Dr. Kathy Kero is a native Californian who received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Ohio State University in 1993.  Following graduation, she left the Big 10 but not her love for Buckeye football, moving to SEC territory where she completed a year of post-graduate training at Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine.  There  she developed her love of teaching clients and students.  The road from Starkville, MS took Dr. Kero to Memphis, TN where she spent 8 years in general practice and emergency medicine.  In 2002, her passion for teaching students led Dr. Kero to Athens, GA and a faculty position at The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine (Go Dawgs!).  Dr. Kero devoted the next 9 years of her veterinary career to training veterinary students how to develop the technical and communication skills necessary to become the best general practitioners they could be.  In 2011, Dr. Kero left academia and returned to emergency medicine, joining the VCA family as Medical Director of an emergency hospital in Tucker, GA.  With the closure of that hospital, Dr. Kero continued practicing emergency medicine with VCA in Atlanta until March 2018 when she became the Medical Director at VCA Pets Are People Too – Chamblee.

When Dr. Kero is not at the hospital, she is back at home in Athens spending time with her wife of 14 years and 3 beautiful daughters.  Together they care for their family of cats, dogs and guinea pigs.  In her free time, Dr. Kero loves  to relax with woodworking, home improvement projects, yard work, and, of course, watching Buckeye and Dawgs football.