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Program for Veterinary Family Practice
Center for Continuing Professional Education
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California, Davis
Credential Course in Veterinary Family Practice
Faculty/Presenters
Module 1
Melissa Bain, DVM, DACVB
Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Melissa Bain earned her DVM degree from the University of Illinois. Following small animal and mixed animal private practice in Illinois and Wisconsin, she completed a residency in Clinical Animal Behavior at UC Davis. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists in 2001. As a member of the faculty at UC Davis, she teaches veterinary students and residents, sees clinical cases and carries out behavioral research. Dr. Bain's main interests include clinical domestic animal behavior problems and human-animal bond issues, including research on dog parks.
Thomas Catanzaro, DVM, MHA, FACHE, DACHE
Veterinary Practice Consultants/Catanzaro & Associates, Colorado
Tom Catanzaro earned his DVM degree from Colorado State University. Dr. Catanzaro leads the largest veterinary-exclusive, diplomate-led consulting team in the United States, serving more than 3,000 practices. He has authored or co-authored eleven veterinary management and leadership textbooks since 1997.
Angela Hughes, DVM
 Angela Hughes received her BS degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Reed College in 1997 and her DVM degree from UC Davis in 2002. She then completed a one-year rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Sacramento Animal Medical Group, and a three-year veterinary genetics residency at UC Davis. Dr. Hughes is pursuing her PhD in genetics examining the genetic basis of hypoadrenocorticism (Addison's disease) in Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers. She has also contributed chapters for publication in Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice: Pediatrics and Large Animal Internal Medicine. Her special interests include small animal and equine genetics and small animal reproduction.
Sally Perea, MS, DVM
Associate veterinarian and assistant clinical professor, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
After earning both her DVM degree and MS in nutrition from UC Davis, Sally Perea completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at VCA Berwyn and Aurora Animal Hospitals. She also completed a residency in small animal clinical nutrition at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, UC Davis. She is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Nutritionists and is currently a consultant with Davis Veterinary Medical Consulting, which specializes in nutritional consulting for the pet food industry.
Cheryl Scott, RN, DVM, MPVM
Director, One Medicine Program, Office of Student Programs, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
As a nurse practitioner in human medicine, Cheryl Scott carried out a public health internship in the San Francisco Hispanic community and became experienced in emergency and critical care. She served with the International Red Cross in Cambodia 1980 during the Pol Pot war and was the United States national spokesperson for IRC disaster medicine. She then directed operations for seven urgent care clinics and was a lecturer at the Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Scott earned a DVM degree from UC Davis in 1994, and began her veterinary career in a small animal medical hospital, then transitioned to critical care and wildlife medicine. She completed a Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine (MPVM) degree from UC Davis in 2006, and she continues to practice wildlife, emergency and pet hospice veterinary medicine. With her background in One Medicine—One Health, Dr. Scott leads the school's efforts to attract students with diverse backgrounds and career interests to the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Richard Timmins, DVM
Manager, Program for Veterinary Family Practice, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Since his graduation from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 1977, Richard Timmins' professional experience has included private practice, industry and academia.
In 2003, Dr. Timmins joined the School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, as director of the Center for Animals in Society, and in 2007, he became manager of the Program for Veterinary Family Practice. Dr. Timmins has been active in local and state veterinary organizations in Oregon and California, and he is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the International Society for Anthrozoology, the Association for Human-Animal Bond Veterinarians (Board of Directors, 2004-07; president, 2006-07), and the Association for Veterinary Family Practice (Board of Directors, 2006-08; president, 2007-08). He has spoken internationally on canine and feline nutrition, veterinary practice management, communication and the human-animal bond.
Module 2
Donald Klingborg, DVM
Associate dean, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Don Klingborg oversees Veterinary Medicine Extension, with its faculty at Davis and the Tulare field station, and the Office of Public Programs, which involves legislative relations and interfacing with national, state, and local veterinary organizations. He also serves as director of the Center for Continuing Professional Education, and until recently was on the Steering Committee for the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense. He is course leader or co-leader for six courses and is a frequent guest lecturer in both the DVM and MPVM curricula.
