The top honor that an American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) member can obtain in his or her career is the AABP Bovine Practitioner of the Year Award sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim. At the 2025 58^th AABP Annual Conference which was held Sept. 11-13 in Omaha, Neb., Mark J. Thomas, D.V.M.'97, received this prestigious honor. This award honors a veterinarian in active practice who is active in organized veterinary medicine and has made significant contributions to bovine medicine. 

Other Cornellians were also honored at the event. Their recognitions were:

2025 AABP Foundation ​Competitive Research​ Grant Award​

• Bud-in or bud-out? A randomized field trial comparing two cautery disbudding techniques on wound healing in dairy calves. Matthias Wieland, Ph.D.'21, Robert Hovey Udall Assistant Professor, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences.

2025 AABP Research Summaries Graduate Student Awards

• First Place: Associations of early postpartum inflammation measured at 2 DIM with metrics of lactational success. Jackson Seminara, Combined D.V.M.-Ph.D.-pathway student

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