DVM Stories

Once she earns her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Veronica Martin plans to work at a small animal general practice in Austin, Texas.

Every other Saturday at noon in Seattle, WSU veterinary students and alumni are among those providing dozens of pets and their owners with veterinary care the animals would otherwise go without.

Savannah Norton is nearing her childhood goal of becoming a veterinarian. She has accepted a job with Veterinary Emergency Group.

Tovah Yenna is using the persistence the military instilled in her serving as an aviation mechanic in Iraq to pursue a career as a veterinarian at WSU.

Dane Schwartz is looking to work at a rural mixed animal practice. He’s interested in theriogenology and would like to focus on offering comparative theriogenology services.

Jonathon Stott plans to return to his home state of Utah next summer and has signed a contract at a mixed animal practice in Roosevelt.

Josie Wray may be headed right back to her hometown of Boise to work at Hendricks Veterinary Hospital, a small animal general practice, after graduation. Referred to by some of her classmates as a “Wray of sunshine,” she is eager to foster the human-animal bond.

Maria Stogioglou will be headed to Chicago when she graduates to work in small animal general practice and equine medicine.

Fourth-year veterinary student Claudia LaBianca was drawn to veterinary medicine because she is fascinated by gross stuff. She also wants to be a voice for animals that don’t have one.

After her time at WSU, Kyra Goldhardt wants to enroll in an emergency medicine mentorship program and eventually transition to being a full-time shelter veterinarian.