About the Author
Michael began his career in high school working as an animal care attendant, groomer, and veterinary assistant at a family-owned veterinary practice in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. He spent nearly a decade working at the Virginia–Maryland Veterinary Emergency Service and over a year at the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. In 1998, Michael moved to California to accept a position in UC Davis’s Small Animal Intensive Care Unit. He joined Dr. Niels Pedersen’s lab 2 years later, and shortly after that he became program coordinator of the first shelter medicine veterinary training program in the world. After 15 years in that position, Michael joined the UC Davis Veterinary Center for Clinical Trials.


