{"id":8156,"date":"2025-12-03T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/?page_id=8156"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:18:58","slug":"wong-reappointed-vcs-chair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wong-reappointed-vcs-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Wong Reappointed VCS Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8157\" src=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/davidwong1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"David Wong standing in equine ward\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/davidwong1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/davidwong1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/davidwong1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/davidwong1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/davidwong1-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/davidwong1-2048x1368.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 3, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. David Wong, professor of veterinary clinical sciences, has been reappointed to second five-year term as chair of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2020, Wong has provided strong leadership to the department, expanding the Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center\u2019s workforce, making key facility improvements and developing innovative departmental programs. His dedication and accomplishments were recently recognized with the awarding of the 2025 Iowa State Award for Achievement in Departmental Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>He has also developed innovative programs to advance the careers of new departmental faculty including a mentorship program that pairs early and mid-to-late career faculty together for discussions on professional development and faculty success.<\/p>\n<p>During his initial term, Dr. Wong also served the college as the interim director of the Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"site_sections":["VCS","VETMED"]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wong Reappointed VCS Chair - 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