Donald Elmer Cooperrider (1949-1950s)

Donald Elmer Cooperrider was hired on November 15, 1949 as an associate professor of veterinary parasitology at the School of Veterinary Medicine. He collaborated with Hayes on Trichuris vulpis infection and treatment as well as treatment of ascardiosis in dogs. With V.B. Robinson, he studied Dioctophyme renale in dogs. He served as the secretary-treasurer (1961-1969) and then president of the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists (1972-1973). He received the AAVP Distinguished Service Award in 1988. https://aavp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/aavp-2017-annual-meeting-proceedings.pdf

By 1954, he had taken a position as Chief of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for the state of North Carolina in Raleigh.