VETERINARY
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ABOUT ME
I am a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM), Zoologist, and the 2020 Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) award winner for Veterinary Business Thought Leader of the Year. I am passionate about animal welfare and pet owner education.
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Prior to completing my DVM degree, I acquired two years of field and laboratory research experience. My past research focused on the geographic variation of sexual dimorphism amongst populations of the Northern Alligator lizard (Elgaria coerulea). I have presented my research at 8 conferences across the United States and in Costa Rica.
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After obtaining my bachelor's degree, I completed a research internship with Duke University and the Organization for Tropical Studies at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. My time in the tropics was spent researching the social organization of the Proboscis Bat (Rhynchonycteris naso), as well as determining if the bats exhibit individual signatures in their echolocation calls, and performing playback experiments using these calls. This work was published in Royal Science. I have developed a passion for Conservation Biology, given the great challenges humanity faces in terms of habitat destruction and loss of biological diversity, as well as the effects of climate change in further facilitating negative human impacts on the Biosphere.
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During vet school, I worked as a veterinary nurse and veterinary assistant at a bird and exotic animal clinic and a small animal emergency centre. I am now working as a veterinarian at a non-for-profit community-based charity which operates to re-home neglected and unwanted animals through their shelters and educate the community about responsible pet ownership through a private clinic.
