My Veterinary Life

“and Dr. Mayer pulled out this massive jug of peanut butter and they stick to a pole and they stick it into the cage and the bear smelled the peanut butter and just immediately woke up and started licking the peanut butter.”Our guest today is Bryce Golsen. Bryce is currently a student at the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He reached out to us to share his experience with research opportunities as a veterinary student. Learn how he first decided to take the leap into research and why he feels it is so important in veterinary medicine. We also loved hearing how his passions and career goals have changed throughout veterinary school. We shares the important role mentorship and community building has played in his life. We can’t wait to share this journey with you!Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org You can also follow us on Social Media @AVMAVets #My

“Be a reasonable freaking human being, and it doesn’t seem like it should be a hard bar to fit, but I am often surprised when I encounter people who don’t meet that. And that is, you know, just be nice to people and don’t be dramatic and just take life as it is and just be a reasonable freaking human being”Our guest today is Dr. Erik Hofmeister. Dr. Hofmeister is a professor of Anesthesiology at Auburn University and has had an incredible career so far. As someone who is committed to life-long learning, it is no surprise that his credentials are quite impressive! On top of being board certified in anesthesiology, he also has a master’s in public health education and promotion as well as a masters in sport pedagogy. He is also the creator and editor of the vetducator blog (link below). Even with all his professional roles and volunteer roles, he still finds time to pursue his passion, which may surprise you. We can’t wait to share this journey with you!Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subsc

“I had to actually to put into practice all of these things that I had learned in veterinary school that I didn’t necessarily think I would use. And I think it built my confidence pretty early in my practice experience”Our guest today is Dr. Heather Case. Dr. Case received her DVM from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. She didn’t stop there. She also has her Master’s in Public Health, is a diplomate for the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and a Certified Association Executive. She did all this while also exploring some amazing career opportunities throughout veterinary medicine. Following an internship at the University of Guelph, she was in private practice. She has also been an AAAS Science and Technology Fellow, worked for the AVMA and is currently the Chief Executive Officer at the International Council for Veterinary Assessment. She has accomplished so much and yet is one of the most down to earth, inspiring, generous and optimistic people you will meet. We ca

“I’ve decided that since we are friends, I can hijack your podcast for just a moment and instead I would love to play with you guys two truths and a lie veterinary version”Our guest today is Dr. Emily Tincher. Dr. Tincher is a 2016 graduate from Auburn University. After veterinary school she pursued an internship with the intention of going on and practicing emergency medicine. Beyond clinical practice, she also volunteers her time with the Veterinary Business Management Association, the AVMA’s Early Career Development Committee as well as the Veterinary Leadership Institute. Throughout the episode you will learn why she prioritizes opportunities like this. We had a blast chatting with her and lost track of time but be sure to stick with us until the end where she flips the script on us, and we play a fun game in the end of podcast questions. We can’t wait to share her journey with you!Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and revie

“I mean really anything could happen, I could be a relief vet. That’s the beauty of being a veterinarian is you can really do anything and you can reinvent yourself at any point in your career. And that’s the best part of being a veterinarian.”Our guest today is Dr. Jenn Bornkamp. Dr. Bornkamp is a 2009 graduated from Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. After veterinary school she pursued a large animal internship at Iowa State and went on further to complete a residency in Anesthesia at the University of Florida. Dr. Bornkamp is currently an associate doctor at Pittsburgh Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center, specializing in anesthesia. We had a very open and honest conversation and were so grateful she was willing to share her story, including some of her challenges. We can’t wait to share her journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org You can

“I had no idea what public health was until the first couple weeks of vet school. I knew that I wanted to be a veterinarian. When I started vet school, I thought I was either going to be a wildlife vet or an equine vet. Which probably will sound familiar to many of your listeners because I think a lot of us started out thinking things like that”Our guest today is Dr. Katharyn Kryda. Dr. Kryda is a 2011 graduate from University of Illinois. Her career journey has taken her where no veterinarian has gone before, and we really couldn’t ask for a better advocate and ambassador for the profession. She shares with us how she got to where she is today, which *spoiler alert* was not how she initially set out to do things, but ultimately worked out perfectly for her. We learned so much throughout this conversation and can’t wait to share her journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPod

"Prioritize your safety at all times. Even if that means you have to have an uncomfortable conversation of ‘I don’t feel comfortable doing this’ because there is likely somebody else in your environment that feels the same way and is just waiting for someone to be that safety champion. So I encourage folks to be that safety champion, to prioritize their safety.”Our guest today is Dr. Heather Fowler. Dr. Fowler is a 2010 graduate from University of Pennsylvania. She also has her Master’s in Public Health from Yale School of Public Health and a PHD in Environmental and Occupational Hygiene from University of Washington. We had a great time talking about the importance of safety in veterinary medicine and her amazing career that is only just getting started! We learned so much throughout this conversation and can’t wait to share her journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodca

