Co-host
Dr. Tom Nelson
Dr. Nelson is the Hospital Director of the VCA Animal Medical Center of N.E. Alabama in Anniston, AL and has been in private practice for 45 years. He was first elected to the board of American Heartworm Society in 2001 and has served as the Society president (2004-2007), Symposium Co-chair (2010-2013) and currently is chair of the AHS research committee. In 1997-1998, after doubting the validity of the incidence of heartworm in cats, he conducted his own study by performing necropsies on 259 cats
to determine true incidence. This study determined there was a higher prevalence of heartworm than feline leukemia or AIDS on the upper Texas Gulf Coast and that there was no correlation between heartworm and AIDS.