Susan Gayle Wynn, DVM

Dr Wynn graduated from the University of Georgia in 1987, having been elected a Phi Zeta honor society member and receiving a certificate of merit in small animal medicine. She completed a one year internship in small animal medicine at Friendship Hospital for Animals in Washington DC, where she developed an interest in complementary veterinary medicine by watching successful treatment of many chronic cases by a homeopathic veterinarian.

When she returned to Atlanta in 1989, she co-founded Pets Are Loving Support for people with AIDS, an organization that financially and physically supports people with AIDS to enable them to keep their pets. She recently completed post-doctoral research in viral and vaccine immunology at Emory University School of Medicine. Her research concentrated on the potential for canine vaccine viruses to cause autoimmune thyroiditis in susceptible animals.

Dr Wynn has served as faculty for Evening at Emory in the Searching for Medical Alternatives course, and assisted in teaching Emory medical students in complementary medicine. She is the Executive Director of the Georgia Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, which was founded in 1994 to educate veterinarians about the advantages of using complementary medical methods. She is a former National Secretary of the International Association for Veterinary Homeopathy, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association. Dr Wynn is founder of the Veterinary Botanical Medicine Association and its executive director.

Dr Wynn is the author of a number of scientific and clinical papers, and has lectured on the subject of complementary and alternative veterinary medicine in the United States, Canada, and England. She also has served on ad hoc panels for the National Eye Institute and the Office of Alternative Medicine for the National Institutes of Health. She co-edited (with Allen M Schoen, DVM) Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine: Principles and Practice, a textbook for veterinarians, which was published in 1998 by Mosby. She has a new book titled Emerging Therapies: Using Herbs and Nutraceutical Supplements for Small Animals, which was published by AAHA Press in the fall of 1999.