Alexandra Lee Zwiebel

Veterinary graduate completing a rotating internship at Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists with experience in equine surgery, internal medicine, and emergency care. Highly motivated, team-oriented, and focused on pursuing a surgical residency.

• 1) Kentucky-Lexington-Rood&Riddle Hospital : 01/07/2023-15/07/2023 - Rotation between surgery and internal medicine.
• 2) UC Davis Equine Hospital : 16/07/2023-01/08/2023 - Rotation at surgery and lameness service.
• 3) Utrecht university- Equine hospital : 21/06/2024-24/08/2024 - Rotation in surgery and lameness, internal medicine, ambulatory services, reproduction and night shifts.
• 4) Department of Agriculture food and the marine; state laboratory - Ireland 26/08/2024-01/09/2024 - took part in diagnostic of notifiable and zoonotic diseases. Post Morten examinations.
• 5) MidKerry Veterinary Center - Ireland: 02/09/2024-30/09/2024 - production animal medicine. Took part in surgeries, diagnostics and therapies.
• 6) Rood and Riddle Wellington - Florida: 25/11/2024-01/12/2024
• 7) Peterson and Smith - Ocala, Florida: 02/12/2024-08/12/2024
• 8) Alamo Pintado Equine Medical Center: 09/12/2024-15/12/2024
• 9) Cornell University - Ruffian Equine Specialists: 16/12/2024-22/12/2024

Presented collaborative research with the University of California, Davis, titled “How to Differentiate Shivers from Other Orthopedic and Neurological Diseases,” at the Student–Teacher Conference Competition in Hungary, where I was awarded first place.

• Peer-mentoring program from 2020 until 2024. Took part in a mentoring program where, as a mentor and a member of the upper years, I was helping and tutoring first year students and later on lower year students in general. My role ranged from studies advice and private tutoring as well as orientating them around the campus and helping them in all possible ways in their student life in a foreign/unknown country.
• Skills Lab from 2020 until 2024. Was an instructor of the skills lab of my university. There, students and myself organized weekly activities to train fellow students in certain skills like history takings, clinical exams, suturing technics, etc…

• 1) Kentucky-Lexington-Rood&Riddle Hospital : 01/07/2023-15/07/2023 - Rotation between surgery and internal medicine.
• 2) UC Davis Equine Hospital : 16/07/2023-01/08/2023 - Rotation at surgery and lameness service.
• 3) Utrecht university- Equine hospital : 21/06/2024-24/08/2024 - Rotation in surgery and lameness, internal medicine, ambulatory services, reproduction and night shifts.
• 4) Department of Agriculture food and the marine; state laboratory - Ireland 26/08/2024-01/09/2024 - took part in diagnostic of notifiable and zoonotic diseases. Post Morten examinations.
• 5) MidKerry Veterinary Center - Ireland: 02/09/2024-30/09/2024 - production animal medicine. Took part in surgeries, diagnostics and therapies.
• 6) Rood and Riddle Wellington - Florida: 25/11/2024-01/12/2024
• 7) Peterson and Smith - Ocala, Florida: 02/12/2024-08/12/2024
• 8) Alamo Pintado Equine Medical Center: 09/12/2024-15/12/2024
• 9) Cornell University - Ruffian Equine Specialists: 16/12/2024-22/12/2024

Presented collaborative research with the University of California, Davis, titled “How to Differentiate Shivers from Other Orthopedic and Neurological Diseases,” at the Student–Teacher Conference Competition in Hungary, where I was awarded first place.