About
Personal Summary - Motivated and hard-working individual with great interpersonal skills, striving for education and self-improvement in the field of veterinary medicine with personal interest in emergency, surgery and exotic animal medicine. Objective- To gain additional efficiency as an emergency veterinarian to aid in focusing my skills in medicine, surgery, and exotic animal care. Additional longterm goals to gain further knowledge and experience working with exotic, zoologic and wildlife species and surgical procedures.
Experience
Emergency Veterinarian
IVG Hospitals · North Andover, MA
- Working as an emergency veterinarian - Gaining increased proficiency in emergency medicine, ICU patient care, and medical management. Working with various other hospital departments on management of their cases overnight and in certain long term circumstances including internal medicine, surgery, ophthalmology, and work with our general practitioners. - Continued work with exotic species - reptiles, small mammals, and rare avian species. - Increasing proficiency in surgical skills, including wound management and laceration repair, enterotomy, gastrotomy, gastropexy, splenectomy, amputation, pyometra, emergency cesarean section and ovariohysterectomy, enucleation and aqueocentesis/glaucoma management, etc.
Veterinary Associate
VCA South Shore Animal Hospital · Weymouth, MA
- Rotating internship in small animal emergency, medicine and surgery - Primary responsibility on over 1000 patients - Triaged, diagnosed and managed numerous critical medical cases: chronic and acute renal failure, trauma, congestive heart failure, gastrointestinal obstruction and diseases, endocrine disorders, toxicities, respiratory distress, and neurologic diseases - Gained proficiency in emergency procedures: pericardial/thoracic/abdominal/arthrocentesis, urinary catheter placement and unblocking, GDV management and stabilization, CPR, etc. - Gained proficiency in surgical procedures: spay and neuters, laceration repair and drain placement, cystotomy, temporary tarsorrhaphy - Efficiently examined and treated patients in a general practice setting - Worked closely with specialists in internal medicine, neurology, ophthalmology, dermatology, surgery, cardiology, radiology, and exotics medicine to provide excellent, comprehensive care
Veterinary Preceptor Program
Disney's Animal Kingdom and The Seas at Epcot
-Zoologic medicine and pathology preceptor position -Performed numerous necropsies, aided in treatments of various animal species, was tested on critical thinking and problem solving of various animal disease states and conditions, and presented animal case reports
Veterinary Extern
Saint Louis Zoo · Saint Louis, MO
Externship teaching clinical aspects of zoo veterinary medicine, population health, preventative medicine, surgical skills, and species variation. Learning took place through observation and first-hand experience.
Veterinary Laboratory Assistant
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI
- Laboratory assistant under Dr. Gordon Mitchell, evaluating the effects of hypoxia and hypercapnia on the return of nervous function/delay of nervous tissue degeneration in ALS and spinal cord injury rats. - Laboratory assistant under Kathy O’Leary, examining the effects of mammary carcinoma within mice.
Education
University of Wisconsin - School of Veterinary Medicine
DVM, Veterinary Medicine
Envirovet Summer Institute (University of Illinois/University of California-Davis)
Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health
University of Wisconsin-Madison
BS, 1) Zoology, 2) Biologic Aspects of Conservation
Waupaca High School
Waupaca High School
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