About the Author
After graduating from Duke University, Dr. Burkitt received her DVM from the University of California, Davis, in 2000. She completed a small animal rotating internship at the University of Pennsylvania, and then returned to UC Davis for an Emergency and Critical Care residency from 2002-2005. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. She has worked in emergency and critical care across the United States in both private and university practice. Dr Burkitt is an assistant professor at UC Davis, and her primary research interests are prevention of recurrent urethral obstruction in male cats and endocrine disease in the emergency room and intensive care unit.