Nilanthi Kulasekara has over 25 years of experience as a veterinarian. She has worked in emergency animal hospitals in Massachusetts, Maryland, and California, and most recently as a full-time relief veterinarian concurrently at three emergency hospitals in the East Bay. She co-founded the first multi-doctor private veterinary hospital in Sri Lanka with two colleagues in 1996 and her hospital provides care for the pets of diplomats from several countries. Dr. Kulasekara also completed an internship in Anesthesia and Critical Care at Tufts University and an externship in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery at North Carolina State University. She received her BVSc (Hons) from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka [citation][2][3].