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Dr. Berzins holds both a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Biology from Stanford University, a PhD in Zoology from University of California, Berkeley, and a DVM from the University of California, Davis. She completed a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship program in Comparative Pathology from The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore and she is currently working on a Masters of Public Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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