Emma Hewitt is a Registered Veterinary Technician who has been working in the shelter medicine field since she was 17 and participated in 49er ROP as a senior in high school. Her internship background includes Placer SPCA, Animal Save, Sacramento Veterinary Referral Center, San Francisco SPCA, and Yuba County Animal Care Services. Before joining the … Continue reading “Emma Hewitt, RVT, Surgical Support Technician”

Go from wishlist to implementation in less than 6 weeks!  This Bootcamp’s goal is to help your shelter team review current best practices and innovations in the Behavior, Training and Enrichment (BTE) space, then assess your own operations and programs and begin implementing changes to level up what you are doing and how you are doing it. … Continue reading “Behavior, Training and Enrichment (BTE) Bootcamp”

What are portals? Portals inexpensively join two adjacent cat cages into a spiffy double-compartment cat condo via a pass-through that can be shut for cleaning. Portals tend to be side-to-side. They can also be top-bottom. Either way, they’re better for cats, staff, and volunteers. Why should I use portals? Cage housing for cats (typically 2 … Continue reading “Portals: Opening the Door to Lifesaving”

Title: Shelter Medicine Resident Alumna 2008 Dr. Barbara Jones completed her residency training in July 2008. Dr. Jones’ interest in combining veterinary medicine with animal sheltering began when she began volunteering and working with various humane societies in the mid-1990’s. As a veterinary student, she founded a chapter of the Society for Veterinary Medical Ethics, and … Continue reading “Barbara Jones, DVM, MS”

Dr. Aziz grew up in Houston, Texas within a strong Bangladeshi-American community. Pet ownership and veterinary medicine were uncommon concepts growing up within her culture and it wasn’t until later in life that she was exposed to veterinary specialty medicine and eventually shelter medicine. Dr. Aziz found that shelter medicine encompassed everything she was interested … Continue reading “Mehnaz (Chumkee) Aziz, DVM, Outreach Veterinarian”

Our “Ask an Expert” shelter medicine question response system is a joint project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Shelter Medicine Program and University of California Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program. If you would like to submit an inquiry, please send an email to: sheltermedconsult@gmail.com. To assist us in providing the best information in response to your … Continue reading “Ask an Expert”

Title: Assistant Professor, Pathologist Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology 1120B Haring Hall School of Veterinary Medicine University of California Davis, CA 95616 Phone: 530-752-1166 Fax: 530-752-3349 E-mail: papesavento@ucdavis.edu Biography: Patty Pesavento received her BA at Swarthmore, and her PhD from Harvard University. She received her DVM from UC Davis in 2000, and completed a pathology residency at UC … Continue reading “Patty Pesavento, DVM, PhD”