Alumni Staff & Leadership
Veterinary Medical Alumni Society
The following board members were elected by a majority vote during the general election held at the VMAS Awards Celebration and Annual Meeting at the Penn Annual Conference, March 12, 2009.
Executive Board Officers - 2009
PRESIDENT:
Carla Chieffo, V'86 GR'98
PRESIDENT-ELECT:
Peter Herman, V'69
Executive Board Members - 2009
Heather Berst, V’00
Hank Croft, V’78
Kristin Dance, V’98
Susan Emeigh Hart, V’83
Susan Jacobson, V’77
Eileen Mera, V’86
Dominick Pulice, V’86
Linda Rhodes, V’78
William Solomon, V’68
Sheldon Steinberg, V’59
Brenda Stewart, V’70
Robert Stewart, Jr., V’99
Raymond Stock, V’75 GGS’02
Jacob Werner, V’00
Alexandra Wetherill, V’80
Active Past Presidents - 2009
Eric Bregman, V’95
Jack Bregman, V’66
Michael R. Moyer, V’90
Suzanne Smith, V’82
James V. Stewart, V’68
Robert Stewart, Sr., V’68
Marilyn Weber, V’75
The mission of the Veterinary Medical Alumni Society (VMAS) is to promote the interests of the veterinary school and the alumni society, to encourage and perpetuate the spirit of good feeling and commonality of interests among matriculating graduates and other professionals who have furthered their learning experience at Penn Vet (residents, interns, post-doctoral candidates and fellows), and to assist the school to advance veterinary education, students, and administration.
The goals of the society are accomplished by support of alumni annual giving, publications, educational meetings, and social events, all of which provide opportunities for exchange among the School's alumni, faculty, students, and administration.
All graduates of the school and its advanced degree programs are members of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Alumni Society.
Office of Alumni Relations Staff
Coreen Haggerty, Director of Alumni Relations
Coreen Haggerty is currently the Director of Alumni Relations for Penn Veterinary Medicine. Prior to her appointment, Coreen served as the special events coordinator for the School, running the annual Penn Annual Conference. Before her time at Penn, Coreen directed the only nationally accredited continuing medical education program for physicians in the state of Delaware where she was responsible for facilitating almost 1,000 hours of education for the state medical society. There she also managed several volunteer committees related to environmental and public health, aging, school health and education and served on several state and national initiatives including the Healthy Delaware 2010 Steering & Development Committees, Attorney General’s Task Force on Animal Cruelty and Violence and Governor’s Council on Cancer Incidence and Mortality. Before this, Coreen marketed long-term care contracts in the admissions department of the Kendal retirement communities.
Coreen has served on the boards of Delaware’s animal shelters and advocacy groups, but her combined affinity for medicine and animal care blossomed through her work in client support at a Delaware veterinary emergency center. She spends much of her free time fostering and transporting rescued American Eskimo dogs for a national breed rescue group. She has two Eskies of her own.
Coreen graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Communication from West Chester University in Pennsylvania, and completed undergraduate coursework at the University of Delaware.
Coreen can be reached at 215.898.1481 and haggertc@vet.upenn.edu.