Aimee St.Arnaud
Clinic Consultant
Aimee St. Arnaud is a business partner in two full-service veterinary clinics (Community Pet Care Clinic in Ohio and Open Door Veterinary Care in North Carolina) that focus on removing barriers to care and increasing access to veterinary services while still maintaining a net positive revenue. She has created a non-profit mentorship Open Door Veterinary Collective for clinics that want to replicate their business model, including giving back through their revenue, providing incremental care and creating strong community partnerships with human social service and animal non-profits to remove barriers to care.
Dr. Cindi Delany
Director of the Online Learniverse
Dr. Cindi Delany has an undergraduate degree in Business/Economics from UCLA and a DVM from UC Davis. She became the first ever Shelter Veterinarian at Sacramento County Animal Care and Regulation in California under the newly created UC Davis Shelter Medicine Program in 2001. She acquired expertise in improving animal outcomes, environmental enrichment, shelter animal behavior and training, shelter data collection and analysis, and maximizing operational efficiencies in a limited resource environment. The driving force behind sheltermedportal.com, she is the Director of the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge MMPC Online Learning Program, Learniverse.
Dr. Sara Pizano
Shelter Consultant
Dr. Pizano has served as the Director of Veterinary Services at the Humane Society of Broward County in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Director of Miami-Dade Animal Services in Miami, Florida. She joined Target Zero in 2013 and was instrumental in creating and developing a holistic model to transform high euthanasia public shelters and end euthanasia as population control. She created Team Shelter USA, LLC in August of 2017 in an effort to offer a wider scope of services to help shelters of all types and sizes, regardless of their challenges and resources.
Heather Cammisa
Clinic Consultant
Heather has 25 years of experience in community animal welfare, innovation, and mission impact, with more than a dozen of those years as the chief executive of two non-profit organizations. She is a Certified Animal Welfare Administrator, holds a graduate certificate in Wildlife Forensics and Conservation from UF, and is a certified animal control office and animal cruelty investigator. Heather is known for innovating efficient approaches to welfare challenges and developing strategic partnerships for maximizing impact. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and has served on the Thought Leadership Council of PetSmart Charities.
Cameron Moore
Shelter Consultant
Cameron Moore oversaw shelter engagement for the Million Cat Challenge, a project of Maddie’s Fund®, the Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida, and the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program designed to save the lives of millions of cats in animal shelters. She was instrumental in helping the City of Jacksonville build a successful animal welfare program, including launching the renowned Feral Freedom community cat management program, which led to the development of Target Zero. Since 2013 she has completed over 100 shelter assessments in 18 states and Puerto Rico.
Keegan Spera
Disaster Assessment Coordinator & Data Specialist
Keegan Spera oversees data collection, analysis, and visualization for Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge and the Shelter Medicine Program at UF. She maintains a database of all brick-and-mortar shelters in Florida and presents Florida statewide data for a variety of animal welfare organizations. She also offers data training for shelters to improve processes, effectiveness and increase their ability to amplify the impact of their work. Keegan’s Disaster Assessment Coordinator role focuses on helping Florida animal shelters prepare for hurricane season and/or natural disasters. She ensures they have access to resources, training, professional and emergency contacts, and timely reminders. She collaborates with national, state, and local partners within the state of Florida to help coordinate urgent needs for Florida animal shelters before, during, and after disasters. Outside of UF, Keegan is an artist, business owner, and a certified Art Therapy Practitioner.
Marnie Russ
Shelter Consultant
Marnie Russ is a nationally recognized leader in neonatal kitten care, program development, and animal advocacy. With over two decades of experience fostering neonatal kittens, Marnie specializes in critical-care neonates and high-risk nursing/expectant queens. Marnie’s expertise is widely respected, and in 2023 & 2025, she collaborated with UC Davis and the University of Wisconsin to update neonatal kitten care guidelines for mass distribution. Her best practices have been implemented worldwide, helping organizations maximize resources and save more kittens. In June 2024, she launched National Kitten College as a 501(c)(3), further expanding her impact on neonatal kitten care and shelter program development.
Elsa Kohlbus
Clinic Consultant
Elsa has more than 15 years of experience working with national and international spay/neuter organizations in both leadership and technical staff roles. She began her career as a veterinary technician, and her extensive work in southern communities with limited access to veterinary care gives her unique insight into the challenges faced. She uses this perspective to help organizations find practical, innovative solutions to expand their reach and impact. As founder of be. Spay-Neuter Consulting, her hands-on approach, rooted in the belief that empowering staff and fostering collaboration are essential to sustainable, high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter (HQHVSN) programs, have guided clinics across the country.
