Meet Holly Haefele

Holly Haefele is Fossil Rim’s lead Veterinarian. She was born in New Jersey and moved to Massachusetts at age 4. She did a wildlife internship in her junior year of high school where she worked in the wildlife clinic at Tufts University. Her undergraduate thesis was on feral horse behavior, which she studied while living in tents for 2 months on an island in North Carolina with 6 other students. She graduated from Tufts University in 2000 with a degree in Veterinary medicine and started her career as a small animal associate in Massachusetts in August of 2000. During her last year in vet school she came out to Fossil Rim as a Preceptor in the spring of 1999 and was subsequently hired in April of 2004. She took over the lead vet position from Dr. Robin Radcliffe when he moved back to the Northeast this summer.

Holly likes the country setting of Glen Rose and bought a home near the Paluxy where she lives with her whippet “Sierra”. In her spare time she likes to mountain bike, hike, kayak and ski.

At the 2005 American Association of Zoo Veterinarians conference in Omaha she presented a paper on fallow deer anesthesia. In the fall of 2005 she had her first article published “Hematologic and physiologic reference ranges for free-ranging adult and young Common Loons” in the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. We are fortunate to have Holly as part of our Fossil Rim team. And wish her the best in assuming her first full year as lead vet. The responsibility and duties are tremendous but she has proved she is up to the challenge.