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C V M S t u d e n t P r o f i l e s - C l a s s o f 2 0 1 4♥I grew up on the west coast of France. Imoved to Los Angeles 10 years ago where Iwent back to school. I followed the RVTprogram at Pierce College then completed theprerequisites for veterinary school. I workedwith large and small animals, wildlife, and wastrained in laboratory animals.Maritchu RavenscroftYvonne RosalesI was born and raised in Fontana, Calif., andreceived my BS in Animal Science with aminor in Microbiology from California StatePolytechnic University, Pomona. I work reliefat an emergency clinic in Upland, Calif., andwork at a day practice in Corona, Calif. I aminterested in laboratory animal medicine.I grew up in Palmdale, Calif. I receivedmy Bachelor’s degree in Animal Sciencefrom the University of California, Davis. Ihave worked in a small animal clinic anddid an internship at the UC DavisVeterinary Medical Teaching Hospital inlarge animal radiology. I would like tofocus on exotic animals.John RuitenbachI’m from Colorado Springs, Colo., andreceived my BS in Organismic Biology fromUniversity of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Iworked at a small animal-exotics-wildlifeclinic during undergrad, and also spent timedoing schutzhund training. I am interested insmall animal medicine.Karin SelbyKara SeylerBorn and raised in Southern California, Iobtained my BS in Biology from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. Ihave worked in small animal privatepractice for a little over a year, and amexcited to explore other areas ofveterinary medicine at WesternU.Ryan SittonI was born and raised in central Arizona.In the fall of 2009 I received my BS inAnimal Physiology from Arizona StateUniversity. I enjoy camping, fishing andspending time on our family cattle ranch.I am the proud father of two youngdaughters. I am interested in food animalmedicine.Born in the Philippines, I grew up in SouthernCalifornia and graduated from the Universityof California, Irvine in 2009 with a degree inBiology. I am interested in laboratory and smallanimal medicine, specializing in oncology.I have three dogs: Duke, Venus, and Gale, all ofwhom live with my family in Texas.Stanley SowyI’m from a small town in New Hampshireand graduated from the University of NewEngland, where I majored in MedicalBiology and minored in Chemistry. Myundergraduate summers were spentworking at a mixed animal practice and Ivolunteered at a marine animalrehabilitation center while at school.Amanda WhiteKendall WilsonI grew up in Maryland and graduated fromCornell University with a BS in AnimalScience. While in college I worked in smallanimal medicine and research, and aftergraduating in 2008 I worked in healthcaremarket research in New York City. I amexcited to decide my career focus atWesternU!Josh YonasI am from Pittsburgh, Pa. I earned my BS inBiology from Dickinson College and afterworking as a marine mammal observer, Imoved to San Diego for my master’s. Iearned my MS from San Diego StateUniversity in Evolutionary Biology studyingwalruses. My interests are marine mammaland small animal medicine.12
C V M F a c u l t y U p d a t eRONALD L. TERRA, DVM, MS,MBA, has been named Directorof Fourth Year Curriculum. Hesucceeds Peggy Schmidt, DVM,MS, DACVPM, who moved to thenewly created position ofDirector of OutcomesAssessment.“I am looking forward to doing asgood a job as Dr. Schmidt,” hesays. “I hope to make fourth yearas enjoyable as possible whileenabling the students to learn asmuch as they possibly can toRONALD TERRA succeed.”Now in his fifth year at WesternU,Dr. Terra has been the course leader for clinical skills for the pastfour years. His background is in food animal medicine, for whichhe developed an interest working on his grandfather’s dairy farmin the tiny northern California town of Winton.He pursued animal science further at the University of California,Davis, obtaining an undergraduate degree in 1977 while also amember of the football and track teams for four years. In 1982, heearned both a DVM and an MS in Animal Science, both also fromUC Davis. He received his MBA in Agriculture from the Universityof Guelph in Ontario, Canada, in 2002.His professional career led him to Turlock, Calif., and the LanderVeterinary Clinic, where he practiced for 24 years. During hisspare time, he served as a high school football official andeventually football coach at Modesto Junior College.Dr. Terra and his wife, Deborah, are the parents of three grownchildren: Kevin, a recent CVM graduate and practicing vet;Rebecca, a high school teacher; and David, a computer softwareengineer.In his spare time, Dr. Terra enjoys reading, particularly historicalnovels, history books and science fiction, and watching football.His favorite teams?“The 49ers, of course!” For college, it’s his alma mater, UC Davis.“Go Aggies!”♥C V M F a c u l t y P r o f i l eLIFE ON A FARM IN BRAZIL AND A FATHER WITH A MICROSCOPE pavedthe way for a veterinary career for Pedro Paulo Diniz, DVM,PhD, who joined the CVM faculty in September, 2009. Hisspecialties are small animal internal medicine and vector-bornezoonotic diseases. “My father worked in the medical field andoversaw laboratory testing,” Dr. Diniz explains. “One of my earliestmemories is of me playing with his microscope. I loved toexplore the microscopic wonders.”That wasn’t all he played with during his eclectic childhood.From ages 2 to 8, he lived in the Brazilian countryside surroundedby cattle, sheep, chickens and other animals. Then, it was off tothe city – Sao Paulo, Brazil – with his expanding family, whichincluded his father, mother (who taught college-level Frenchliterature and later did post-doctoral training at the Sorbonne inFrance), and two younger brothers.Dr. Diniz’s own educational pursuits and quest for knowledge andinformation took him from his homeland to the United States. Heearned his DVM in 1999 from Sao Paulo State University, Collegeof Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Thatwas followed in 2002 by a residency certificate in Small AnimalInternal Medicine and a PhD in Clinical Sciences in 2006, bothalso from Sao Paulo State University. In 2009, he completed postdoctoraltraining in Microbiology at North Carolina StateUniversity in Raleigh, N.C.It was the lowly tick that brought him to North Carolina in 2005,as he furtively sought the reason why dogs in Brazil seemed to bedying – despite medication and treatment – from a tick-bornedisease. “Due to limited resources in my university, I had to carrymy canine samples around tonine different research institutes,migrating like a gypsy,” he recallsof his six years of research. “It wasvery challenging, and this questunexpectedly brought me to theU.S.” He would eventually figure itout, discovering that the mostfrequent tick-transmitted diseasein Brazil can cause cardiac injuryand dysfunction in dogs.Dr. Diniz says he appreciates thatthe CVM has a strong reverencefor life and enjoys its problembasedlearning approach to PEDRO PAULO DINIzeducation. “We want to inspirestudents to be lifelong learners,” he says. “Veterinary Medicine isevolving too fast, and we always have to keep looking andlearning.”Since arriving in California in 2009, Dr. Diniz and his wife, Marina,to whom he has been married for three years, have come toenjoy the Golden State. He takes advantage of its great weatherdaily as he bikes to work from his home in nearby Montclair. Intheir spare time, the couple likes to explore the region, taking ineverything from the beach, through the mountains to the desert,leaving little time – or room in their small apartment – to care foranimals of their own. Says Dr. Diniz, good-naturedly: “For now, Iam a vet with no pets.”♥13
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