Staff and Faculty Q&A

Since 2016, veterinary technician Eva Downs has been committed to helping WSU provide the best care to our patients.

Shelley Ensign has been providing the highest levels of care to clients and their pets at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital for nearly two decades.

Carly Collings is one of our friendly patient services coordinators who greet you when you and your pet arrive at WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital for an appointment. Carly, who studied and graduated from WSU with a degree in anthropology and a minor in sociology, joined our team in September.

Large animal patient services coordinator Travis Bauer has been helping to ensure the WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s clients and patients receive the best possible care since he joined the team in November 2020.

Since joining the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s team one year ago as an animal technician, Cynthia Buss has helped to provide exceptional care to pets in the Small Animal Intensive Care Unit. She is currently enrolled in online courses to become a licensed veterinary technician.

Teri Olson is a licensed veterinary technician in equine surgery at the WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital. She has helped to care for horses and other large animals while ensuring students receive the best possible training for nearly three decades.

Lori Lutskas is a licensed veterinary technician and certified canine rehabilitation practitioner in the Integrative Medicine and Rehabilitation service at WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

Chris Dumas is a licensed veterinary technician with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s small animal surgery team.

Thea Leigh Lara is a nationally certified pharmacy technician at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. She and our pharmacy team work closely with our veterinarians and staff to provide safe and effective drug therapy to our animal patients.

Holly Cummings is a technician in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging Department, where she helps to support nearly every service in the hospital to diagnose patients and develop the best treatment plans.