Dr. Erin Goodrich is a 2008 graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine. She has practiced veterinary medicine in two mixed animal clinics in upstate New York. During that time she provided emergency surgery and routine veterinary care to a variety of species including cattle, horses, donkeys, small ruminants, dogs and cats, with the majority of her time being allotted to dairy production medicine. She then joined Cornell’s Animal Health Diagnostic Center in 2013 as a member of the Veterinary Support Services team. In this capacity, she works to provide diagnostic support to veterinarians in their daily encounters with disease outbreaks, control, and surveillance. She also provides educational outreach to practicing veterinarians in a variety of forms. She enjoys collaborative research focused on infectious disease and diagnostics. She teaches courses to third and fourth year veterinary students about diagnostics as well as veterinary care and management of the donkey, which has become her favorite species. In fact, she teaches the only elective class in any veterinary school in the western hemisphere (and possibly the world) on the care and medicine of donkeys. Her contributions to The Donkey Welfare Symposium have been many over the years, including hosting the meeting at Cornell one year. In this 14th annual version she will turn her considerable laboratory diagnostic experience to talking about the laboratory diagnosis of neurologic disease in donkeys. This would include West Nile and Eastern Encephalitis viruses, Protozoal Myelitis, and Herpes viruses that present difficult diagnostic challenges to veterinarians, not to mention frightening symptoms for donkeys and their owners. In 2024 she was instrumental in producing and excellent video on handling donkey emergencies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7VgSO7eAsY which all donkey owners should view.