Michael Q. Bailey, DVM

District II AVMA Board of Directors Representative

Biographical sketch

Dr. Michael Q. Bailey is a board–certified veterinary radiologist and assistant medical director for telemedicine at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.

He began his career on the faculty at Michigan State University and The Ohio State University. He then opened a veterinary imaging center in central Ohio, which provided the first veterinary-specific CT scanner and advanced veterinary imaging services in that state.

Dr. Bailey returned to Tuskegee University, his alma mater, where he became head of diagnostic imaging services and director of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. During that time, he completed an AVMA/American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellowship in the U.S. House of Representatives. After returning to private practice in an ER/referral specialty hospital, Dr. Bailey developed a new imaging service in the eastern part of Pittsburgh. In 2009, he joined MARS/Banfield Pet Hospital as lead radiologist. During his experience as an educator and radiologist, he has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on imaging, radiation safety and therapeutic radiology.

A longtime supporter and member of organized veterinary medicine, Dr. Bailey has served in the AVMA House of Delegates as an alternate delegate for Pennsylvania. He has also been a member of the board of trustees for the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association and is an active diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Radiology.

Dr. Bailey received his veterinary degree from the Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine.