Pre-Veterinary Program

Meet Our Alumni

• <span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/1914-"><picture class="lw_image"><source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/46,207,430,591/3448_Erin_Griffin.rev.1520282800.webp 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/46,207,430,591/3448_Erin_Griffin.rev.1520282800.jpg 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><img src="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/46,207,430,591/3448_Erin_Griffin.rev.1520282800.jpg" alt="Veterinary medical student, Erin Griffin, E&H '13, with a puppy in a dinosaur costume." width="345" height="225" data-max-w="384" data-max-h="384" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></a></span><div class="lw_widget_text"><h4 class="lw_profiles_headline"><a href="/live/profiles/1914-"><p> Erin Griffin, E&H ’13, is completing her veterinary medicine degree. </p></a></h4><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Erin Griffin, a native of Saltville, Virginia, is in her last year of veterinary school at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. This is one of only 28 veterinary medicine colleges in the United States and is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Council on Education and the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International. The school is considered a constituent college of both Virginia Tech and the University of Maryland<a title="University of Maryland, College Park" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park">,</a> with a main campus located on Virginia Tech’s campus in Blacksburg, and a branch on the University of Maryland’s campus in College Park. </p><p> She has passed the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination and looks forward to graduating in May of 2018. She hopes to eventually establish her own practice in Southwest Virginia.</p></div><a href="/live/profiles/1914-" class="link-with-arrow gold">Keep reading</a></div>
• <span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/1069-"><picture class="lw_image"><source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/10/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,819,1026/1436_AnnaHill.rev.1511978808.webp 2x" data-origin="responsive"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/10/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,819,1026/1436_AnnaHill.rev.1511978808.jpg 2x" data-origin="responsive"/><img src="/live/image/gid/10/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,819,1026/1436_AnnaHill.rev.1511978808.jpg" alt="Anna Hill, working with the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association (HSVMA) Remote Area Veterinary Services (RAVS) program on a Nat..." width="345" height="225" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/10/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/0,0,819,1026/1436_AnnaHill.rev.1511978808.jpg 2x" data-max-w="819" data-max-h="1026" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></a></span><div class="lw_widget_text"><h4 class="lw_profiles_headline"><a href="/live/profiles/1069-"><p> Veterinary student Anna Hill (2014) works with the Center for Animal and Human Health in Appalachia (CAHA).</p></a></h4><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> I graduated from Emory & Henry in 2014 with a major in Biology and minor in Chemistry and am currently a third year vet student at Lincoln Memorial University College of Veterinary Medicine in Harrogate, TN. Although much of my time is spent in the classroom learning the fundamentals (everything from anatomy and physiology to medical and surgical techniques) for a variety of animal species, much of my curriculum is hands-on through the labs in my clinical and professional skills courses. Starting at the beginning of first semester I was learning how to do physical exams on both large and small animal patients. During that time, we also began working on our motor skills, doing things like stacking beads and tying knots with surgical instruments to work on dexterity and motor skills. This past (fifth) semester, I have been able to put all those skills and knowledge into practice, performing full physical exams, determining anesthetic protocols, and completing surgeries on our partnering shelter animals that have gone on to be adopted. I have also gotten to work with our larger resident teaching animals, doing things such as performing lameness and neurologic exams on horses and pregnancy checks in our herd of Jersey cows. Many people don’t realize that all veterinarians learn about and are knowledgeable about all kinds of animals, regardless of what species they intend on working with.</p><p> This summer (2017), I worked on a research project through the Center for Animal and Human Health in Appalachia (CAHA), based here at LMU-CVM, which examined the role of One Health in in rural Appalachia, specifically eastern Kentucky. Part of LMU-CVM’s mission statement includes service to the Appalachian region, something I can really appreciate as a graduate of Emory & Henry where service to community is so heavily emphasized. I don’t have any specific plans for after graduation at the moment but I would love to stay in rural Appalachia and practice mixed animal medicine. I am looking forward to completing my didactic learning here on campus and starting my fourth year full of clinical rotations at veterinary clinics across the country. I’m excited to be closer to my childhood dream of being a veterinarian and using my knowledge and skills to serve my community.</p></div><a href="/live/profiles/1069-" class="link-with-arrow gold">Keep reading</a></div>
• <span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/1947-"><picture class="lw_image"><source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/142,366,693,917/3468_ross.rev.1520456379.webp 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/142,366,693,917/3468_ross.rev.1520456379.jpg 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><img src="/live/image/gid/68/width/345/height/225/crop/1/src_region/142,366,693,917/3468_ross.rev.1520456379.jpg" alt="Ross Ellis, E&H Class of 2013." width="345" height="225" data-max-w="551" data-max-h="551" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></a></span><div class="lw_widget_text"><h4 class="lw_profiles_headline"><a href="/live/profiles/1947-"><p> Ross Ellis is a doctor of veterinary medicine in Chattanooga, Tennessee.</p></a></h4><div class="lw_profiles_description"><div class="_h8t"><div class="_5wd9 direction_ltr"><div class="_5wde _n4o"><div class="_5w1r _3_om _5wdf"><div class="_4gx_"><div class="_d97"><span class="_5yl5">Dr. Ross Ellis is a 2013 Emory & Henry grad who graduated from the veterinary school at the University of Tennessee. He is now working as a small animal emergency veterinarian at a referral hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee.</span></div><div class="_d97"></div><div class="_d97"><span class="_5yl5">While at Emory Ross was a member of the football team, president of the blue key honor society, and was a resident advisor in Wiley Jackson residence Hall. </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><a href="/live/profiles/1947-" class="link-with-arrow gold">Keep reading</a></div>