Dr. Schrader returns to us after a year and a half working for VCA in the Bay Area of California. She was doing full time small animal practice, relief work at the Oakland Zoo and the emergency room at the local specialty clinic in addition to her US Army Reserve duty. She will continue her service as a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve Veterinary Corps, which she has been since 2015. Dr. Schrader also does relief work with the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium. 
Dr. Schrader grew up in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and earned her undergraduate degree at Clark University in Worcester, MA.

From there she moved to south for veterinary school at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville.

She graduated in 2009 and enjoyed a series of internships over the next few years.

The first was a small animal internship at the University of Georgia. Then she got involved in zoo medicine and completed internships at the Calgary Zoo. She then traveled across the Pacific to work as an associate veterinarian at the Honolulu Zoo. She followed that by working in Small animal medicine in La Quinta, CA prior to joint us in 2015.

In her free time, Dr. Schrader enjoys spending time with her two dogs, traveling, wildlife photography, sipping local brews and wines, and sitting on the beach.

She is also an ice hockey fanatic and loves her 2018 Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals.