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Emily Tincher

DVM

Emily M. Tincher (Auburn '16, Kentucky '12) is a second-generation veterinarian focused on developing the leadership and communications skills necessary to best serve pets and their owners. She completed an emergency-focused a rotating internship at a private practice in Kentucky. After this, she moved to Philadelphia where she is an emergency doctor in a specialty referral hospital, Hope Veterinary Specialists. She is a National Adviser for the Veterinary Business Management Association and proud National VBMA Board alumna ('15). Emily believes that relationship building and helping others to be their best professional self through servant leadership can ignite true change in the veterinary profession. She continues to find avenues such as the AVMA Early Career Development Committee and the Veterinary Leadership Institute to promote this positive change. Over the last three years, she has lectured and facilitated at numerous national conventions in the professional development track. Outside of veterinary medicine, Emily enjoys all University of Kentucky sports, competing her horse in the sport of Eventing, and spending time with her husband and two perfect dogs.