Staff and Faculty Q&A

Chris Dumas is a licensed veterinary technician with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s small animal surgery team.

Thea Leigh Lara is a nationally certified pharmacy technician at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. She and our pharmacy team work closely with our veterinarians and staff to provide safe and effective drug therapy to our animal patients.

Holly Cummings is a technician in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging Department, where she helps to support nearly every service in the hospital to diagnose patients and develop the best treatment plans.

Maliki Musa is a field assistant with Rabies Free Tanzania based out of Arusha. Why is it important to eliminate rabies? In my role as a field assistant, I conduct household surveys and evaluate the validation of rabies free vaccination campaigns. It is important to eliminate rabies since it can cause immediate death to human […]

Joel Changalucha is a PhD student working on his research with Rabies Free Tanzania.

Dr. Nickol Finch has been providing exceptional care for wildlife and exotic pets at Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital for more than two decades.

You will regularly interact with our veterinarians, technicians and fourth-year students while at the teaching hospital, but there are also teams of compassionate and highly trained people – like Materials Department manager Travis Burke – working behind the scenes to ensure all our patients receive exceptional care.

Our friendly patient services coordinators like Chelsea Jacobs are often the first people you interact with at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Chelsea has been with the Small Animal Orthopedic and Soft Tissue Surgery team for nearly two years.

Patient services coordinator Stephen Short’s dedication and passion for veterinary medicine and the hospital’s patients and clients is always on display.

Sarah joined the hospital’s emergency and critical care team in November of 2016 after she moved to Pullman from the west side of Washington.