As a clinician-educator, the majority of my teaching efforts are on the clinic floor where I must balance the supervision of clinical care and teaching. In this clinical teaching setting, I am often engaged in a dual process of problem-solving: clinical reasoning to care for patients and educational reasoning to teach students/trainees. I hope to create a learning environment in which students feel safe, seen, heard, valued and respected. I would like to practice culturally responsive teaching which recognizes the unique identities, backgrounds and cultures of students. We need to reframe how we think about diversity—as a great asset. Ultimately, I hope to create a learning environment in which students are intellectually thriving and are able to reach their maximum potential; will be good citizens of the world and will be activists for social justice; and will have the skills necessary to thrive in the 21st Century.

Education

DVM, Diplomate ACVECC