Dr. Klingborg earned his DVM degree from UC Davis in 1972. He spent a year in advanced clinical studies in large animal medicine and surgery at Colorado State University, and was in private clinical practice in Merced, California from 1973 to 1993. He served as president of Atwater-Merced Veterinary Clinics, Inc., providing care for dairy, beef, small ruminant, horse, and companion animals from three different facilities in Merced County. He is an internationally recognized dairy veterinarian who has consulted or made presentations on topics relating to dairy herd health and performance throughout the United States and globally.
Dr. Klingborg has been honored by the American Association of Bovine Practitioners as Bovine Practitioner of the Year; the California Veterinary Medical Association with Distinguished Life Membership; the School of Veterinary Medicine with its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award; and his community—the City of Atwater and the City & County of Merced—as Agribusiness Man of the Year. Dr. Klingborg was the first veterinarian to receive a fellowship in the California Ag Leadership program (Class XVIII), which he credits with catalyzing his move from private clinical practice to the larger arena of the University of California and national veterinary organizations.
Suzanne M. Kurtz, PhD
Clinical professor and director of Clinical Communication, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University
Suzanne Kurtz was professor of communication, joint appointed in the Faculties of Education and Medicine, University of Calgary, from 1976 through 2005. In 2006 she joined the faculty of Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Focusing her career on improving communication practices in health care and education and on developing curricula and methods for teaching and learning communication skills, she has worked with a variety of groups: medical and education students, residents, practicing physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, patient groups, veterinarians and students of veterinary medicine, teachers, and administrators in health and education.
For 27 years she directed the undergraduate communication curriculum in Calgary's Faculty of Medicine and has consulted nationally and internationally at all levels of medical education regarding the specifics of setting up effective communication programs for medical students, residents, faculty and staff. In 1998 she began working with colleagues in the Ontario Veterinary College to pioneer communication programs for veterinary medicine. Currently she is directing development of Washington State University's communication program for veterinarians and veterinary students. She has served as advisor to the Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication, Cancer Care Ontario's Communication Task Force, and Health Canada's Canadian Breast Cancer Initiative. She was appointed to the task force that initially developed Calgary's innovative inquiry-based Master of Teaching program.
Currently she is a consulting member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's national CanMEDS Phase IV Communicator Working Group, the Medical Council of Canada's Executive Committee for the National Strategy for Physician Communication Skills Assessment and Enhancement, and Pfizer Animal Health's 'Frank' communication project. Working across diverse cultural and disciplinary lines, she has collaborated on communication program development, team building, and conflict management in education, law and business, and has served on several international development projects related to health and education in Nepal, Southeast Asia and South Africa.
Richard Timmins, DVM
(See Dr. Timmins' bio, above.)
Module 3
Lisa M. Greenhill, MPA
Associate Executive Director for Diversity, AAVMC
Lisa Greenhill was appointed Associate Executive Director for Diversity for the Association of American Veterinary Medical College (AAVMC) in 2004. Her work focuses on the ongoing development and implementation of the DVM: DiVersity Matters initiative at the national and local levels as well as promoting the veterinary medical profession within communities of color. Her specific area of interest is the exploration of how diversity dimensions impact veterinary medical practice as well as how those dimensions impact career choice in the health sciences. Ms. Greenhill holds membership and officer positions in numerous national organizations devoted to increasing access to education and the promotion of diversity in the health professions, including the National Association of Minority Medical Educators. Ms. Greenhill previously served nearly five years with the AAVMC during which time she managed legislative and regulatory policy issues including agriculture production, biomedical research, professional education, food safety and environmental health.
Prior to holding her current position, Ms. Greenhill was the Legislative Manager for the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), a not-for-profit organization that promotes the health of women and newborns. In this role, she was responsible for coordinating AWHONN's varied legislative and regulatory activities. During her tenure with AWHONN, she led the organization in developing a legislative priority dealing with environmental health as it relates to both women and children. She also served as the coordinating chair of the Friends of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), an advocacy coalition bridging the environmental health interests of nearly 50 organizations including patient groups, environmentalists, educators and health care providers. She continues her work on environmental health policy by serving on the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council with a term ending in September, 2008.
Ms. Greenhill holds an MPA with a concentration in public policy from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.
