The Vet Blast Podcast presented by dvm360
Sep 15, 2026 · 16 min · 9 segments
Stephanie Montgomery, DVM, PhD, DACVP, chief executive officer of the AKC Canine Health Foundation, joins host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, to talk about the foundation's work to improve the health of…
Stephanie MontgomeryGuestAdam ChristmanHostYeah, you've seen a lot of that in the media right now too, on the longevity of dogs and Colorado State University.
I think there was some, um, interview that was done there through, um, uh, ABC News, I believe, right? So really great, um, stuff that's out there.
Ta- tell me more about, uh, there's a Canine Health Discovery of the Year Award
Um, so last year was our inaugural award, and it's gonna be an, a, an award every year and, um, the deadline's coming up at the end of April here.
So what we do is we ask people, veterinarians, faculty at vet schools, that sort of thing, to nominate their peers and be bold and say, "You know, this discovery came out in the last year, and I think 10 years from now it will have been a game changer.
This is, like, what we were waiting for in this field." And, you know, it's a short application, and pitch it to us, like, why is this important for canine health? And then we take those applications, and we distribute them amongst a panel of experts around the world in various areas of expertise in canine health, and we decide, you know, what is, what is the big discovery this year that's changing canine health? Um, and so that award went to Dr.
She's at Tufts University, and she's a nutritionist, and she's been working on the nutrition-associated dilated cardiomyopathy challenge.
That's exciting to hear that all the, you know, research and discovery that's happening out there, it's gotta be hard to make a selection on that.
Yeah, you've seen a lot of that in the media right now too, on the longevity of dogs and Colorado State University.
I think there was some, um, interview that was done there through, um, uh, ABC News, I believe, right? So really great, um, stuff that's out there.
Ta- tell me more about, uh, there's a Canine Health Discovery of the Year Award
Um, so last year was our inaugural award, and it's gonna be an, a, an award every year and, um, the deadline's coming up at the end of April here.
So what we do is we ask people, veterinarians, faculty at vet schools, that sort of thing, to nominate their peers and be bold and say, "You know, this discovery came out in the last year, and I think 10 years from now it will have been a game changer.
This is, like, what we were waiting for in this field." And, you know, it's a short application, and pitch it to us, like, why is this important for canine health? And then we take those applications, and we distribute them amongst a panel of experts around the world in various areas of expertise in canine health, and we decide, you know, what is, what is the big discovery this year that's changing canine health? Um, and so that award went to Dr.
She's at Tufts University, and she's a nutritionist, and she's been working on the nutrition-associated dilated cardiomyopathy challenge.
That's exciting to hear that all the, you know, research and discovery that's happening out there, it's gotta be hard to make a selection on that.
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