Nellie Goetz, DVM, MPH

Nellie Goetz, DVM, MPH

Dr. Nellie Goetz is an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona’s College of Veterinary Medicine where she teaches in the second-year Anesthesia and Surgery courses and also runs an elective Community Cat Management Course. She received her DVM from The Ohio State in 2005 and her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017. From 2012 to 2014, she was the Medical Director of the National Spay/Neuter Response Team at the Humane Alliance in Asheville, NC. She also most recently served as the [MOU1] Executive Director of Altered Tails, the largest non-profit spay/neuter organization in Arizona.

Her research interests include veterinary outreach to underserved communities, shelter best practices, environmental health disparities in American Indian communities, and high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter (HQHVSN) practices & protocols. Dr. Goetz is a member of the Development Committee for the Association of Shelter Veterinarians, the Veterinary Special Interest Group of the American Public Health Association, and is an Advisory Council member for the Native America Humane Society. Dr. Goetz and her husband (also a shelter veterinarian) share their lives with an assortment of cats, dogs, and two guinea pigs named Grace Potter and Jean Luc Picard. She enjoys traveling with her husband, cooking, gardening, and identifying the various Arizona desert wildlife that live in the backyard.