Ingrid K. Loeffler, DVM, PhD, MRCVS 
HumaneVMA MICHIGAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE

Dr. Loeffler (“Kati”) brings twenty-five years of experience working in developing areas of the world with domestic animals and wildlife. After completing veterinary school, a few years in veterinary practice, then graduate school and post-doctoral work, she began her international career as research veterinarian with the Smithsonian Institution. She continued working in China with giant and red pandas and as on-site veterinarian with the Animals Asia Foundation at that organization’s bile-bear rescue center in Sichuan Province. Fourteen years with the International Fund for Animal Welfare took her around the world working at the juncture of human-animal health and welfare. She returned to clinical veterinary practice in the United States in 2019 with the Access to Care movement that seeks to develop a model for affordable veterinary care for low-income households.

In her veterinary and animal welfare work around the world, Dr. Loeffler works from the deeply-rooted principle of One-Welfare: the interconnected well-being of humans and animals in households, communities, and globally. She now works with the Paw Paw Veterinary Clinic in southern Michigan.

Dr. Loeffler’s broad interests include the anthropological work of her parents, which has led to publication of a photographic ethnography of tribal pastoralists in the Middle East, co-authored with her father (2022). Dr. Loeffler speaks German and several animal languages and is forever trying to become fluent in Spanish.

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