Each year, the UW School of Veterinary Medicine and UW Veterinary Care welcome a new group of interns and residents — graduate veterinarians who come here to learn from our exceptional specialists while providing top-notch clinical care and services. They are the best and brightest and bring tremendous value to the animals they treat.
Interns are veterinarians who are dedicating a year of their careers to additional training. Rotating interns work with multiple specialty services but spend most of their time in emergency and critical care, and specialty interns focus on one particular area or service. Residents are veterinarians who are training to become specialists, typically dedicating two to three years to a particular specialty area in veterinary medicine.
Here’s a look at this year’s new names and faces.
Specialty Interns and Fellows
 Juliet Caviness DVM’17 Primary Care |
 Andrew Eitzer, DVM Diagnostic Imaging |
 Changseok Kim, DVM Oncology Clinical Trials |
 Michelle Piccione, DVM Dermatology |
 Kelly Shaw, DVM Large Animal Surgery |
 Olivia Swailes, DVM Shelter Medicine |
 Sara Tolliver, DVM Diagnostic Imaging |
 Deb Yannessa, DVM Shelter Medicine |
Small Animal Rotating Interns
 Kyle Bartholomew DVM’17 |
 Adam Eby, DVM |
 Harathi Krishnan, DVM |
 Rebecca McBride, DVM |
 Andrea Minella, DVM |
 Natasha Pakravan, DVM |
 Joey Sapora, DVM |
Residents
 Alexandre Ellis, DVM Shelter Medicine |
 Sarah Holman, DVM Small Animal Surgery |
 Rikki Horne, RPh Pharmacy |
 Casandra Jacobs, DVM Small Animal Internal Medicine |
 Laura Lee DVM’17 Anatomic Pathology |
 Jane (JR) Lund MS’07, DVM’07 Diagnostic Imaging |
 Timothy Menghini, DVM Small Animal Surgery |
 Cameron Ratliff, DVM Zoological Medicine |
 Jessica Robertson, DVM Dentistry and Oral Surgery |
 Nora Sheehan DVM’16 Cardiology |
 Casey Smith, DVM Neurology/Neurosurgery |
 Kevin Snyder DVM’16 Ophthalmology |
 Nathaniel Van Asselt, DVM Radiation Oncology |
 Elizabeth Wood, DVM Oncology |