Paige Livingston Email and Phone Number

Provide tours of veterinary teaching hospital and veterinary school campus to prospective students, visiting veterinarians, and those interested in learning more about UCD SVM!

Provide one-on-one tutoring services & mentorship to high school students in math, science, and test prep.

Assisted team of 4 internal medicine specialists and 2 emergency veterinarians with consultations, emergency cases, and hospitalized patients. Provided intensive patient care, requiring skill in venipuncture, IV/IM/SQ injections, fluid administration, vitals monitoring, drug calculations, IV catheter placement, and appropriate handling/restraint during procedures (ultrasound, radiographs, endoscopy). Worked through case histories and treatment plans with veterinarians. Hired through CVMA's Summer Work Experience Program (SWEP).

Assisted veterinarians with small animal/exotic patients. Skilled in: history taking, monitoring vital signs, venipuncture, IV catheter placement, IV/IM/SQ injections, taking radiographs, administering fluid therapy, medication administration.

Wrote content for website, blog, newsletters, and pet portal. Prepared marketing materials for career fairs and online job postings. Recruited PHP developers to work with VP of Development and expand technical team.

Created and managed Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Google Plus accounts, researched veterinary buying groups, wrote over 30 newsletter templates on common diseases and treatments, and generated weekly blog posts. Researched hospital challenges and desired product features.

Assisted Harvard College Fund & Capital Giving staff members with alumni event and prospect visit preparation. Transcribed trip reports, prepared letters of acknowledgement and gifts for donors.

Conducted trials testing inference by exclusion in two African Grey Parrots in Dr. Irene Pepperberg's animal cognition lab. Co-author of an article published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology in 2013, entitled Reasoning by Inference: Further Studies on Exclusion in African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus).

Expanded Puppy Friendly Pet Store program to stores across the nation, contacted constituents regarding animal welfare legislation, compiled animal shelter data, discussed animal welfare legislation with congressional staff members on Capitol Hill. Deployed with Animal Rescue Team to Joplin, MO to provide medical care to abandoned dogs following tornado in 2011. Additional deployment to assist in the rescue of 60 Labradors from a commercial breeding facility in northern VT.