Dr. Tony Caver

South Carolina State Veterinarian
Director, Clemson University Livestock-Poultry Health

Degrees Held:

B.S., Animal and Poultry Science, Tuskegee Institute
M.S., Public Health, Epidemiology, University of South Carolina
D.V.M., Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee Institute

Research Interests:

Dr. Caver's special interest is zoonotic diseases, those that can be transmitted from animals to humans. He completed the Foreign Animal Disease Pathology course at Plum Island (NY) Animal Disease Center in 2001.

Responsibilities:

Dr. Tony Caver is the State Veterinarian for South Carolina and Director of Clemson University’s Livestock-Poultry Health Programs. Livestock-Poultry Health Programs include the Veterinary Diagnostic Center, Animal Health Regulatory Programs, and the Meat and Poultry Inspection Department for the state of South Carolina.

Dr. Caver joined Clemson in 1981 as an area supervisor for the Meat and Poultry Inspection Department and later became pathologist for the Veterinary Diagnostic Center. He served as interim co-director of the diagnostic center before being named state veterinarian and director of Livestock-Poultry Health Programs. Prior to joining Clemson, he was in private veterinary practice in the Aiken-Augusta area.

He is a colonel in the S.C. Air National Guard and commander of the 169th Medical Group at McEntire Joint National Guard Station. He served on the Preventive Aerospace Medicine team in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Recognition:

He was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to Carnegie-Mellon University and was inducted into Phi Zeta Honor Society of Veterinary Medicine and Delta Omega Honor Society of Public Health. He was named Outstanding Classified Employee of the Year for Clemson’s Division of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Research.

He has received the Air National Guard’s Outstanding Public Health Officer of the Year Award. He is a member of the S.C. Association of Veterinarians, American Veterinary Medical Association, and the Spring Valley Rotary Club of Columbia, S.C.

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