Do you love designing and creating online learning experiences that thoroughly engage and excite busy professionals who are passionate about their work? Are you experienced at developing courses with adult users in mind that don’t feel like required training assigned by your HR department? If this is you, bring your UX experience over here and join our team … Continue reading “Private: Apply to Be Our Online Learning Designer”
Sarah spent her early life dancing barefoot among the trees in a small California country town accompanied by her pet rats, cats, dogs, and a pony. She loved expressing herself artistically through many mediums and was passionate about animals, nature, and science. She pursued a career in dance from an early age but shifted her … Continue reading “”
Sarah spent her early life dancing barefoot among the trees in a small California country town accompanied by her pet rats, cats, dogs, and a pony. She loved expressing herself artistically through many mediums and was passionate about animals, nature, and science. She pursued a career in dance from an early age but shifted her … Continue reading “Sarah Reiwitch, Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge Instructional Designer”
This month Samantha Hobson published “Examining potential impacts of Capacity for Care (C4C) as a strategy to manage shelter cat populations” as a Master’s Thesis at the University of Guelph, Ontario. The concept of Capacity for Care (C4C) forms the core of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program’s shelter management philosophy. When a shelter operates within … Continue reading “New Study Adds to Evidence that Capacity for Care Improves Shelter Ops”
A couple of years ago, Dr. Cristie Kamiya, Chief of Shelter Medicine at Humane Society Silicon Valley and Koret Shelter Medicine Program alumna, had an ambitious idea: meet all 543 “must, should, and ideal” guidelines in the Association of Shelter Veterinarians’ 2010 “Guidelines to Standards of Care in Animal Shelters” white paper. In order to … Continue reading “KSMP Verifies Humane Society Silicon Valley as First-Ever Model Shelter”
Andy comes to us via the San Francisco SPCA, where he spent five years as webmaster, copywriter, and designer. Here at the KSMP, he designed, built and maintains the sheltermedicine.com website you’re looking at right now. See a problem? Please let him know! His other responsibilities include writing copy for the website and promotional materials, … Continue reading “Andy Cowitt, Marketing and Communications Specialist”
Two major studies co-authored by the Koret Shelter Medicine Program’s Drs. Denae Wagner and Kate Hurley, along with Dr. Jenny Stavisky from the University of Nottingham, were published today by The Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery (JFMS). Shelter housing for cats 1: Principles of design for health, welfare and rehoming, lays out the current … Continue reading “Drs. Wagner and Hurley Publish Pair of Studies of the Effects of Housing on Shelter Cat Health, Well-Being, and Adoption”
Do you have a passion for helping to create and build online learning communities? Do you love both the people in the animal welfare industry and the animals they are trying to help? Does the idea of being on a small but mighty team dedicated to online learning in this space sound exciting? We have … Continue reading “Private: Apply to Be Our Learning Coordinator”
Miranda Will joined the Koret Shelter Medicine program as a Learning Coordinator in February of 2022. Miranda joins us from the world of education. She taught agriculture and science for 7 years at the high school level before joining the KSMP team. Her roles within the KSMP include planning and coordinating all things online learning, … Continue reading “Miranda Will, Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge Learning Coordinator”
A Canine Influenza outbreak at two Oakland, California shelters is being managed by the Shelter Medicine program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), directed by former Koret Shelter Medicine Program faculty member, Dr. Sandra Newbury. Alerted to the possibility of an outbreak, the Koret Shelter Medicine Program’s Dr. Cindy Karsten reached … Continue reading “UW Shelter Medicine Program Helps Contain Canine Influenza Outbreak”
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