What Every IACUC Should Know About AAALAC International

<p>Helen E. Diggs MEd, DVM, DACLAM is the Senior Director for AAALAC International. She was previously the Attending Veterinarian, Director of Laboratory Animal Resources Center, and a Professor at the Carson College of Veterinary Medicine at Oregon State University. Prior to that she was Attending Veterinarian and Director of the Office of Laboratory Animal Care at the University of California-Berkeley. She earned her Veterinary degrees from Oregon State University and Washington State University and received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Oregon State University. She served on the Board of Directors for the Oregon Veterinary Medical Association and is a past-president of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM). Helen served as an AAALAC International ad hoc beginning in 1994 and served on AAALAC Council from 2007-2018.</p>

<p>Jane Na, DVM, CPIA is the Director of the Division of Assurances in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW). She completed her laboratory animal medicine residency as well as her Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Michigan and attained her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Michigan State University. Prior to joining OLAW in 2017, Dr. Na was the Lead Analyst at the University of California San Francisco in the Institutional Animal Care and Use Program office.</p>