Welcome to another special episode of My Veterinary Life Podcast. We are so excited to bring you the final installment of our mini-series focused on Women Leaders in the Pet Health Industry. Today’s guest is Dr. Laura Pletz. Dr. Pletz is the Scientific Services Manager, Eastern Region for Royal Canin. She also helped develop the Royal Canin Women’s Veterinary Leadership Forum. We talk about what inspired the creation of the forum and what our major takeaways were from our experience in Washington D.C. Dr. Pletz has so many great ideas and insights and we can’t wait to share this journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org You can also follow us on Social Media @AVMAVets #MyVetLife #MVLPodcast

“I think I was sort of Vice President of the class. And my primary role senior year was setting up the vet school happy hour and so I think I took it on mostly because Kinkos was right next to Dairy Queen and Thursday was dollar blizzard night and that’s when I would go up and get blizzards and photo copy the signs to paste all of the vet school that showed where we were to get together on Friday nights”Our guest today is Dr. Billy Griswold. Dr. Griswold is a member of the University of Florida’s class of 1999. If you’ve been with us from the beginning, you know that we are a huge fan of this class and have had several of its members on our show before. If you missed those episodes be sure to check out the ones with Drs. Mia Cary, Kemba Marshall, Lauren Davidson, Craig Fletcher, and Stephanie Jones. They all have incredible stories and Dr. Griswold is no different. We had a blast hearing about his career and why connections and networks are so important. He shares so many great insights throughout the conver

“The future is unknown in terms of my career there, but I’m actually very excited about it. It’s also very nerve-racking, you know like we mentioned before income is always good and I always need something to do. I’m not an idler at all” Our guest today is Dr. Kelly DeBaene. Dr. DeBaene is a 2011 graduate from the University of Illinois. Since graduation she has had an incredible career. She completed her Master’s in Public Health through the University of Chicago. After that she moved to the west coast where she has held various clinical roles, started an organization to help homeless and low-income families care for their pets and pursued positions in the Public Health space. Her current roles include Manager of Santa Cruz County Public Health’s Communicable Disease Unit, Veterinarian and founder of Healthy Pets for All and relief veterinarian at various clinics in the Santa Cruz area. We dig into all of this and learn so much through our discussion. Dr. DeBaene truly inspired us throughout this episode. S

Welcome to another special episode of My Veterinary Life Podcast. We are so excited to bring your part two of our mini-series focused on Women Leaders in the Pet Health Industry. Today’s guest is Dr. Carolyn Henry. Dr. Henry is currently the Dean at University of Missouri College of Veterinary medicine. We had an incredible conversation with her and gained so many tips and tricks about navigating a professional career. So much of what she shared really resonated with us and we can’t wait to share this journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org You can also follow us on Social Media @AVMAVets #MyVetLife #MVLPodcast

“So, I think from a very young age, I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian. There was this weird year where I decided I wanted to be a taxi drive and I don’t know where that came from, but there was that off year where I put my veterinary dreams on hold to pursue being a taxi drive.”Our guest today is Dr. Jeff Olivarez. Dr. Olivarez is currently a first-year resident in the Vet Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine field at Iowa State University. During his time in veterinary school, Jeff was served as SAVMA president. He shares with us how he decided to pursue these roles and what he has learned along the way. This episode is full of a lot of insight, a lot of fun and a lot of laughter! We are so excited to share this journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org You can also follow us on Social Media @AVMAVets #MyVetLife #MVLPodcast

“There was an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 associated with people eating tiger meat sandwiches or cannibal sandwiches. It’s not actually tiger, it’s not tiger meat but that’s what we heard, so when we are at the health department, we saw some lab report coming in of the same strain of O157:H7 and that triggers us to initiate some kind of investigation” Our guest today is Dr. Abbey Canon. Dr. Canon is a 2011 graduate from the Iowa State University. She is currently the director of communications for the American Association of Swine Veterinarians. Throughout this episode, we talk about her time on a dude range, how she earned her Master’s in Public Health and spent some time as a ‘Disease Detective’ with the CDC. She shares with us lessons from her time as an instructor at Iowa State University and what is was like to have an amazing role with the Center for Food Security and Public Health. We even touch on how motherhood has changed her outlook on her career. Dr. Canon is full of so many great stories and word

