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Bettye Walters, DVM, Director
Phone: 301-314-6821
Fax: 301-314-6855
bwalter1@umd.edu

Dr. Walters is the Director of the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine, with primary responsibility for programs directed at post-graduate veterinarians in government and corporate veterinary medicine.  Dr. Walters also coordinates clerkships for veterinary students in government agencies such as the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and animal shelters and humane societies.  She is the course leader for a Food Safety for Veterinarians course and designed, plus, implemented a preparatory course for veterinarians taking the American College of Preventive Medicine boards.  Further, she is initiating a course which covers ethical and legal issues surrounding animals in research, production and exhibition.  Dr. Walters obtained her DVM degree from Tuskegee University.  Her primary experience has been with public practice veterinary medicine, with various positions throughout the country with the Veteran's Administration, the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

Linda A. Detwiler, DVM, Assistant Director
Phone: 732-741-2290
Fax: 732-741-7751
LAVet22@aol.com

Dr. Detwiler currently serves as an Assistant Director of the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland. In this capacity, she serves as a liaison between the CPCVM, USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services (VS) and the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine. Her primary role is to promote careers in public practice with an emphasis on APHIS, Veterinary Services. This is accomplished by visiting all of the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and interacting with the students and faculty through lectures, case studies, wet labs, etc. Dr. Detwiler coordinates the APHIS, VS externship program.

Dr. Linda A. Detwiler graduated in 1980 from the Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Dairy Science. In 1984 she received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. From 1996 to 2002, Dr. Detwiler served as the Senior Staff Veterinarian of the Emergency Programs Staff for the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS). There, she coordinated APHIS surveillance, prevention, and education activities for BSE. She also coordinated the development of a national BSE response plan. From 2002 to 2003 Dr. Detwiler was the Veterinarian in Charge of APHIS’s Veterinary Services, where she oversaw all Veterinary Service programs in the state of New Jersey.