A 2017 graduate of the Tufts Cummings Faculty of Veterinary Drugs is making ready to make her voice heard because the AVMA’s subsequent congressional fellow in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Mariah Lancaster has been chosen to take part within the 2023-2024 AVMA Fellowship Program, serving as a full-time scientific advisor to a congressional workplace or committee. Utilizing her veterinary experience, she’ll work with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to form and affect laws on quite a lot of coverage points.
Dr. Lancaster has labored as an emergency and common observe reduction veterinarian, and in addition interned with the Ocean State Veterinary Specialists in Rhode Island and the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife in Florida.
She brings a wide selection of public coverage expertise to her fellowship. She is a present fellow for the American Affiliation for the Development of Science (AAAS) and co-chair of that affiliation’s One Well being Affinity Group. She additionally has served on the Affiliation of Avian Veterinarians’ Legislative Committee and the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Affiliation’s Authorities Relations and Advocacy Committee.
Veterinary voices are essential wherever public coverage choices are being made that have an effect on animal welfare and veterinary drugs. Discover extra details about the AVMA’s congressional fellowship program at avma.org/Fellowship.
