Jennifer Steele is a certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties as a specialist in small-animal internal medicine and lives in the US state of Wisconsin. After a short time as a registered nurse in human medicine, she returned to university and received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Canada, then completed an internship at the University of Minnesota and residency training at the University of Wisconsin. Over her 20 years as a small-animal internal medicine specialist, she has worked at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine as an Assistant Clinical Professor, an Internal Medicine Consultant and Field Medical Specialist at IDEXX and, most recently, she was Associate Veterinarian in Small-Animal Internal Medicine at a busy emergency and specialised referral practice in Wisconsin. When she's not working, she enjoys spending time with her cat, gardening and training for triathlons. Dr Steele has already completed an Ironman triathlon and fully intends to complete Ironman Wisconsin in September 2023, to raise awareness of and money for the organisation Not One More Vet. The views and opinions in this piece are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of either The Vetiverse or IDEXX.
