respected ambassador for the University of Georgia around the world.”
Regents professorships are granted for three years and may be renewed for another three years. Only one UGA candidate may be nominated annually. Recipients are awarded a $10,000 salary increase and a yearly $5,000 fund for scholarly purposes.
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