Dr. Mike Greenberg
Clinic Consultant
Dr. Mike Greenberg is a veterinarian whose work centers on improving animal welfare through clinical practice, research, and technology. He co-founded the Veterinary Care Accessibility Project, a nonprofit organization developing data-driven tools to help shelters, clinics, and policymakers understand and address gaps in veterinary access. Dr. Greenberg focuses on high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter (HQHVSN) and accessible care clinics. He has also championed non-surgical sterilization as a promising innovation in population control. In addition to his clinical and research work, Dr. Greenberg co-authored “Every Nose Counts”, a book on using data in animal shelters, and brings a strong background in pet health technology as co-founder of Petszel, a platform that provides post-adoption support to shelters and adopters.
Dr. Maria Serrano
Shelter Consultant
Dr. Maria Serrano is an accomplished veterinarian with over 20 years of clinical and surgical expertise, including 13 years leading veterinary and forensic teams at one of the largest municipal shelters. She has assisted in developing one of the largest TNR programs nationwide with over 18K+ surgeries performed annually and a high-volume, high-quality, tech driven heartworm treatment process that successfully treats over 500 dogs per year. She is a skilled mentor and leader to a team of 10 veterinarians and 36 technicians.
Meredith Hippert
Shelter Consultant
For over a decade, Meredith Hippert has led operations for large-scale veterinary and TNR programs across the U.S. and internationally. Her experience includes training veterinary teams in high-volume techniques, coordinating wide-reaching TNR and preventative care campaigns, and managing veterinary services at a high-intake municipal shelter. Meredith excels in fast-paced environments and is passionate about sharing practical strategies to expand access to care and improve program efficiency.
Dr. Julie Levy
Founder
Dr. Julie Levy is the Fran Marino Professor of Shelter Medicine Education at UF, focusing on the health and welfare of animals in shelters, feline infectious diseases, and humane alternatives for cat population control. She founded Operation Catnip, a nonprofit university-based community cat trap-neuter-return program that has spayed, neutered, and vaccinated more than 65,000 cats. In 2008, she joined Dr. Cynda Crawford to found Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Program at UF, and in 2014 joined Dr. Kate Hurley to launch the Million Cat Challenge, a campaign to save millions of cats in North American shelters.
Dr. Kate Hurley
Founder
Dr. Kate Hurley began her career as an animal control officer, leaving after six years to attend the UC Davis School of Veterinary. She was the first in the world to undertake a residency in Shelter Medicine, during which she investigated and characterized one of the first documented outbreaks of Virulent Systemic Feline Calicivirus. She has done extensive research on diseases affecting dogs and cats in shelters and the relationship between their housing, health, wellness, and adoption. She is director of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program and co-founder of the Million Cat Challenge.
PATNERING ORGANIZATIONS
MADE POSSIBLE BY MADDIE
Maddie’s Fund® is a family foundation established in 1994 by Dave and Cheryl Duffield and is the fulfillment of a promise to an inspirational dog, Maddie. She provided them much joy from 1987 – 1997 and continues to inspire them today.
The Foundation has awarded over $255 million in grants toward increased community lifesaving, pioneering shelter medicine education and establishing foster care as a standard across the U.S.
Maddie’s Fund® proudly offers the industry a national voice, important funding opportunities for bold ideas, learning resources and access to collaborate and share innovative solutions. The Foundation invests its resources in a commitment to keeping pets and people together, creating a safety net of care for animals in need and operating within a culture of inclusiveness and humility. #ThanksToMaddie.
A collaboration of UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, Shelter Medicine Program at UF, Open Door Veterinary Collective, Team Shelter USA, be. Spay-Neuter Consulting, National Kitten College, and M&M Veterinary and Shelter Strategies.
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge s creating transformative “communities of practice” that deliver access to care through humane, community-centric programming—inside and outside of the shelter—to achieve the right outcome for every pet. Our consultative mentoring services are holistic, deep and practical, and delivered by the proven team who brought you the Million Cat Challenge, in expanded partnership with Open Door Veterinary Collective, be. Spay-Neuter Consulting, National Kitten College, and M&M Veterinary and Shelter Strategies. This program is made available at no cost to participants, #ThanksToMaddie