Cristie Kamiya,  DVM, MBA, CAWA

Cristie Kamiya, DVM, MBA, CAWA

Dr. Cristie Kamiya is Chief of Shelter Medicine at Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV) where she oversees Medical Operations and Animal Welfare Advancement initiatives. She is one of a handful of residency-trained shelter veterinarians in the country and holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree and a Master of Business Administration degree from Colorado State University. Prior to the start of her residency at UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program in 2010, Dr. Kamiya worked as a shelter veterinarian in humane societies, municipal shelters, and rescues in the Denver-Boulder areas of Colorado, and the greater Phoenix metro area of Arizona.

Since completing the residency, Dr. Kamiya has consulted and presented on various shelter medicine topics nationally and internationally. In 2017, Dr. Kamiya led HSSV in being the first shelter in the country to complete and document all of the Association of Shelter

Veterinarians Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters, and in 2020 became a Certified Animal Welfare Administrator through The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement. Dr. Kamiya has a soft spot for community cats, and she enjoys traveling and volunteering with organizations that provide veterinary support for under-served areas in the U.S. and internationally. In her free time, Dr. Kamiya delights in fostering underage shelter kittens and spending time gardening or playing outdoors with her adopted shelter dogs.