Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Carla

Meet Carla, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Carla is from Houston, Texas, and is currently a third-year veterinary medical student from Texas A&M University. She’ll graduate in 2023. According to Carla, her interest in working in animal medicine started when she was little. She said she always had pets growing up, and that her first pet was a cat named Kicky. As she got older, Carla began shadowing at different vet clinics as a…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Shelby

Say “hello” to Shelby, one of the newest externs to join the team at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Shelby is a third-year veterinary medical student at Michigan State University and will graduate in May 2022. She grew up in the Detroit area and started working in animal medicine in high school at a local, small animal hospital. Shelby said she enjoyed working in the medical field, but couldn’t decide between human or animal medicine. “I realized I just preferred treating…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Lindsey

Please welcome Lindsey, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Lindsey is a third-year veterinary medical student at Purdue University and will graduate in May 2022. Lindsey is from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has been a life-long lover of science and animals. She said she shadowed an animal clinic in her hometown as a veterinary assistant, and that made her fully realize she wanted to go into animal medicine. “I just couldn’t see myself doing anything…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Asha

Say “hello” to Asha, the newest extern to join the team at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Asha is from San Antonio, Texas, and is a fourth-year student at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Midwestern University. She will graduate in May 2021. Growing up, Asha was a big animal lover but hadn’t considered going into animal medicine. She said she didn’t consider veterinary medicine as a career until she was a student at the University of Houston. “I originally started…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Jackie

Please welcome Jackie, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Jackie is a fourth-year veterinary medical student at Louisiana State University (LSU) and will graduate in May 2021. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Jackie had mostly cats growing up. She and her parents adopted their family dog when she was in the 8th grade. Jackie’s parents are both doctors, and she said she briefly considered going into human medicine for her career. “I always wanted…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Sean

Please give a warm welcome to Sean, the newest extern at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Sean is currently a fourth-year veterinary student at Midwestern University and will graduate in May 2021. A native of Southern California, Sean didn’t realize he wanted to become a veterinarian until he was an undergrad student. He said he was more interested in obtaining a technical degree and considered going into blue-collar work. It wasn’t until he took a biology class did he start to…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Nai

Please welcome Nai, one of the newest externs to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Nai is currently a 4th-year student at Western University in Pomona, California, and will graduate in May 2021. He was born in China, but his family relocated to Saudi Arabia for his step-father’s job. They lived there for a number of years before Nai’s family relocated to the United States in 2012 and settled in the Las Vegas area. Nai was surrounded by dogs…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Brooke

Say hello to Brooke, one of the newest externs to join the team at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Brooke is currently a fourth-year student at The University of Georgia and will graduate in May 2021. She grew up in Peachtree City, Georgia. A fun fact about her hometown is that people drive around everywhere on golf carts – there are over 100 miles of paths! “I have always felt drawn to animals since a young age, but it wasn’t until…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Jenni

Please welcome Jenni, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Jenni is currently a 4th year veterinary student at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine and will graduate in May 2021. Jenni is from a small town near Savannah, Georgia but always had big dreams of becoming a veterinarian. “I’ve always loved animals and like most young girls, wanted to become a veterinarian when I grew up,” she said. “I’ve worked other jobs outside…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Sarah

Introducing Sarah, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Sarah is a 4th-year veterinary medical student from University of Missouri and will graduate in May 2021. She grew up in Arkansas and has always known she wanted to be a veterinarian. When Sarah was in second grade, her teacher made a comment that Sarah told all her classmates that she was “going to be a veterinarian and treat people’s pets”. “All my life we have had…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Katelyn

Say “hello” to Katelyn, the newest extern to join the team at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Katelyn is from Utica, Kentucky, and had several dogs and cats growing up. Katelyn said she initially wanted to be a paleontologist when she was younger but changed her mind when she found out that movies like “Jurrasic Park” were fiction. She still had a passion for science, so Katelyn shifted her focus to animal medicine. She’s worked at veterinary clinics in her hometown…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Karissa

Meet Karissa, the newest extern at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Karissa is a born-and-raised Las Vegas native. Growing up, her family was friends with Dr. Bullard while he was at Lone Mountain Animal Hospital, and was someone Karissa looked up to. “We had dogs that had weird diseases that I got interested in and it just clicked one day for me,” she said. Karissa said she’s always was interested in science and originally thought of going into human medicine, specifically…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Karrington

Say “hello” to Karrington, the newest extern at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Karrington is a 4th-year student at Ross University in St. Kitts and is finishing her clinical year at Colorado State University. She grew up in Tennessee, right between Memphis and Nashville, and knew she wanted to become a veterinarian since she was a young girl. “As a kid I always really loved animals, and as I got older, I started shadowing veterinarians at different animal hospitals, and it…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Heather

Introducing Heather, the newest extern at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Heather is currently a 4th-year student at Ross University in St. Kitts, an island located in the Caribbean. Growing up in the Los Angeles area, Heather said she knew from a young age that she wanted to become a veterinarian but really made up her mind once she reached high school. “I had shadowed a veterinarian and I was like, ‘Okay, I really don’t see myself doing anything else,’” she…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Nicole

Meet Nicole, the newest extern at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Hailing from Apple Valley in Southern California, Nicole knew from an early age she wanted to become a veterinarian. She volunteered at a local, small animal clinic in her hometown in high school, and was also a veterinary assistant and receptionist for the same clinic after she graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Bachelor’s in Animal Science. After working in Apple Valley for about two years, Nicole…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Megan

Meet the newest extern at Craig Road Animal Hospital, Megan! Megan is currently a fourth-year student at Colorado State University and will graduate in 2021; she obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Ohio State University. She grew up mostly in Reno, but Megan said she’s “been all over the place.” She said she wanted to become a veterinarian to help preserve the animal-human bond. “I really just think that it’s so unique and so special, we really…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Lindsey

Meet Lindsey, one of the newest externs here at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Growing up in Virginia Beach, VA, Lindsey said for as long as she can remember, she’s wanted to be a veterinarian. “There’s a picture of me in the first grade at the ‘Student of the Month’ board, and it said, ‘What do you wanna be when you grow up?’ and I wrote down a veterinarian,” she said. “I haven’t really considered anything else!” Lindsey attended Virginia Polytechnic…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Leah

Meet Leah, the newest extern at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Hailing from the City of Brotherly Love, Leah always knew that she wanted to be a veterinarian. Growing up, she volunteered at various vet clinics in the Philadelphia area, shadowing doctors and learning about animal medicine. Currently, Leah is a third-year Doctor of Veterinary Medicine student at the University of Missouri and has volunteered at two more veterinary clinics while at Mizzou. “I really enjoy getting the hands-on experience,” she…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Sierra

Sierra is originally from Daytona Beach Florida. As soon as she could talk, Sierra Knew she wanted to be a veterinarian. “There was never anything else I wanted to do,” said Sierra. She has worked in animal hospitals since she was sixteen at the urging of her father. Sierra attended the University of South Florida in Tampa for her undergraduate degree. She then spent the first two and a half years of vet school in Grand Cayman Islands at St.…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Larissa

Larissa is a local girl having grown up in Las Vegas Nevada. Larissa always knew she was going to be a veterinarian. “My mom tried to get me interested in other things,” she said. “I tried architecture, golfing, and dancing but I always found my way back to veterinary medicine.” Larissa received her bachelor’s from the University of Nevada, Reno, and is currently a 3rd year Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine student at St. Mathews University School of Veterinary Medicine in…

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