Leadership
Executive Board
Auburn University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of '94
KVMA Member since 1994
Currently lives in the Bowling Green area and owns her own Veterinary Practice.
Dr. Debra Shoulders
President
Auburn College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of '2000
KVMA Member since 2000
Currently lives in Boaz, KY and practices in Paducah, KY.
Dr. Jason L. Rodgers
President-Elect
State University
Class of '96
KVMA Member since 2001
Currently lives in the Louisville area and is a solo mobile small animal veterinarian.
Dr. Brigette Dean-Hines
Vice President
Auburn University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of '14
KVMA Member since 2014
Currently lives in Frankfort and has a small veterinary practice in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Dr. Wade King
Secretary/Treasurer
University of Pennsylvania
Class of '97
KVMA Member since 2001
Currently lives in Georgetown, KY and practices veterinary medicine at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington,Kentucky.
Dr. Bonnie Barr
Past President
Oklahoma State College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of 2003
His is currently practicing at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute
Dr. Ernie Martinez
Kentucky Association of Equine Practitoners
Auburn University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of '93
KVMA Member since 1996
Currently lives in the Barbourville where Dr. Thomason Smith and her husband Dr. Mark Smith founded their practice called Knox County Veterinary Services.
Dr. Tammy Thomason Smith
Southeast Kentucky VMA
TBA
TBA
Central KVMA
Auburn University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of '15
KVMA Member since 2015
Currently lives in Morehead and practices/teaches at Morehead State University's Veterinary Technology program.
Dr. Lauren Mirus
Buffalo Trace VMA
Auburn University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of '2013
KVMA Member since 2013
Currently lives in Bowling Green and practices at By-Pass Animal Clinic in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Dr. Ben Redmon
South Central KY VMA
Auburn University,College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of '87
KVMA Member since 1987
Currently lives in Central City, KY and works at Breathitt Vet Center in Hopkinsville, KY.
Dr. Debbie Reed
West Central KY VMA
Oklahoma State University
Class of '94
KVMA Member since 2007
Currently lives in the Louisville area and owns her own practice called Country Animal Hospital.
Dr. Consuela Rinehart
Greater Louisville VMATBA
TBA
Jackson Purchase VMA
TBA
TBA
Northern Kentucky VMA
Texas A & M University
Class of '99
KVMA Member since 2000
Currently lives in the Lawrenceburg area and is a Veterinary Pathologist at the UK Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
Dr. Lynne Cassone
RADR VMA
The Ohio State University
Class of '80
KVMA Member since 1985
Currently lives in the Northern KY area and is currently serving as a House of Delegate representative and Governmental Relations Chair for the KVMA and retired from active practice.
Dr. Jim Weber
AVMA Delegate
Auburn College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of '86
KVMA Member since 1986
Currently has a mixed animal veterinary dermatology practice in Flemingsburg.
Dr. Frank Vice
AVMA Alternate Delegate
University of Glasgow Scotland
Class of 2001
Currently lives in Georgetown, KY
Dr. Katie Flynn
KY State Veterinarian - Advisor
University of Florida
Class of '96
KVMA Member since 2017
Currently lives in N. KY and currently works for the KY Department of Public Health and prior to that was an Epidemiologist or the N.KY Health Department since 2009.
Dr. Kelly Giesbrecht
KY Public Health Veterinarian - Advisor
Colorado Mountain College Veterinary Technician Program
Class of '79, Veterinary Technician Specialty in Clinical Pathology in 2012.
Currently retired after teaching at Morehead State for 35 years.
Barb Lewis, LVT, VTS (Clin Path)
KVTA Representative - Advisor
Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine
Class of 2011
He currently lives in Shelbyville, KY.
Dr. Alex Hagan
KY Deputy State Veterinarian Advisor
University of Georgia
Currently resides in Frankfort, KY