Meet Our Team
Adjunct Associate Professor of Shelter Medicine
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
University of Florida
griffb@vetmed.ufl.edu
Dr. Griffin is a 1990 graduate of the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine. After completing an internship at the MSPCA's Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in 1991, she spent time working in general small animal practice as well as in animal shelters before pursuing a residency in small animal internal medicine at Auburn University. She became board certified in this specialty in 2000.
For the past decade, Dr. Griffin has worked to establish and support clinical training programs in shelter medicine first at the veterinary college at Auburn, later at Cornell and currently at UF. She provides instructional support to veterinary residents and students. In addition, she serves as a consultant to the National Spay Neuter Response team of Humane Alliance.
Dr. Griffin was a founding member of the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs in 2000, the recipient of the AVMA's Bustad Companion Animal Veterinarian of the Year Award in 2003 and was named by PETsMART Charities as a national spay-neuter mentor in 2006. Dr. Griffin has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians since 2004 and the Veterinary Task Force to Advance Spay Neuter since 2006. She is a regular columnist for Animal Sheltering Magazine.
Her passions and research interests surround strategies to keep cats and dogs out of shelters. These include sterilization methods and promoting behavioral wellness and pet identification. Her lifelong hobby is dog training. She and her husband share their home with 6 dogs, 5 cats and 2 goats.
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