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: Sara

Meet Sara, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Sara is currently a 4th-year student at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) and will graduate in May 2021. She grew up outside of St. Louis, Missouri in a small town called Troy and was active in the 4-H Club and Future Farmers of America. “I grew up showing horses and other livestock and developed a love for all animals early on,” Sara said. “I have a passion…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Sarah

Meet Sarah, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Sarah is currently a 4th-year veterinary student at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) and will be graduating in May 2021. She’s originally from Franklin, Tennessee, a town located about an hour away from Nashville. Sarah said she’s wanted to be a veterinarian ever since she was 3-years-old, according to her mom at least. “I think I fell in love with the field the first time we took…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Makenzie

Introducing Makenzie, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Makenzie is currently a 4th-year veterinary student at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine and will graduate in May 2021. She grew up in Dublin, Ohio and has always wanted to be a veterinarian ever since she was a kid. Makenzie said she’s never been able to imagine herself doing anything else. “I think it’s really cool that we not only get to work with animals, but…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Courtney

Say “hello” to Courtney, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Courtney is a 4th-year veterinary medical student at Michigan State University and will graduate in May 2021. She grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago and said she’s always wanted to become a veterinarian for as long as she could remember. “All my life I’ve always loved animals,” she said. “My family always had a dog in the house growing up, and I just…

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Craig Road Animal Hospital Externship Program: Lauren

Introducing Lauren, the newest extern to join the Craig Road Animal Hospital team! Lauren is a 4th-year veterinary medical student at Auburn University and will graduate in May 2021. Lauren grew up in Philadelphia and said she first considered going into animal medicine after shadowing a veterinarian as part of a senior project in high school but was reluctant at first. “I wasn’t completely sold off the bat,” she said. “I was just like, ‘Oh, I like animals and medicine…

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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: Megan

Meet Megan, the newest extern at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Megan grew up near Kenosha, Wisconsin, and had a love for animals since she was a toddler. She said that when her childhood dog had puppies, she refused to leave the birthing box, and had a habit of catching other animals and bringing them home as new pets. “I figured if I caught it, it was mine,” Megan said. “I brought a baby goose home one time when I was…

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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: 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: Sarah

Introducing Sarah, the newest extern to join the team at Craig Road Animal Hospital! Sarah grew up just outside of the Philadelphia area. She is currently a fourth-year student at Ross University, located on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean, and is finishing her clinical year at Colorado State University. She obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from the University of Alabama. Having grown up around horses, Sarah knew from a young age she wanted to be…

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