Dr. Tekla Lee-Fowler received her DVM from Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2005. After graduation, Dr. Lee-Fowler completed a rotating small animal internship at Mississippi State University CVM.

In 2009, she completed a residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri CVM and earned board certification in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM). During residency, Dr. Lee-Fowler earned her Master’s degree with research focusing on feline asthma. After residency, she served as a clinical instructor at the University of Missouri while completing a post-doctoral fellowship focusing on feline asthma and immunology.

Dr. Lyssens graduated from Ghent University in 2018 and completed a rotating internship there before completing a specialist internship followed by a residency in internal medicine at the University of Liège. She obtained the title of European specialist in internal medicine in April 2024.

Nicki is originally from Edinburgh and graduated from The University of Edinburgh in 1988. After 11 years in general practice, she returned to her home town to run the small animal practice at The University of Edinburgh. Subsequently Nicki became the Feline Advisory Bureau (now International Cat Care) Resident in Feline Medicine and gained her Royal College Diploma in Feline Medicine in 2008 followed by the European College Diploma in Internal Medicine in 2009. Having progressed to Senior Lecturer and Head of the Feline Clinic, Nicki left The University of Edinburgh in 2015 to focus on clinical work. Nicki was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2020.

She is one of only two vets in Scotland to be recognised as a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Specialist in Feline Medicine and has written several journal articles and book chapters in the field of Feline Medicine, as well as having lectured widely in this area in the Uk and abroad. Nicki shares her house with a slightly senile geriatric British Shorthair called Grace.

Growing up outside of Chicago, near the Brookfield Zoo, Dr. ElizabethLiz Rozanski developed a love for veterinary medicine from age five. As a member of the Foster Hospital for Small Animals' Emergency and Critical Care team, she treats animals at one of the nation's busiest academic emergency rooms. She is board-certified in both internal medicine and emergency and critical care.

Dr. Rozanski graduated from the University of Illinois with her DVMdegree. After completing a residency in Philadelphia, she was drawn to Tufts by the position's combination of research, teaching, and service. She teaches toxicology and respiratory medicine throughout the four-year Cummings School DVM curriculum, and lectures in others. I love the students, she says. They are a continued source of inspiration and enthusiasm.

She has also been involved in student efforts to provide free rabies vaccinations in low-income housing in the City of Worcester, serves as a faculty mentor for summer student research projects, has raised funds for the American Heart Association (with her dog, Brie, named after one of her favorite cases at the Foster Hospital) through the Central Massachusetts Heart Walk, and lectures often at continuing education and community events. She is also the past president of the Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society.

Dr. Rozanski's primary research interest is in respiratory function in small animals, and she recently co-authored, with the help of fellow faculty member Dr. John Rush, A Color Handbook of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (Manson, 2007). She lives near the school's Grafton campus with, as she notes, a menagerie of pets—all rescues.