Rate My Professor Bobbi Conner

Bobbi Conner, DVM, DACVECC, is Clinical Professor of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, a role she assumed in 2025 after serving as Clinical Associate Professor there from 2020 to 2025. She obtained her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Michigan State University in 2007 and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Grand Valley State University in 2003. A diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care since 2011, her career encompasses Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Florida from 2019 to 2020 and Clinical Assistant Professor from 2012 to 2019, Head Intensive Care Unit Doctor and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pretoria from 2011 to 2012, an Emergency and Critical Care residency at North Carolina State University from 2008 to 2011, and a small animal rotating internship at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from 2007 to 2008.

Conner's research specializations include the scholarship of teaching, learning, and assessment, with inquiries into optimal teaching methods across subjects and settings as well as the suitability of traditional student assessment approaches, alongside veterinary hemostasis encompassing coagulation, thrombosis, and fibrinolysis. She guides the required emergency and critical care course for third-year students in small animal, mixed animal, and public/corporate veterinary tracks, stressing critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and problem-solving over rote memorization. Notable publications feature "Systematic evaluation of evidence on veterinary viscoelastic testing part 4: definitions and data reporting" in the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (2014), "Treating hypoalbuminemia" in Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice (2017), "Coagulation abnormalities in 5 cats with naturally occurring cytauxzoonosis" in the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (2015), "Development of a Formative Assessment Rubric for Peer Evaluation of Teaching (FARPET) and Pilot Use in Veterinary Online Teaching" in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (2021), and "Specifications Grading for Veterinary Medicine" (2022). Professional affiliations include the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society, and Southeastern Veterinary Education Consortium. She is committed to enhancing equity in veterinary medicine by mitigating barriers to veterinary school admissions and specialty care access.