423: Bringing Leptospirosis back to the basics

And joining us is our wonderful friend, Dr.

Rob Armentano, in the house.

How are you, my friend?

I'm doing great.

How are you?

So good to finally see you.

Uh, just to the listeners, we've been connecting back and forth for quite some time and, um, trying to make this happen, and we got connected through a mutual friend of ours.

Shout out to Dr. Craig Clifford.

And, uh, so glad that you joined us and, um, looking forward to future collaborations with you.

You do a lot of great work for this profession.

Thank you so much.

Glad to be here.

Uh, so some information about our wonderful friend here.

Dr.

Rob is board certified in small animal internal medicine.

He's a Chicago native and did his undergrad studies in animal sciences at the University of Illinois.

After obtaining his admission to vet school, he completed the training at the University of Illinois as well.

After his DVM degree, he continued the training at the University of Florida.

Go?

Gators.

[laughs] You gotta do it.

You just have to.

Uh, in internship and internal medicine residency, Dr. Armentano has engaged in many speaking opportunity, s- excuse me, opportunities, including Chicago news updates on emerging infectious diseases, including blastomycosis, lepto, and canine influenza.

Dr. Armentano has participated in prospective research and published book chapters.

He currently works at the Veterinary Specialty Center in the Chicagoland area and is the head of the internal medicine department.