Post-Approval Review (PAR) Coordinator (Vacant)
Animal Care Services
Office: 
Research Innovation (building #92)
Website links: 
Animal Care Services

Leads and coordinates the Post-Approval Review (PAR) program for all active AUPs; conducts review visits to labs and facilities to provide support and guidance for investigators and their research teams; assists following animal incidents, instructs and develops training components for research team members for compliance and consistency in research outcomes.

Veterinarian and Associate Director (Vacant)
Animal Care Services
Office: 
Research Innovation (building #92)
Website links: 
Animal Care Services

Provides operational leadership to ACS’s ethics and compliance mandate, provides veterinary clinical care and support to researchers, facility veterinarians, facility managers and staff; assists investigators in developing Animal Utilization Protocols (AUP); provides operational leadership of the Animal User Training program, and acts as veterinary expertise in the post-approval activities.

Sarah Baert

Clinical Research Veterinarian
Animal Care Services
Email: 

sbaert@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
Research Innovation (building #92)
Website links: 
Animal Care Services

Provides clinical veterinary care and services in working with researchers and facilities; assists investigators in developing Animal Utilization Protocols (AUP); works to maintain high animal welfare standards and refinement in anesthesia, analgesia, surgery and other medical procedures; develops facility wide SOPs and guidance documents in the Post-Approval Review (PAR) program.

Kristyn Fournier

Compliance and Facility Coordinator (TFT)
Animal Care Services
Email: 

kfourn01@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
Research Innovation (building #92)
Website links: 
Animal Care Services

Leads the Animal Care Committee (ACC) facility site visits, coordinates the provincial inspections by Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA) and manages the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) assessment visits and ongoing reporting; acts as liaison between the animal facilities/research centres and the Animal Care Committee.

Preethi Jayanth

Animal Ethics Coordinator
Animal Care Services
Email: 

jayanth@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
Research Innovation (building #92)
Website links: 
Animal Care Services

Administers ACS’s day-to-day office activities and communications; leads initial intake of Animal Utilization Protocols (AUP); prepares protocols for ACC review and approvals; addresses queries and responses from Principal Investigators (PI); administers the Animal Care Committee membership, meeting agendas and minutes at ACC meetings.

Lena Levison

Interim Veterinarian and Director
Animal Care Services
Email: 

levisonl@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
Research Innovation (building #92)
Website links: 
Animal Care Services

Provides strategic and veterinary leadership to Animal Care Services (ACS), the unit responsible for overseeing and facilitating the ethical use of live animals in scientific research and education; ensures adherence to provincial regulations, national standards, and institutional policies, including managing the Animal Care Committee, which holds the formal responsibility for approving animal utilization protocols and ensuring that animals are treated with the highest standards of care and utmost respect.


 
photograph of Maka Natsvlishvili

Maka Natsvlishvili

Training Coordinator
Animal Care Services
Email: 

mnatsvli@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
Research Innovation (building #92)
Website links: 
ACS Training Program

Develops, implements and coordinates the Animal User Training program for all personnel working with animals in science; instructs in workshops and orientations; assesses training and educational requirements for personnel; organizes and provides mentor-facilitated training in specific skills.

Janet Sunohara-Neilson

Veterinarian (Post-Approval) and Associate Director
Animal Care Services
Email: 

janetsun@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
Research Innovation (building #92)
Website links: 
Animal Care Services

Provides operational leadership of the Post-Approval Review (PAR) program in accordance with CCAC guidelines; oversees compliance of facility site visits and regulatory inspections; provides veterinary clinical care and welfare assessments in support to researchers, facility veterinarians, and facility staff; assists researchers in developing Animal Utilization Protocols (AUP); instructs in the Animal User Training program.

photograph of Sascha Tuuha

Sascha Tuuha

Program Manager
Animal Care Services
Email: 

stuuha@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
Research Innovation (building #92)
Website links: 
Animal Care Services

Manages the Animal Ethics and Compliance subunit, supports policy development and standard operating procedures (SOPs), oversees animal ordering and reporting to authorities; manages ACS staff and ACS website; administers processes for scientific and pedagogical merit review preceding ACC review of projects.