Dr. Deb Zoran is a founding member and the second Director of the Texas A&M
Veterinary Emergency Team (VET). Her DVM was awarded in 1984 from Kansas State
University, followed by a PhD in nutrition from Texas A&M, where she rose to Professor
and taught small animal medicine and nutrition for 20 years. Since joining VET in 2009,
she has been on over 27 deployments to multiple types of disasters in Texas and beyond,
including wildfires in California and hurricanes in Louisiana and Florida. She helped
develop and has been a lead instructor for the required clinical rotation in Veterinary
Emergency Management to 4 th year veterinary students (the only such rotation in the US).
She is also a member of Texas A&M Task Force as veterinary support for the working
canines and serves on the FEMA Incident Support Team as a Veterinary Specialist in
support of working canines deployed to national disasters.