Veterinary Medical Center welcomes six new clinicians
The VMC's specialty services and the College's faculty are bolstered by these new exciting additions
Get to know the most recently hired clinicians at the Veterinary Medical Center, some of whom will also join the College's faculty:
Susan Arnold, DVM, DACVIM
Arnold is an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences and a specialist in the neurology service at the Veterinary Medical Center. She obtained her DVM from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. She completed a small animal medicine and surgery rotating internship at the University of Minnesota in 2016, as well as a residency in small animal neurology and neurosurgery at the University of Georgia in 2019.
José Grenet, DVM, MPH
Grenet is an emergency and critical care specialist at the Veterinary Medical Center. He received his MPH (2015) and DVM (2016) from the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. Grenet then completed a rotating internship at Blue Pearl in Tampa, Fla., in 2017 and has been practicing emergency veterinary medicine ever since. His clinical interests include wildlife and critical care medicine, though he also enjoys neurology, nephrology, and cardiology. Grenet is fluent in Spanish and is passionate about helping companion animals in the Spanish-speaking community.
Martin Kennedy, DVM, DACVAA
Kennedy comes to the Veterinary Medical Center from MedVet Medical and Cancer Centers in Cincinnati, Ohio. He earned his BS from Cornell University in 2002 and his DVM at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine in 2011. Following graduation from veterinary school, Kennedy completed a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at the University of Minnesota and a three-year residency in anesthesia and pain management at the University of Wisconsin. He maintains an interest in all aspects of anesthesia with particular interests in total intravenous anesthesia, advanced monitoring techniques, peripheral nerve blocks, and management of critical and emergent patients.
Marina Leis, BSc, DVM, MVSc, DACVO
Leis is an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences and leads the Veterinary Medical Center’s (VMC) ophthalmology service. Equipped with research experience in both small and large companion animal ophthalmology, as well as production animal ophthalmology, Leis comes to the VMC from the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) in Canada, where she served as an assistant professor for three years. She also received her BSc (2008), DVM (2012), and MVSc (2016) from the University of Saskatchewan. She completed a small animal rotating internship at the WCVM in 2013 and an American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists residency there in 2016.
Laura Motschenbacher, DVM
Motschenbacher earned her BA from Carleton College in Northeld, Minn., in 2010. She completed her DVM at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) in 2015. Afterward, she completed a rotating internship in medicine and surgery at Blue Pearl in Chicago, Ill. in 2016. She also completed a residency in small animal internal medicine at the CVM in 2019. She served as chief resident at the Veterinary Medical Center from 2018–19.
Amanda Young, DVM, DACVD
Young is a 2011 graduate from Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She spent four years in a small animal general practice in a suburb of Chicago before completing a year-long specialty internship in dermatology at the University of Illinois. Young recently finished her residency in comparative dermatology at the University of Minnesota. She will be filling in at the Veterinary Medical Center as needed.
