LEESBURG, VA. —M. Norris Adams, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, joined Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center as a clinical assistant professor in equine lameness and surgery, focusing on elective orthopedic procedures.

A former clinical assistant instructor in large-animal surgery at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Blacksburg, Va., he has been in private practice in northern Virginia the last eight years. He earned his DVM degree at Mississippi State University in 1992.