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Dr. Shannon Henry

DVM

A Southern California native, Dr. Henry knew from a very young age that she wanted to be involved in emergency medicine.

She started her career in Colorado as an emergency medical technician and then as a paramedic working on ambulances, helicopters, and Learjets.

After more than a decade, Dr. Henry decided she wanted to do more and combined her love of emergency medicine with her love for animals, pursuing her veterinary career at Ross University in St. Kitts, West Indies. Dr. Henry completed her clinical year at the University of Illinois before returning home to California. She worked in primary care medicine for a year until she felt the call to return to her emergency medicine roots.

Dr. Henry enjoys playing softball, golf, scuba diving, and reading in her spare time. She shares her home with a standard dachshund named Dodger.