Report of the AKC Delegates Canine Health Committee Susan LaCroix Hamil

Biographical Profile

Susan LaCroix Hamil graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1972 and received Masters degree in Library Science from California State University in 1975.

She has bred Bloodhounds under the Quite Creek prefix since 1970. In that time Quiet Creek has finished or produced nearly 40 champions, including specialty and all breed "Best-In- Show" winners as well as obedience title holders and titled mantrailers.

Susan is the past president of the American Bloodhound Club and currently serves as their delegate to the American Kennel Club. She is serving a second term on the Delegate's Canine Health Committee, and is currently serving as a board member of the AKC Canine Health Foundation.

As a breeder, veterinary technician and veterinary hospital manager she is vitally interested in the health and welfare of all dogs and most particularly in the challenges presented to the fancy and the sport of purebred dogs with the advent of improved identification and detection of genetic disease.

Dr. Sheldon Adler has been a breeder and active exhibitor of Giant Schnauzers for the past twenty-one years, and has served on the board of the Giant Schnauzer Club of America as President as well as Eastern Director. Dr. Adler has also been a member of the Rockland County Kennel Club and Delegate to the AKC for seven years as well as Delegate to the ADOA. For the past three years, he has served on the Canine Health Committee and has been Chairman for the past two years.

Dr. Adler's past surgical career in being responsible for surgical research laboratories at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center has afforded him a brief but intensive exposure to the requirements and subtleties of scientific research.