Veterinarian Overview
At age 7, Dr. Catherine Wood read the much-loved James Herriot novel, All Creatures Great and Small, which describes the life of a Yorkshire veterinarian in the 1940s. Enchanted by stories of delivering lambs on hillside pastures and of nursing orphaned badgers back to health, she gave up aspirations of being a ballet dancer to pursue veterinary medicine. She trained at Cornell University in the frozen north country of upstate New York where she completed a bachelors in animal science in 2003 and a doctorate in veterinary medicine in 2007. She then completed a one year internship in wildlife and conservation medicine at Tufts University and a second internship in Small Animal Emergency Medicine at the Anne Arundel Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Annapolis, Maryland. She then worked as veterinarian and assistant manager for grass-roots animal welfare organizations in both Malawi (Lilongwe Wildlife Centre , Lilongwe SPCA) and in Cambodia (the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity). After her international adventures, Dr. Wood returned to the US, to Brooklyn, to be near her close friends and to continue to experience the multicultural and the surreal without the stresses of living abroad. She has worked in both family and emergency practices in Brooklyn. She is eager to create a family-oriented practice, very much rooted in the neighborhood, where she and her friends help create an awareness of the need for charity welfare outreach at home and abroad while practicing the best quality medicine possible.
