Dr. Margie Scherk is a private practitioner and founder of Cats Only Veterinary Clinic, in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from the University of Guelph in 1982 with a DVM from the Ontario Veterinary College. In 1995 she became board certified in the specialty of Feline Practice by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (ABVP). One of the things she is most proud of is her pioneering the use of the Transdermal Fentanyl Patch for the alleviation of pain in companion animals. She has collaborated and co-authored several other papers; she has written a chapter for the 2005 edition of Ettinger and Feldman's Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine as well as several other chapters in other texts. She is honoured to serve the American Association of Feline Practitioners as President during 2007. She has the privilege of being on the AAFP/AFM Feline Vaccine Recommendations Panel. She has volunteered on the ABVP exam committee and the CE committee and has served on the scientific advisory committee for the World Small Animal Veterinary Congress and been the editor of the WSAVA Proceedings for the Vancouver 2001 meeting. As a participant on the North American Veterinary Licensing Exam Committee (NAVLE), she interacts with top teachers and practitioners to create a fair way of assessing the competence of new graduates. She founded and co-edits the Feline Internal Medicine folder on Veterinary Information Network (VIN), and through many opportunities on the online medium, has grown to love teaching veterinarians, vet students and veterinary care providers both online and around the world. She has a lot of fun co-ordinating the feline intensive week at the NAVC Institute every summer. She is the North American editor for the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery. In "real life", she is the mom of two teenagers (one poet/musician and one actor), the wife of a veterinary clinical pathologist, the provider for a large clowder of cats, is an avid gardener, and plots ways to continue providing work for contractors and tradesmen in her home while reading and exercising.

Last updated: January 2007