Nicole Dickerson RVT, VTS (ECC)

Nicole Dickerson has been working in the Bay Area as a registered veterinary technician for the last 11 years. Before then, she worked as a free-lance Equity stage manager for theatres such as Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre, and Teatro Zinzanni. After volunteering at the SF/SPCA cat claw clipping clinic, she decided to return to school and graduated from Carrington College's veterinary technology program in 2010. It was immediately apparent that veterinary emergency medicine carried with it the same multi-tasking urgency as the stage management world, and that was where Nicole naturally gravitated, earning her VTS in Emergency and Critical Care in 2018. She enthusiastically shares her knowledge through lectures and presentations at conferences, webinars, and symposiums on some of her favorite subjects for technicians, including the respiratory system, emergency anesthesia, and drug toxicities. After working with cats and dogs in emergency and specialty hospitals for the majority of her career, Nicole recently transitioned into laboratory animal medicine, and now supervises a veterinary technician team through work with multiple species. She serves on the CVMA’s House of Delegates and RVT Committee, has been published in the NAVTA journal, hosts the podcast "Cat Disgusted," and is honored to have traveled to Puerto Rico as a volunteer anesthetist for the Humane Society of the United States’ Spayathon for PR^TM.