Betty Ma Appointed as Associate Director for the Research and Teaching Animal Care Program
The University of California, Davis, Office of Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Betty Ma as associate director of the Research and Teaching Animal Care Program, effective September 16, 2024. Ma will serve as the director of Campus Veterinary Services as well as the director of the Traditional Laboratory Animal Medicine Residency Program.
Ma will facilitate management and strategic harmonization of the distributed operations of over 1 million square feet of animal holding operational space at over 50 different vivaria. She will report to Rhonda Oates, associate vice chancellor for the Research and Teaching Animal Care Program.
The UC Davis Animal Care Program is one of the largest in the nation in size, number of species and diversity of research programs. Campus Veterinary Services provides veterinary care for spontaneous disease, research related disease and research support to the majority of the research and teaching animals within the UC Davis Research and Teaching Animal Care Program.
For more than a decade, Ma has been an integral part of the UC Davis Animal Care Program, providing critical support in disease surveillance, health monitoring, routine health maintenance and protocol driven clinical management to an eclectic collection of laboratory animals including rodents, rabbits, sheep, cattle, swine, fish and primates. She also brings a wealth of experience in personnel management, facility and safety oversight, technical competency and regulatory oversight for animal care.
Ma holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Washington State University and a B.S. in Animal Science from the University of California, Davis. Ma is a diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine and is a member of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science and the American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners.
