#56 Tierra Price, DVM - Diversity Leads to Growth in Veterinary Medicine
In this episode, Dr. Tierra Price joins the show. We discuss her journey and diversity within veterinary medicine. She is a recent graduate of Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, where she served as Vice President of her class and President of the Women’s Veterinary Development Leadership Initiative. She is currently a Community Medicine veterinarian in Los Angeles, California, but has a wide variety of veterinary interests including emergency/critical care, surgery, public health and lab animal medicine. As a veterinary student, in 2018, Dr. Price founded BlackDVM Network, a community that connects Black veterinary professionals for mentorship and advancing veterinary medicine.
- Why veterinary medicine for you? What was your exposure to the career?
- Veterinary School & Admissions - what's working and not working.
- Her experiences at Virginia Tech and how she dealt with it.
- The foundation and progression of BlackDVM Network.
- What the community of veterinary medicine can be doing to become more diverse.
- Her soapbox topic on veterinary medicine, diversity, and inclusion.
