CV

Awards/scholarships:

2018/2019:

• J.J. (Jack) Andrich Graduate Award in Large Animal Infectious Disease
• OVC fellowship

2017/2018:

• Dr. R.A. McIntosh Graduate Award
• OVC scholarship

Graduate courses:

• Epidemiology 1
• Epidemiology 2 (Quantitative epidemiology)
• Epidemiology 3 (Longitudinal data analysis and geospatial epidemiology)
• Dairy Health Management
• Qualitative research methods
• graduate seminar course

Graduate conference presentations:

• American Dairy Science Association (Cincinnati, Ohio. June 2019) oral presentation
• American Association of Bovine Practitioners (St. Louis, Missouri. September 2019) poster presentation
• International Association for Paratuberculosis Colloquium (Dublin, Ireland. June 2022) poster and oral

Education:

• Ontario Veterinary College, Department of Population Medicine Graduate program/PhD (2017-2022)
• Ontario Veterinary College
  Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (2009-2013)
• University of Guelph
  Honors Bachelor of Science (2004-2009)

Employment:

• Veterinary Science Specialist (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
  • Design and evaluation of disease surveillance for Canada’s domestic livestock
    • Main portfolio consists of the BSE, Scrapie surveillance programs and ad-hoc surveillance requests for CWD surveillance
  • Assisting in the development of Canada’s surveillance system for the early detection of HPAI in dairy cattle
  • Evaluation and assessments of diagnostic assays
• Teaching Assistant (Epidemiology 2)
  • Marking and invigilating
  • answering student questions
  • conducting labs and lectures
• Teaching Assistant (Clinical Medicine/ Art of Veterinary Medicine)
  • Marking and invigilating
  • coaching veterinary students in clinical communication skills
• Healthy Pets- telemedicine consultations
  • text, video, and audio veterinary advice and triage
• Locum veterinarian (2017-2021)
  • providing relief veterinary services
• Associate veterinarian (2013-2017)