0-Year employee Honored

Brad Barnes has been a CVHS “team player” for the past 20 years.

As manager of technical resources for the CVHS complex, this self-taught computer expert is responsible for everything from slide projectors to accounting information systems. This year, however, he received an OSU Distinguished Service Award for his service to OSU staff.

In addition to his job responsibilities, Barnes is a key member of the Flexible Compensation Benefits Committee. He worked with a team to develop a new retirement program for the OSU System, which included acceptance and implementation by the Oklahoma state legislature. He also worked with another team to develop a cyber security plan for the OSU System.

CVHS is lucky to have a dedicated and competent employee in Brad Barnes who is willing to go beyond what is expected of him. Congratulations, Brad, on 20 years with CVHS and on your OSU Distinguished Service Award!

DerinDa Lowe

Distinguished Service

Congratulations to Lisa Gallery, registered veterinary technician and recipient of the OSU Staff Advisory Council’s Technical Paraprofessional Distinguished Service Award. Each year faculty and staff members across campus submit nominations for this special recognition of quality service to OSU’s customers — whether they be prospective students, fellow employees or paying clients.

Gallery earned a bachelor’s degree in wildlife ecology from OSU in 1993. She works in small animal internal medicine at the Boren Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, where she has been employed the past four years. While working full time at the hospital, she graduated from Cedar Valley College’s Distance Education Veterinary Technician Program with an associate of applied science degree in veterinary technology in December 2004.

Gallery describes her job as a “little bit of everything. We work closely with the fourth-year veterinary students doing clinical rotations,” she says. “We also see patients, take care of diagnostics and manage animal health care for clients and everything else involved with veterinary medicine.”