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My professional career has spanned over four decades and has been most rewarding. I began my career as an intern and resident in small animal internal medicine. I was a member of the founding faculty at Mississippi State University college of Veterinary Medicine and became enamored in the potential advances in veterinary education. My academic clinical practice at MSU and later at Tuskegee Institute, ultimately led to my entering graduate school at North Carolina University and receiving a PhD in comparative immunology. I then returned to Tuskegee as Dept. head, and then MSU as Associate Dean followed by my accepting a position as Associate Dean and founding member at Western University of Health Sciences. I ultimately became Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and served in that capacity for fifteen years. I recently stepped down as Dean (September 1, 2022), and have rejoined the faculty while I decide what I want to be when I grow up!

Dr Peter Weinstein is a husband, father, pet parent, veterinarian and leader He has been involved with virtually all aspects of veterinary practice from a 15 year old kennel kid to a hospital owner. Organized veterinary medicine has been a passion as well with various roles and leadership and presidencies of Southern California VMA, California VMA, and Vet Partners. He is a published author, most notably of the EMyth Veterinarian-Why Most Veterinary Practices Don’t Work and What to Do About It. Currently, among other things, he is teaching business and finance at the Veterinary College of Western University of Health Sciences. He likes to think of himself as a free thinking change agent and disruptor who, because he has a daughter in veterinary school, is working for an even better veterinary profession in the future.