Dr. Lindsey Shields is the Director of Training of the Global Health Program at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Dr. Shields studied Animal Science as an undergraduate student at Virginia-Tech and earned her DVM degree from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in 2011, where she took the public-corporate track with a focus on Public Health and Epidemiology. Immediately after graduating, Dr. Shields began her career as a consultant for the Foo...

    

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Dr. Ashley Dunn is originally from Maryland’s Eastern Shore. While she grew up with lots of pets, she didn’t discover veterinary medicine until a life changing experience after her freshman year of college. She has a bachelor’s in Biology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and she attended the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. After graduating vet school in 2011, she practiced general small animal medicine in Lexington, Kentucky for a year before moving to New Hampshire. In 2013,

  

    

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In this special episode of the Voices of Veterinary Medicine podcast, my husband and I discuss:

* My husband’s history and how he got into medical school without a high school diploma (My husband is a genius and probably smarter than me, but with his educational history,

    

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Dr. Amanda Guthrie is the Senior Veterinary Officer overseeing the clinical program at the ZSL London Zoo (Dr. Guthrie calls it Zed-S-L), the world’s oldest scientific zoo which opened to the public in 1847. The zoo houses 10,000 invertebrate and 10,000 vertebrate animals. Dr. Guthrie overseas a team of two clinical veterinarians, one veterinary resident, four veterinary nurses, and various support staff. She also occasionally provides clinical cover for the

  

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Dr. David Thompson received his Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from Louisiana Tech University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1986. He earned his DVM degree  from Louisiana State University in 1989  and practiced as a small animal veterinarian for one year  before accepting a job with the

    

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Seth Williams is a third year veterinary student at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine with the goal of becoming a small animal practitioner. His path to a career in veterinary medicine was somewhat unorthodox. He began his undergraduate career as both a music and biology major with the hopes of going to medical school. But after several twists and turns in honing his passions and interests,