{"id":1922,"date":"2020-09-21T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2020-11-23T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:12:29","slug":"brigetta-hughes-dvm-mam-joins-the-alabama-veterinary-diagnostic-lab-system-as-director-of-the-mitchem-sparks-regional-poultry-diagnostic-lab-in-boaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/2020\/09\/brigetta-hughes-dvm-mam-joins-the-alabama-veterinary-diagnostic-lab-system-as-director-of-the-mitchem-sparks-regional-poultry-diagnostic-lab-in-boaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Brigetta Hughes, DVM, MAM Joins the Alabama Veterinary Diagnostic Lab System as Director of the Mitchem Sparks Regional Poultry Diagnostic Lab in Boaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hughes earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Tennessee in 1987 and a Master of Avian Medicine from the University of Georgia, Poultry Diagnostic Research Center in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hughes has extensive clinical experience, both as a small animal practice owner, and as relief veterinarian for multiple small animal practices in Iowa. Her diverse background as a veterinarian also includes working with select exotic species and international volunteer teams to administer rabies vaccines to reduce\/eliminate human rabies cases. Dr. Hughes was also Technical Service Poultry Veterinarian and Diagnostic Laboratory Director for a large vertically integrated poultry company for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hughes\u2019 most recent appointment was at Murray State University, Breathitt Veterinary Center, where she served as Poultry Specialist, Veterinary Case Coordinator, and Assistant Professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hughes earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Tennessee in 1987 and a Master of Avian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avdl-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}