Blazing Your Own Path in Vet Med with Dr. Joanne Maki

Published: Jan. 13, 2022, 10 a.m.

b'\\u201cLooking back I feel really blessed that I had two choices, I could either go down the path of being an artist or possibly being a scientist and I thought, \\u2018ok if I could be a veterinarian, this is going to be exactly what I\\u2019m meant to do.\\u2019 I feel lucky that I had that vision as a child and that\\u2019s what I wanted to do. So yeah, it was an easy choice, growing up, I wanted to be a veterinarian.\\u201d

Our guest today is Dr. Joanne Maki. Dr. Maki is the Technical Director for North America Veterinary Public Health with Boehringer Ingelheim. She shares her incredible career journey and how one newspaper ad for a veterinarian changed the course of her career. We also talk about how she blends her passion for science and creativity into her research. It\\u2019s an incredible conversation and we can\\u2019t wait to share it with you!

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