Tracy Darling, RVT, VTS (Sm. Animal Internal Medicine)
Patient Care Supervisor
Tracy was born and raised in Orange County, CA and recently moved to Ventura to join the Anacapa team as Patient Care Supervisor. Tracy has been working as a veterinary technician since 1995 and became a Registered Veterinary Technician in 2001. In 2005, she was awarded the Outstanding RVT of the Year in Private Practice award by the California Veterinary Medical Association. She had worked for 12 years in a feline specialty hospital and has prior experience working in critical care and equine practices.
Tracy is also a member of a National Veterinary Response Team, which is a team of veterinary professionals that are specially trained to respond to national disasters where animal care is needed. One of her most recent deployments was in response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 where she was sent to the New Orleans area to assess damages to the animal agriculture community, treat search and rescue canines in the field, as well as to care for the thousands of pets displaced by this tremendous event. She was also deployed the following year to Georgia in preparation for Tropical Storm Ernesto. Tracy also volunteers her time and skills to Rural Area Veterinary Services, a non-profit organization that provides veterinary medical care to animals in remote areas of the country where veterinary care is not available. She has traveled to indian reservations in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and even Alaska in order to provide medical care and preventative care education to the people and pets of these communities.
Continuing education is important to Tracy. She is a graduate of the Academy of Veterinary Imaging, where she is one of the first veterinary technicians in the nation to have completed coursework in advanced veterinary imaging. This program, the first of its kind, includes instruction in small animal ultrasound, MRI, CT, digital radiography, and nuclear medicine. She is also one of the first RVTs to become a Veterinary Technician Specialists (VTS) in the area of small animal internal medicine in the nation.
Tracy lives in Ventura with her husband Eric and their three dogs, Harry, Jake, Jackie, and their three cats, Nate, Jimmy, and Minky. In her spare time she enjoys photography, gardening, walking her dogs on the beach and watching movies.
Tracy is an active member of the following organizations:
- American Animal Hospital Association
- Academy of Internal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians
- California Veterinary Medical Association RVT Committee Member
- Disaster Response Coordinator-California Veterinary Medical Association
- ACVR Ultrasound Society
- ASVDT-Qualified Veterinary Dental Technician
