Joe Durso graduated with a BS in Veterinary Technology from Mercy College in New York, where he passed the NYS licensure Exams, as well as the AALAS Laboratory Animal Technologist Exam. In pursuit of Veterinary Medical Excellence he completed a large Animal externship at Green Chimney’s in Brewster, NY, a Laboratory Animal Externship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a Small Animal Externship at the Animal Medical Center in Manhattan where he continued on in the Surgery Department working in Surgery and Emergency and Critical Care. Joe has worked, lectured, and taught in multiple Hospitals and colleges in New York and Connecticut over the past 30 years, and loves to raise the level of Veterinary Medicine through education. He joined VCA VREC in 2006, and has remained since. He presently coordinates the Veterinary Assistant Program at Norwalk Community College where he teaches in both the Veterinary Technician and Assistant programs as well.