The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine certified 47 new diplomates following the certification examination it held on July 13, 2008, in Bethesda, Md.

The new diplomates are: Drs. Megan Albertelli, Palo Alto, Calif.; Lotus Altholtz, New York; Ruth Blauwiekel, Colchester, Vt.; Tanya Burkholder, Rockville, Md.; Charlette Cain, Chicago; Anthony Carty, Elkins Park, Penn.; Ramaswamy Chidambaram, Norwood, Mass.; Kimberley Cohen, Chesterfield, Va.; Todd Collins, Rockville, Md.; Robin Crisler-Roberts, Danville, Ind.; Lara Doyle, Slidell, La.; Jason Dufour, Amite, La.; Christine Ege, Rockville, Md.; Jeetendra Eswraka, Cordova, Tenn.; Dawn Fitzhugh, Silver Spring, Md.; Craig Fletcher, Cantonsville, Md.; Amy Funk, Collierville, Tenn.; Roger Geertsma, Carlsbad, Calif.; Tracy Gluckman, Winnetka, Ill.; Troy Hallman, Philadelphia; Judy Hickman-Davis, Hillard, Ohio; William Hill, Knoxville, Tenn.; Christopher Johnson, Rahway, N.J.; Matthew Kessler, Earlysville, Va.; Sharron Kirchain, Belmont, Mass.; Mary Knezevich, Thousand Oaks, Calif.; Norman Kreiselmeier, Myersville, Md.; Anne MacLarty, Walkersville, Md.; Thomas Meier, Rochester, Minn.; Shoreh Miller, Plainsboro, N.J.; Daniel Myers Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich.; Claude Nagamine, Palo Alto, Calif.; Yasmina Paramastri, Bogor, Indonesia; Harvey Ramirez, Hawthorne, Fla.; Kasi Russell-Lodrigue, Anderson, Texas; Bupinder Singh, Ithaca, N.Y.; Rachel Strittmatter, Southbury, Conn.; Shannon Stutler, Clarksburg, Md.; Christopher Suckow, Los Angeles; Joanne Tetens-Woodring, Edgewater, N.J.; Anne Torrance, Seattle; Panduranga Varada, Bedford, Mass.; Brian Wilgenburg, Gretna, Neb.; Steven Wilson, Clinton, Conn.; Claude Woodward Jr., Conroe, Texas; Julia Zaias, Miami Beach, Fla.; and Bernadette Zamora, Gainesville, Fla.