Who’s Your Type? Transfusion Medicine

Karen Roach, RVT, VTS, is originally from the east coast of Canada. She graduated from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College’s Animal Health Technology program in 1994. In 1997, after working for several years in general practice, she accepted a position with the newly opened Metro Animal Emergency Clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which was the first after- hours veterinary emergency clinic to open in Atlantic Canada. In 2000, she completed a1-year veterinary technician internship at the Animal Medical Center in New York, NY. It was here that Ms. Roach developed a keen interest in anesthesia, as well as emergency and critical care medicine. After completing the internship, she returned to the Metro Animal Emergency Clinic, and eventually began working toward becoming a veterinary technician specialist in emergency/critical care. She completed this designation in 2013, and in June 2014, left her native Canada and to move to New Jersey. After 4 years at NorthStar Vets in Robbinsville, she decided to make a change, and become a training mentor at Mount Laurel Animal Hospital in September 2018.