Tara Reilly, DVM, cVMA

I was born and raised in Colorado where I did search and rescue, managed a ranch, trained horses and competed in college rodeo. I went to both college and veterinary school at Colorado State University and I participated in medical externships at the Wildlife Center of Virginia, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo (NE), and the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CO). After completing my doctorate, I performed a wildlife medicine internship at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota where I treated more than 4,000 animal patients, performed hundreds of procedures and surgeries, and released thousands of animals back into the wild after they recovered. Prior to coming the Virginia Zoo, I was the Veterinarian for the Roosevelt Park Zoo (ND) and the Fort Worth Zoo (TX). (Source)