Education: Tufts University
Dr. Miranda Hillyard grew up in Bedford, Massachusetts. After completing her undergraduate studies in Biology at Middlebury College in Vermont, Dr. Hillyard worked as a zookeeper in the Boston zoos. She then attended Tufts University’s Cummings School for Veterinary Medicine, graduating in 2011. As a veterinary student, Dr. Hillyard was involved in several international zoonotic disease research projects which took her to Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Peru. After graduating, Dr. Hillyard completed an internship at the ASPCA Animal Hospital in Manhattan, and has worked primarily as an emergency veterinarian in Washington, DC and at several facilities here in the New York City area.