Richard Meadows, DVM
Director of Community Practice, University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Meadows was raised around a mixed animal practice in the panhandle of Texas. He received his DVM degree from TAMU in 1981. He has done dairy practice and relief work, and he managed a multi-person small animal practice in Texas for a decade. He became certified in canine and feline medicine and surgery in 1990, completed a three-year clinical pathology residency at the University of Wisconsin in 1994 and a two-year NIH-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship in inflammatory pathology at a human medical school in San Antonio, Texas in 1996. He re-entered small animal practice after that and then started his present position as Director of the Community Practice at the University of Missouri, College of Veterinary Medicine (MU CVM) in 1999.
In his time at the MU CVM he has received several CVM teaching awards including the Norden Distinguished Teacher Award, two MU campus wide awards (William T. Kemper Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and the Governor's Teaching Award) and was recognized as the Leo. K. Bustad Companion Animal Practitioner of the Year in 2006. He is active in organized veterinary medicine and appreciates the opportunity he has to affect his future colleagues by teaching in a College of Veterinary Medicine.
Marcia L. Merryman, DVM, MPVM
Private practitioner in feline shelter medicine
After receiving her DVM from Oregon State University in 1986, Dr. Merryman practiced in Eugene, Oregon, where she owned a Veterinary Family Practice limited to cats, birds and reptiles. In 2004, she accepted a position as a veterinary analyst with the Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. In 2008, she was awarded the Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine degree at UC Davis, with an emphasis on zoonoses and public health. Currently, Dr. Merryman is the lead veterinarian at a large feline shelter north of Seattle, Washington, and is a member of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
Lila Miller, DVM
Vice President of Veterinary Outreach and Veterinary Advisor to the ASPCA; Adjunct Professor at U. Penn and Cornell U.
Dr. Lila Miller is a graduate of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. She is currently the Vice President of Veterinary Outreach and Veterinary Advisor to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Adjunct Professor at U Penn and Cornell. She has over 25 years of experience working in the field of shelter medicine, and started the first course in shelter medicine for veterinarians at Cornell University. She is the co editor of the first textbook on shelter medicine entitled Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff. She travels and lectures extensively about shelter medicine and anti- cruelty topics at various universities, conferences and on the Internet.
She received the 2008 AVMA Animal Welfare Award, 2005 Hills Animal Welfare and Humane Ethics award from the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), in addition to awards from the American Humane Association and the Veterinary Medical Association of New York City. She is currently a member of the National Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners and co-founder and past president of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians. She is a past member of the New York State Board for Veterinary Medicine, and has served on numerous other boards and is a member of numerous professional associations.
Evan M. Morse, DVM, MS
A graduate of Tuskegee Institute and one of the first African American veterinarians in the state of Ohio, Dr. Morse is the founding president of Warrensville Animal Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He is also cofounder of the Free Animal Clinic Team (FACT), a consortium of veterinarians providing free animal care to needy pet owners throughout Greater Cleveland since 1976. For many years, Dr. Morse was staff veterinarian for WEWS News Channel 5 and WJW-TV Fox 8 News in Cleveland, Ohio. He was recently featured in the PBS Nature television program, "DOGS: The Early Years."
Dr. Morse served as president of the Cleveland Academy of Veterinary Medicine and has published articles in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association. He has provided veterinary services to animals at Sea World, the Cleveland Aquarium, Hiram House and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, along with functioning as the veterinarian for numerous police departments. Dr. Morse served as chairman of the Diversity Committee of the Ohio Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA). He is also a past member of the Task Force on Diversity of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), and chaired and presented at the 2005–2009 AVMA Veterinary Diversity Symposiums. Recently, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the OVMA "for exemplary service, vision, and dedication in fostering a veterinary community of inclusion." Dr. Morse also lectured on cultural competence, diversity and inclusion at the schools of veterinary medicine at Kansas State University, The Ohio State University and Tuskegee University.
Dr. Morse attended the University of Virginia and holds a BS degree in Animal Science and DVM degree from Tuskegee Institute. In 2007, he received a Master's Degree in Psychology with a Specialization in Diversity Management from Cleveland State University. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Morse and his wife, Randi, are the parents of two daughters, Natalie and Halle.
Richard Timmins, DVM
(See Dr. Timmins' bio, above.)
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