Hello! I’m Beth Davidow, and I decided I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was 7 years old. I have worked in many types of veterinary practices, including zoo, exotic, mixed animal, primary care small animal, multi-specialty small animal, and academia. I’ve held almost every position in a veterinary hospital, including kennel, reception, assistant, associate, emergency doctor, criticalist, medical director, and owner.

I am a 1995 veterinary graduate from Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. After working ER in Seattle for several years, I completed my ECC residency at Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital in Portland, OR, achieving diplomate status in 2002.

In 2003, I co-founded the first 24/7 multi-specialty hospital and community blood bank within the city limits of Seattle, which grew to two locations and 150 staff.  After a merger and then a second sale, I decided it was time for a change. Since 2002, I have been a consultant for the Veterinary Information Network (VIN). I am currently president of the American College of Veterinary Emergency Critical Care. For 2.5 years, I was a faculty member in Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Washington State University.

I am now the CEO and one of the co-founders of Timberline Veterinary Emergency and Specialty.

I started The Veterinary Idealist to encourage conversations in our industry around quality, ownership, sustainability, and community. I am available for consultations and speaking engagements on these topics as well as subjects in veterinary emergency and critical care. Email me to schedule and for more details. Or, take a look at my CV and publications to learn more about me, my research interests, and other speaking engagements.

**Views expressed on The Veterinary Idealist are mine alone.**

Recent Lectures

Business and Medical Quality Topics

• When the Worst Happens: Responding to Adverse Events and Medical Errors (Oregon Veterinary Medical Association, Power of 10, 2022)
• Understanding and negotatiating production based contracts (VIN 2021)
• I’m a Medical Director – Now What (Panel Discussion IVECCS 2021)
• Implementing Checklists (IVECCS, September 2019)
• Consolidation and Ownership Trends in the Vet Industry: What’s Happening and Why (VIN Rounds, May 2019)
• Alternate Business Models for Succession Planning (Private Consulting Client, June 2019)

Emergency and Critical Care Topics

• Rational Use of Antibiotics in the Emergency Room (WSVMA Spring Conference 2022)
• Respiratory Emergencies (WSVMA Spring Conference 2022)
• Having difficult conversations in the ER (IVECCS 2021)
• Defining, preventing, and treating transfusion reactions (IVECCS 2021)
• CPR (Pacific NW Veterinary Conference, 2020)
• Approach to the Anemic Patient (Pacific NW Veterinary Conference, 2020)
• Fluid therapy (Pacific NW Veterinary Conference, 2020)
• Top Toxins (Pacific NW Veterinary Conference, 2020)
• Pathophysiology of Shock (VIN, 2020)
• Common Dilemmas for Drug Administration in the Renal Patient (IVECCS, September 2019)
• Feline Urethral Obstruction (IVECCS, September 2019)
• Feline Transfusion Medicine (VIN/VECCS Rounds, March 2018)