Dr. Marie Holowaychuk is a specialist in emergency and critical care living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is an accomplished speaker, locum, consultant, researcher, and advocate for wellness in the veterinary profession. She grew up in Edmonton and after two years of pre-veterinary medicine at the University of Alberta, she attended the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 2004 and then completed a year-long rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Washington State University. Thereafter, she completed a 3-year small animal emergency and critical care residency at North Carolina State University. After becoming board certified in 2008, Dr. Holowaychuk accepted a faculty position at the Ontario Veterinary College (University of Guelph) where she was Assistant Professor of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and helped train ten emergency and critical care residents. She also mentored interns, graduate students, and veterinary students in clinical research, facilitating their co-authorship on veterinary publications. In 2013, she moved back home to Alberta to live closer to her family and childhood friends.
Since her departure from academia, Dr. Holowaychuk has provided emergency and critical care locum coverage across Canada and the USA. She has spoken at the International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (IVECCS) meeting and American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) forum, in addition to many other general practitioner and veterinary technician continuing education programs. She also offers consulting services for general or emergency veterinary practices, as well as research projects and programs. She has been primary or co-author of more than 25 manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals and she recently co-edited a textbook on veterinary transfusion medicine and blood banking. Dr. Holowaychuk is an Assistant Editor for the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care and serves on the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC) Scientific Committee. Outside of veterinary medicine, Marie is a certified yoga teacher and has completed mindfulness training, and she volunteers as a yoga instructor for veterinary students and professionals. When she is not working, Marie enjoys practicing yoga, running, swimming, and hiking with her standard poodle named Faith.