My Why: To better veterinary medicine and agriculture for the next generation.
Champion Areas: Internal medicine (large- and small-animal), teaching, implementing new medical techniques or pharmaceuticals, connecting previous generations of veterinary medicine to new ones
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Dr. Anita Dennison comes to Blue Heron Consulting as a Medial Team Coach, following a period of relief veterinarian services around the United States and pursuing other practice ownership opportunities. She is a third-generation veterinarian, preceded by her father, Dr. Kent Patton, and her grandfather, Dr. OR Adams. She completed her undergraduate studies at Pepperdine University and Colorado State University in the areas of Microbiology, Biology, Anatomy and Neurobiology.
Dr. Dennison graduated from the Colorado State University Veterinary School program in 2000 and continued at CSU to pursue an Internship in Equine Internal Medicine. She then completed a Master of Science degree in the CSU Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, and a partial Residency in Food Animal Medicine and Surgery. Her work at CSU became the basis for a vaccine, now used in the US cattle industry.
Throughout her career, Dr. Dennison has owned and operated a large animal medical and surgical center, a private mixed animal practice, an online veterinary supply company, and a large animal ambulatory practice. She spent 5 years as an emergency veterinarian at Grand Valley Emergency Center in Grand Junction. She has been the on-site veterinarian for the Colorado State Fair and is the on-site veterinarian for the Mesa County Fair. She facilitated the creation and AVMA accreditation of the Colorado Mesa University Veterinary Technology Program, as Program Director.
Dr. Dennison spent many years as a consultant and Attending Veterinarian for the United States Military, law enforcement and various medical teams, providing support for human trauma medicine training.
Dr. Dennison currently owns Wine Country Veterinary Services based in Colorado, which provides relief veterinary services in multiple states and veterinary services for the local 4H and FFA. She is part owner of Animal Medical Clinic of Marquette, in the upper peninsula of Michigan. She is on the Agricultural Advisory Committee for the FFA and has previously served as the President of the Mesa County Cattlewomen Association.
Dr. Dennison and her husband have 6 children. The whole family stays involved with all aspects of animal care through ranching, farming, 4H, FFA, and agriculture on the western slope of Colorado.
