Dr. Peggy Root Kustritz is a 1987 graduate of the University of Minnesota College
of Veterinary Medicine. After working in small animal private practice in the
Twin Cities for several years, she returned to the University of Minnesota,
completing a residency in theriogenology under Dr. Shirley Johnston. She achieved
board certification in theriogenology in 1994, and completed a PhD in theriogenology
in 1995, with a thesis entitled "The effect of prepuberal and postpuberal
gonadectomy on the general health and development of obesity in the male and
female domestic cat". She currently is employed as an associate professor
in small animal reproduction at the University
of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, where she also serves as vice-chair
of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. She is the author, with Drs. Shirley Johnston
and Patricia Olson, of a textbook entitled "Canine and Feline Theriogenology",
published by WB Saunders Company in March 2001, and is editor of "The Practical
Veterinarian: Small Animal Theriogenology", published by Butterworth-Heinemann
in 2003, and is working on "Clinical Small Animal Theriogenology",
an evidence-based text, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2009.