George McCommon

Asst. Professor

Founders Hall at FVSU

College of Agriculture, Family Sciences and Technology

George McCommon

George McCommon

Asst. Professor

College of Agriculture, Family Sciences and Technology

    • O'Neal Veterinary Science Building
    • 1005 State University Dr.
    • Fort Valley, GA, 31030
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Veterinary Science & Public Health Academic Department

GEORGE MCCOMMON, DVM


Fort Valley State University
Department Head and Associate Professor of Veterinary Science
1005 State University Drive
O'Neal building
Fort Valley,  GA  31030
Phone: 478.825.6424
Fax: 478.827.3023
Email: mccommog@fvsu.edu

EDUCATION


Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
University of Georgia, Athens, GA (1990)
Bachelor of Science: Agriculture
University of Georgia, Athens, GA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


2001-Present
Associate Professor, Veterinary Science and Public Health
Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA
Currently Interim Department Head

  • 24 plus years of experience in equine, companion animal, mixed practice, emergency and corporate practice

  • 20 plus years of military experience as the Georgia Army National Guard Preventive Medicine Officer and Deputy Commander for Medical Command Deployed to Afghanistan May 2011 to April 2012

  • Assisted Department of State and Department of Energy in Afghanistan in Nov 2012 and May 2013

  • Involved in managing animal disaster management and in law enforcement and animal control facilities

  • Pharmaceutical industry: research and technical services


RESEARCH INTERESTS



  • Adult stem cells and their presence in circulating blood

  • Immune systems of animals

  • Biotechnology


HONORS AND AWARDS



  • 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award- University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

  • Past President of Historic Macon

  • Past Board Member of the Georgia Transplant Foundations

  • Past Member of the State of Georgia Agriculture and Food Safety Committee and the Georgia Department of Agriculture Companion Animal Committee

  • Past President of the Museum of Arts and Sciences

  • Past Board of Goodwill Industries (Macon and the CSTA)


 

PUBLICATIONS


Primitive Stem Cells are Present in the Blood of Adult Equines and Increase with Moderate Exercise or Ingestion of Aphanizomenon Flos-Aquae August 2013.
Primitive Stem Cells Residing in the Skeletal Muscle of Adult Pigs are Mobilized into the Peripheral Blood Following Trauma
Abstracts presented at Keystone Conferences in Utah (2007) and Vancouver (2008)