Passionate Teacher and Animal Welfare Researcher
Q&A with Shelter and Community Medicine Program Director Emily McCobb, VG02, V00
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Canine Spay Course
A course for third-year veterinary candidates to apply their surgery and anesthesia knowledge.
HQHV Clinic
The Tufts Shelter Medicine Program partners with shelters and rescue organizations from central Massachusetts to provide low-cost spay and neuter services for homeless animals.
Shelter Medicine Program at Cummings School
The Shelter Medicine Program at Cummings School blends our strengths in patient care, research, and service-learning to care for underserved animals in our community while providing hands-on learning opportunities to veterinary students.
Featured Stories
Can Pets Get COVID-19?
There have been news reports that two dogs (both in Hong Kong) and two cats (one in Belgium and one in Hong Kong) tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, but ...
Can Pets Get or Spread COVID-19?
Cummings School scientists launch a study to better understand the novel coronavirus and how it may infect pets and other domestic animals
Finding Fulfillment in Shelter Medicine
A longstanding love of animals led Adrian Dannis, V20, to discover a rewarding career—and herself
Helping Those Who Need It Most
Petty Kim, V20, explains how her upbringing led her to veterinary medicine
Teaching Vital Surgeries, One Pet in Need at a Time
Yuki Nakayama, V14, is helping Cummings School increase access to surgical care for pets whose owners otherwise couldn’t afford it—and giving students hands-on training in the process
Contact
The Luke and Lily Lerner Spay/Neuter Clinic at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is located on the North Grafton veterinary campus (building L on the interactive campus map).
Luke and Lily Lerner Spay/Neuter Clinic
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
55 Willard Street
North Grafton, MA 01536
Phone: 508-887-4326
Fax: 508-887-4563
LernerClinic@tufts.edu