{"id":26607,"date":"2022-06-29T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=26607"},"modified":"2022-06-29T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:56:41","slug":"mda-assistant-state-veterinarian-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/mda-blog\/2022\/06\/29\/mda-assistant-state-veterinarian-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Assistant State Veterinarian Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26608\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/mda-blog\/2022\/06\/29\/mda-assistant-state-veterinarian-retires\/attachment\/dr-chapman\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1774&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1774\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dr. Chapman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg?fit=760%2C527&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman.jpg?resize=300%2C208\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C710&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C532&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1064&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1419&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/Dr.-Chapman-scaled.jpg?w=2280 2280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Nancy Jo Chapman Recognized\u00a0 for Service<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>SALISBURY, MD (June 28, 2022)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture honored Assistant State Veterinarian Dr. Nancy Jo Chapman at a retirement party recognizing her 15 years of state service. Dr. Chapman started with the Department in 2009 as Assistant Chief of Animal Health for Operations and the regional veterinarian for southern Maryland before eventually becoming Assistant State Veterinarian. Dr. Chapman also briefly served as acting State Veterinarian prior to Dr. Michael Odian\u2019s appointment in that position.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDr. Jo has tirelessly provided outstanding service and care to the animals of the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Maryland ag industry,\u201d said Secretary Joe Bartenfelder. \u201cHer contributions to our animal health programs are immeasurable. I wish her nothing but the best as she enters retirement.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Chapman&#8217;s commitment to the mission of the Animal Health program has resulted in significant contributions to veterinary diagnostic laboratory services and the animal agriculture industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mdagdept\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nancy Jo Chapman Recognized\u00a0 for Service SALISBURY, MD (June 28, 2022)\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture honored Assistant State Veterinarian Dr. Nancy Jo Chapman at a retirement party recognizing her 15 years of state service. Dr. Chapman started with the Department in 2009 as Assistant Chief of Animal Health for Operations and the regional<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/mda-blog\/2022\/06\/29\/mda-assistant-state-veterinarian-retires\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mda-blog"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26607"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26615,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607\/revisions\/26615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}