Dr. Erin Lashnits is a clinical assistant professor in small animal internal medicine at University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. She received her MS in biology from Stanford University, DVM from Cornell University, and PhD in comparative biomedical sciences from NCSU. She did her internship at a private practice in Brooklyn NY and spent a few years in GP/ER (while simultaneously teaching high school chemistry) in Buffalo NY, before completing her internal medicine residency through the clinician investigator program at NCSU. Her current research focuses on the epidemiology of Bartonella and other zoonotic vector-borne diseases in a One Health context.