Dr Weedon

Dr. Robert Weedon has practiced veterinary medicine for twenty eight years. Recently he retired as the Senior Partner of College Road Animal Hospital, PLLC, a seven-doctor, two-location small animal practice in Wilmington, NC.

Since 1999, Dr. Weedon has served as Adjunct Faculty in Honors and Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He has taught his course, “Animals in Society,” for eleven years, and currently teaches Epidemiology to pre-professional students in the Biology Department. An additional duty at UNCW includes assisting with student advising of pre-veterinary students and serving as one of the faculty advisors of the Pre-Veterinary Medical Association.

As an advocate for solving the problem of pet overpopulation, Dr. Weedon volunteers with Friends of Felines, a group that surgically sterilizes feral cats in the Wilmington community and at the onsite spay/neuter facility at New Hanover County Animal Control Services. Dr. Weedon serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs, an organization whose goal is to develop a non-surgical sterilant to help solve the problem of pet overpopulation worldwide.

Dr. Weedon serves as the veterinarian on the New Hanover County Board of Health, and is a member of the Executive Committee, the Environmental Health and the Animal Control Services Advisory committees. At the December 2008 meeting, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Health by his peers to serve in that capacity during 2009. Dr. Weedon serves on the Board of Directors of the Public Health Foundation of New Hanover County, having been elected President for 2009, and UNC Public Health Foundation Board. In June, 2008, he received the Bill Lehman Memorial Award from the National Animal Control Association as the outstanding animal control volunteer in the United States. Dr. Weedon currently volunteers as an Ambassador for the Alliance for Rabies Control, where he lectures on rabies prevention, and in April, 2009, he was appointed to the Technical Advisory Committee of the ARC.

Dr. Weedon attended Purdue University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Animal Science in 1977 and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1981. He received his Master of Public Health in May, 2005 from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.