Lauren Park
San Mateo,CA
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director, Veterinarian
Vets in Vans
04.2022 - 11.2024
- Company Overview: Co-founded Vets in Vans, a nonprofit, low-cost, high quality, high volume care for the public
- As former shelter veterinarians, we discovered that we constantly battled the gap in the community access to veterinary care in urgent care, preventative care, surgeries, dentals, and euthanasias for low income and BIPOC communities
- We started a mobile nonprofit organization targeting certain communities in Oakland, Alameda, and San Francisco in order to provide high quality, cost-effective veterinary care to those highest at risk for shelter surrenders and subsequent euthanasias.
- Our overarching goal is to decrease shelter intake by filling the gap in access to care and therefore keeping families together with their pets, and decreasing the burden on our local municipal shelters. Within 2 years of operations, we helped almost 7,000 pets receive the medical care they needed without being surrendered to the shelter.
Shelter Medicine Veterinarian
Muttville
11.2019 - 12.2022
- Perform sterilization surgeries in addition to complex special procedures such as intra-abdominal lipoma removal, nephrectomy, inguinal hernia repair, mammary mass removals, mass removals, and intra-abdominal mass removals
- Perform presurgical examinations on all patients
- Perform medical examinations, diagnostics, and formulate treatment plans for all shelter animals
Shelter Medicine Veterinarian
Oakland Animal Services
03.2020 - 06.2022
- Implement pathway planning protocols for an open admission municipal shelter with an annual intake of approximately 6000 animals
- Identify bottlenecks in animal pathway and implement protocols that improve length of stay while focusing on capacity for care
- Have difficult, open, progressive conversations with staff members about changing our views on animal welfare and how to better serve our community
Shelter Medicine Staff Veterinarian
San Francisco SPCA
07.2016 - 03.2020
- Spearhead the medical pathway intake program between source shelter and destination shelters and associated protocols
- Spearhead the PAWS program (Preadoption wellness support program), which allows animals to be pre-selected for adoption for foster to adopt to minimize stay in shelter while recovering from medical conditions
- Implement capacity for care to minimize the length of stay of shelter animals from source to home to maximize animal welfare
- Perform cross departmental training to optimize continuity of care for shelter animals
- Build interdepartmental relationships across the organization
- Perform sterilization surgeries for community animals, SPCA shelter animals, and contracted city shelter animals
- Proficiency with special procedures such as perineal urethrostomy, eyelid agenesis repair, cystotomy, limb and tail amputations, entropion repair, enucleations, gastrotomies, colopexies, enterotomies, mass removals, eyelid agenesis flap repair, diaphragmatic hernias, salivary mucocele removal, cherry eye repairs, and femoral head ostectomy
- Perform medical examinations, diagnostics, and formulate treatment plans for all shelter animals
- Develop and implement shelter protocols
Spay/Neuter Relief Veterinarian
East Bay SPCA
07.2016 - 07.2018
- Perform up to 36 sterilization surgeries per shift for community spay neuter and shelter animals (Oakland Animal Services and East Bay SPCA)
- Perform presurgical examinations on all patients
Spay/Neuter Relief Veterinarian
Animal Fix Clinic
07.2016 - 07.2018
- Perform up to 60 sterilization surgeries per shift for community spay neuter
- Perform special procedures as needed
- Perform pre-surgical examinations on all patients
Veterinary Intern
San Diego Humane Society
07.2015 - 07.2016
- Performed sterilization surgeries for shelter, community, and contracted city shelter animals
- Trained in and developed proficiency in special surgery procedures
- Participated in multi-site topic rounds
- Promoted and maintained humane care and treatment of animals at the clinic and in the shelter
- Performed medical examinations, diagnostics, and treatment plans
- Presented various veterinary topics to the Humane Law Academy and summer camps
- Provided leadership and training to veterinary staff by providing in-house CE's on topics such as standard positioning techniques for radiology, performing blood smears including counting white blood cells and platelets, and standard dermatologic sampling
- Trained rotating veterinary students
- Provided and led journal clubs throughout our multi-site campus
- Developed and implemented shelter protocols
Education
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine -
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA01.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA01.2008
Skills
- Business development
- Strategic partnerships
- Strategic visioning
- Staff management
- Partnership cultivation
- Board reporting
- Problem-solving
- Verbal and written communication
- Decision-making
- Team building
- Project management
- Visionary leadership
Licensureandcertification
- California Veterinary Medical Board, 20879, 01/2015, Current
- DEA License, 01/2015, Current
- USDA National Veterinary Accreditation Program, 075713, 01/2015, Current
CE training
- Managing common abdominal problems in practice today, IVS, Napa, CA
- Cutaneous reconstructive techniques, Western Veterinary Conference, Las Vegas, NV
- Vet to Leader, Emancipet, Davis, CA
- Practical techniques in soft tissue and orthopedic surgery, Western Veterinary Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2019
- Western Veterinary Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2016
Shelter Medicine and Outreach Experience
- Oregon Humane Society, Student extern, 10/2014, 10/2014, Portland, OR
- 4RFRIENDs Rescue, Volunteer, 03/2013, 05/2015, Sacramento, CA
- Sacramento City Animal Shelter, Volunteer, 08/2013, 05/2015, Sacramento, CA
- International Veterinary Outreach Clinic, Volunteer, 07/2013, 11/2013, Covelo, CA
- VET SOS, Volunteer, 06/2013, 05/2015, San Francisco, CA
- UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, Student extern, 07/2013, 07/2013, Davis, CA
Awards
- Society of Phi Zeta - Lambda chapter, University of California, Davis, 2015
- Valentine Endowed Scholarship, University of California, Davis, 2015
- Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Excellence in Shelter Medicine Award, University of California, Davis, 2014
- Tiger Memorial Scholarship, University of California, Davis, 2014
- Ann Treiser and Jamie Memorial Scholarship, University of California, Davis, 2014
- Zoetis Scholarship, University of California, Davis, 2014
- Dean's Honor Roll, University of California, Berkeley (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Leadership Experience
- Coordinator, Lake County Outreach, 08/2019, 06/2020, Clearlake, CA, Recruit and manage high volume spay neuter veterinarians and RVTs.
- Coordinator, Josh Project, 08/2012, 03/2014, Davis, CA, Recruited and managed Josh Project volunteers.
- Student Coordinator, Fix Our Ferals, 05/2013, 03/2014, Davis, CA, Recruited and assigned veterinary students positions for our monthly Fix our Ferals event.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Korean
Professional Working
Timeline
Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director, Veterinarian
Vets in Vans
04.2022 - 11.2024
Shelter Medicine Veterinarian
Oakland Animal Services
03.2020 - 06.2022
Shelter Medicine Veterinarian
Muttville
11.2019 - 12.2022
Shelter Medicine Staff Veterinarian
San Francisco SPCA
07.2016 - 03.2020
Spay/Neuter Relief Veterinarian
East Bay SPCA
07.2016 - 07.2018
Spay/Neuter Relief Veterinarian
Animal Fix Clinic
07.2016 - 07.2018
Veterinary Intern
San Diego Humane Society
07.2015 - 07.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine -
University of California, Davis
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