Dr. Devlin has
known for as long as she can remember that she wanted to help both
animals and their human companions. She is pursuing her life's dream
and her calling by working as a veterinarian.
Dr. Devlin
was born and raised on her family’s farm in the
Delaware Watershed Area of Salem County, New Jersey. She was the middle
child of three: daughter of Marie, a high school math teacher and
mother, and son of Larry, county Health Officer and talented musician
and farmer. She was raised to know the love and support of her family,
the hard work and rewards of farming life, and the joys of caring
for the animals on the farm, domestic and wild.
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Dr. Devlin
attended Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA, majoring
in Biology. While at Ursinus, she participated in a 2-year honor's
research project titled Cloning of the s-adenosylmethionine
(Sam-e) permease gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Dr. Devlin
was inducted into the Tri-Beta Honor Society and was
awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute honor for her work on the
project.
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Following college, Dr. Devlin
worked at Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceutical as a research
technician in the Women's Health Division. In 1995, she left that
job to move to Marietta, GA to accept a position as Laboratory Technician
for CryoLife, Inc. After 18 months of intense training, including
acquiring her Certification in Micro vascular Surgery from Emory Medical
School, Dr. Devlin
was promoted to the position of Dissecting Technician.
Her primary responsibility was to prepare human tissue, such as heart
valves and saphenous veins, for cryopreservation and transplantation.
Because of her background in research study, Dr. Devlin
was also placed on the Mitral Valve Project, for which
she gathered information on the size and structure of human mitral
valves.
From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Devlin attended University of
Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. For Dr. Devlin, it was the
experience of a lifetime. In May 2000, she graduated Summa Cum Laude,
and was awarded her Doctorate degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Devlin has now worked in the veterinary profession
for over 13 years. Even while attending college and working for CryoLife,
she worked and volunteered part-time hours at local veterinary hospitals.
Her experiences include a 1 year internship at University of Pennsylvania’s
New Bolton Center, a state-of-the-art equine facility in Kennett Square,
PA; a summer’s internship at “Veterinary Economics Hospital
of the Year - Sandy Veterinary Clinic” in Salt Lake City, Utah;
and more recently at Bear Veterinary Center in Delaware. She has worked
as an Associate Veterinarian in and around Knoxville for almost four
years.
Dr. Devlin lives in South Knoxville and shares her life
with her fiancé Steve, her two dogs Sydney and Gracie, and
her very independent cat Calaloo. She divides her time between caring
for her beloved patients at Boyd’s Creek Animal Hospital and
pursuing her interests in cycling, running, gardening, and travel.
