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DVM, MS
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Saturday, March 1
Dr. Andy Roark is a practicing veterinarian, international speaker, author, and media personality. He is the founder of the Uncharted Veterinary Conference and DrAndyRoark.com. He has been an award-winning columnist for DVM360 and the magazine Today’s Veterinary Business. His social media, website, podcast and YouTube show reach millions of people every month.
Dr. Roark has received the NAVC Practice Management Speaker of the Year Award three times, the WVC Practice Management Educator of the Year Award, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Veterinarian of the Year Award from the South Carolina Association of Veterinarians. His greatest achievement however involves marrying a bad-ass scientist and raising 2 kind and wonderful daughters.
LVMT, VTS (Anesthesia & Analgesia)
Saturday, March 1
Alyssa is a Veterinary Technician Specialist in Anesthesia and Analgesia at The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. She graduated from The University of Tennessee at Martin in 2013, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, with a focus in Veterinary Health Technology. Her passions include anything dachshund related, anesthetizing critical cases, teaching anesthesia to clinical year students, promoting continuing education for veterinary technicians, and networking with other colleagues and companies to learn about advances in veterinary medicine to help further extend her current knowledge and skills.
DVM, DACVECC
Saturday, March 1
Dr. Christine Rutter is originally from Biloxi, Mississippi and received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Mississippi State University. She was a general practitioner in South Florida before pursuing an ECC internship in Louisville, Kentucky. She completed an ECC residency at Tufts University and worked in private specialty practice for six years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is currently a clinical associate professor at Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency Critical Care and a member of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society.
DVM, DACVECC
Sunday, March 2
Dr. Christine Rutter is originally from Biloxi, Mississippi and received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Mississippi State University. She was a general practitioner in South Florida before pursuing an ECC internship in Louisville, Kentucky. She completed an ECC residency at Tufts University and worked in private specialty practice for six years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is currently a clinical associate professor at Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency Critical Care and a member of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society.