This is a special episode of My Veterinary Life Podcast. We are embarking on a three-part series focused on Women Leaders in the Pet Health Industry. Today’s guests are two truly inspiring women. We are so excited to share the stories of Dr. Jennifer Welser and Kamie Eckert. Dr. Welser is currently the Chief Medical Officer at Mars Veterinary Health and Kamie is the President and General Manager of Royal Canin USA. We learn what brought them to their current roles and their views on leadership. This episode is full of great advice and insights. We had a blast chatting with them and are so excited to share this journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org You can also follow us on Social Media @AVMAVets #MyVetLife #MVLPodcastThroughout the episode we reference an article about Kamie that was featured in Authority magazine. You can find it here: https://medium.com/a

“You just develop a sense of confidence, that you’ve handled a lot of really big complicated problems in the past and you develop a sense of confidence that no matter what you run into, you’ve got a good network of people you rely on, to call on for advice, and you kind of trust yourself, you’re going to be able to figure it out.”Our guest today is Dr. Robert Trimble. Dr. Trimble is a 2013 graduate from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. Since graduation he has been extremely busy, moving across country, working as a clinician, or co-founding a company and most recently stepping into the role of Director at the Veterinary Entrepreneurship Academy. He’s fit a lot into just a short amount of time, and he is happy to share the lessons he has learned along the way. We are so excited to share this journey with you. Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org Yo

“I said I’m a veterinarian. And so then I asked ‘Does everyone know what that is?’ And then I looked at the girl and said, ‘If I brought my dog to you would you play with him?’ And that frown turned upside down and she smiled. And when I tell you the lightbulb turned on for me. I immediately left and went over to the director and I was like ‘Do you guys do career day here what do you do? I need to come and talk about veterinary medicine and bring my dog’.”Our guest today is Dr. Stephanie Jones. Dr. Jones is a member of the University of Florida class of 1999. We have heard from previous classmates of hers about their incredible careers and hers is no different. She shares about her journey throughout veterinary medicine and what it was like to found and start an organization, Pets Help the Heart Heal which helps introduce veterinary medicine to diverse communities. Her stories make us laugh and at times almost cry and we cannot wait to share this journey with you. Remember we want to hear from you! Please be

“That night we all had headlamps on as we’re going around trying to do the things we were doing with the patients… and we came together”Our guest today is Dr. Erick Mears. Dr. Mears shares with us insights and wisdom he has gained throughout his very fulfilling career in veterinary medicine. We cover everything from internships, mentors, relationships with veterinary colleagues and even hurricanes. We pack a lot in and cannot wait to share this journey with you. Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. It really does help others find our show. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org You can also follow us on Social Media @AVMAVets #MyVetLife #MVLPodcastInterested in reading Dr. Mears’ article on hurricane preparedness? Follow this link: https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane-guide/Hurricane-2018-What-a-veterinarian-learned-from-Irma_168126406/

“Then I work up on a Sunday Morning, about five weeks ago and something that I was doing outside of my job that was giving me that sense of purpose and that unparalleled sense of happiness was the road trip that I had been taking with my now 89 year old grandmother around the United States. That story, much to my surprise much to my grandma joy’s surprise, that story went viral.”Our guest today is Dr. Brad Ryan. Dr. Ryan has been featured in many news stories recently about his travels with his Grandma Joy. He has had an incredible career and it is only just beginning. He has big goals for the impact he will have on the veterinary profession. While he has had his ups and downs throughout his career, he always walked away with a valuable lesson and proof that he was stronger than he ever imagined. This is a fun and incredible interview and we cannot wait to share this journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and revie

“When I realized that I couldn’t be an alligator my Dad had sort of introduced me to the idea of veterinary medicine through my great uncle” Our guest today is Dr. Mike Robbins. Dr. Robbins’ current role is as Scientific Communication Specialist with Hill’s Pet Nutrition. We had a blast getting to know Mike and how he arrived at this particular job. We learn about his residency in nutrition and what steps he took to get there. We cover everything from alligators to platypus to nutrition to cars and we cannot wait to share this journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org You can also follow us on Social Media @AVMAVets #MyVetLife #MVLPodcast

“I loved horses and I wanted to ride and my parents convinced me that if I became a veterinarian I would have time to ride, which was so not true” Our guest today is Dr. Jennifer MacLeay. Dr. MacLeay is the Medical Director for Hill’s Pet Nutrition. She has a fascinating career filled with a lot of research and a lot of credentials and get this, she isn’t done yet! At the time of the recording she was weeks away from earning her MBA. We really enjoyed our chat with Dr. MacLeay and learned so much. We cannot wait to share this journey with you! Remember we want to hear from you! Please be sure to subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts and leave us a ratings and review. You can also contact us at MVLPodcast@avma.org You can also follow us on Social Media @AVMAVets #MyVetLife #MVLPodcast