Texas Tech to provide veterinary students, faculty, staff with Butterfly imaging equipment
School reinforces commitment to advancing innovation in veterinary medicine
Butterfly Network, Inc., a digital health company, and Texas Tech University (TTU) School of Veterinary Medicine recently announced an expansion of their partnership. The School of Veterinary Medicine has acquired additional Butterfly iQ+ Vet probes to offer every incoming veterinary student with a device for the duration of their veterinary education.
This builds on TTU’s 2021 investment in Butterfly iQ Vet probes, which will now also be used for clinical faculty and staff. The agreement allows graduating veterinary students to purchase a Butterfly probe upon graduation at a student rate, according to a news release.
Dr. John Dascanio, senior associate dean for academic and student affairs and professor of Theriogenology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, said the goal is for TTU students to be practice ready for their clinical community final year so that they are helping lead diagnostics in clinical practices.
“The sequence across six pre-clinical semesters allows students to build skills and practice so that they are able to recognize what is normal and identify common abnormalities,” he said.
Jenna Mutch, Butterfly Network’s vice president, veterinary, said that equipping each student with a Butterfly iQ+ Vet from the first day of vet school allows students to learn with the benefit of 3D visualization within each phase of their training, from anatomy to clinical case experience. She lauded the TTU School of Veterinary Medicine for empowering students to not only read and learn, but to see and learn. “We are proud to be a part of this evolution,” she said.
Butterfly iQ+ Vet is embedded in the TTU curriculum and is used in a variety of hands-on skills training courses throughout all four years of instruction, including the clinical year curriculum alongside the School of Veterinary Medicine’s practice partners.
Butterfly iQ+ Vet is the world’s only single probe, whole-body, multi-species imaging system. The iQ+ Vet is the second-generation of Butterfly’s veterinary ultrasound device and brings sharper imaging, new procedural guidance tools such as Needle VizTM, and hardware improvements that make the solution more powerful, versatile and easy-to-use compared to the first generation iQ Vet.
Veterinarians can request more information about Butterfly iQ+ Vet at: vet.butterflynetwork.com.
About Butterfly Network
Founded by Dr. Jonathan Rothberg in 2011 and listed on the NYSE through a merger with Longview Acquisition Corp (NYSE: BFLY), Butterfly Network created the world's most advanced handheld, single-probe, whole-body veterinary ultrasound system, Butterfly iQ+ Vet. Butterfly’s mission is to enable universal access to superior medical imaging, and part of that mission is to enable the scanning of every animal at each veterinary visit. Through its proprietary Ultrasound-on-ChipTM technology, Butterfly is paving the way for earlier detection and remote management of health conditions around the world.
About Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine
Thanks to the generosity of Amarillo and communities across Texas and the commitment of legislators from around the state, the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo was established in 2018. In March 2021, the school was granted the status of Provisional Accreditation, from the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education.
The School of Veterinary Medicine recruits and selects students with deep life experiences in rural and regional communities. Its curriculum is focused on the competencies and skills necessary for success in practice types that support these communities. Texas Tech’s innovative and cost-efficient model partners with the wider community of veterinary practices across the state to provide clinical, real-world experiential learning.
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