Oct. 9, 2006   Macintire wins national critical care award   Auburn University Professor Dougie Macintire has been awarded the national 2006 Ira M. Zaslow Distinguished Service Award from the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society.   The society’s board of directors named Dr. Macintire during its annual meeting in September in San Antonio, Texas.   Dr. Macintire, who joined the Auburn faculty in 1990, teaches emergency medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine and is co-director of the college’s Critical Care Service. She was president of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society from 1996 to 1998 and served eight years on the board of directors. Since 1996 she has been the small animal medicine editor of The Compendium for Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian.   She achieved board certification in internal medicine from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1986, and in 1990 she became the first person to pass the certification examination issued by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.   Dr. Macintire earned her veterinary degree from Texas A&M University in 1980, did an internship at Louisiana State University, and completed a residency in internal medicine at Auburn, earning her master’s degree in 1984. She served on the University of Pennsylvania faculty for six years, before moving to Auburn.   The Ira M. Zaslow Distinguished Service Award is named for Dr. Ira M. Zaslow, one of the founders of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society and the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.   Return to News