Dr Patricia Turner has been chosen as the laureate of the AVMA Animal Welfare Award for 2022.
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) named Dr. Patricia Turner, corporate vice president of Global Animal Welfare for Charles River Laboratories, as the winner of the 2022 AVMA Animal Welfare Award, in recognition of her decades of dedication to improving farm and laboratory animal welfare through teaching, training, service, research, advocacy, and policy development.
The AVMA Animal Welfare Award honours an AVMA member veterinarian who has made significant contributions to animal welfare through leadership, public service, education, research/product development, and/or advocacy. It’s one of the AVMA’s three Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Bond Excellence Awards, which are supported by Merck Animal Health’s educational financing.
Dr. Turner has spent countless hours volunteering around the world to promote the ethical treatment of animals in science. She has given lectures, seminars, and workshops on a number of issues pertaining to laboratory animal science, animal welfare, and ethics to a variety of veterinary and scientific groups. She has trained hundreds of veterinary colleagues and students as an educator, and she has created three well-regarded post-graduate programmes for veterinarians who specialise in laboratory animal science. Dr Turner and her team are now working on an in-house animal welfare online certificate programme for laboratory animal technicians.
Dr. Turner’s responsibilities at Charles River Laboratories include identifying welfare hazards and implementing animal welfare policies and training for the company’s locations in the United States and across the world. Her work has had a direct impact on how animals are raised, cared for, and worked within many locations throughout the world.
