HSVMA-RAVS STAFF

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Windi Wojdak, RVT
Director, HSVMA-RAVS
Windi has more than fifteen years experience in animal welfare management, animal sheltering and emergency medicine. Before finding her passion in animal protection, she received an undergraduate degree in psychology and worked for several years as a crisis intervention counselor. Windi joined the RAVS program in 2003 managing all aspects of the U.S. field program. She assumed leadership of the program in 2011 and is continually inspired by the amazing and dedicated team of professionals who give of themselves every day to make this work possible.

Telephone: 831-335-4827
Email Windi Wojdak

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Susan Monger, DVM
Director, HSVMA-RAVS International Program
Dr. Monger graduated from the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1987. She spent 10 years in small animal private practice and has worked for HSVMA-RAVS since 1999. Fluent in Spanish, Dr. Monger organizes teaching clinics and training programs throughout Latin America and facilitates the development of sustainable veterinary outreach programs throughout the world.

Cell Phone: 512-680-3312
Email Susan Monger

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Erin Ludwig, CVT
Erin graduated from the Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology in 2002 and spent the first 6 years of her career working in small animal emergency and critical care medicine. In 2008, she decided to pursue her long sought dream of using her skills to help animals and people in need, and set out on her first RAVS field adventure. She found a passion for the work, joined the team, and hasn’t looked back. When not in the field, she enjoys her time at home outside of beautiful Boulder, Colorado, where she and her husband live with their three dogs and one cat.

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Morgan Peterman, DVM
Dr. Peterman graduated from Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2007. Prior to graduating, she served as a student volunteer with HSVMA-RAVS, an experience which both inspired her and helped to shape her career in Veterinary Medicine. In addition to her work with HSVMA, Dr. Peterman aids the success of other programs sharing similar missions. She also contributes her talents to several non-profit organizations and humane societies in her local community. Dr. Peterman has found her passion within HSVMA-RAVS through community service and student education, and she feels fortunate to have a job where both are a priority in her day to day routine. While Dr. Peterman enjoys her time at home in rural Michigan, she is always seeking out the next trip that will take her off of the well worn path.

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Kate Kuzminski, DVM
Dr. Kuzminski graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1999. After 7 years of companion animal practice, she traded practice ownership for the opportunity to realize more adventurous dreams. An HSVMA-RAVS veterinarian since 2006, Dr. Kuzminski has also worked with Veterinarians Without Borders - Canada on a canine population management project in remote Guatemala. When not being inspired by the amazing people and animals in her travels, Dr. Kuzminski likes to provide safe passage for thousands of shelter animals in her role as the Director of Shelter Medicine for the San Francisco SPCA. In her spare time she can be found playing chuckit along the west coast with her amazing rez dog Maui.

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Tammy Rouse

Tammy Rouse
Tammy has years of experience in the animal protection field, managing shelter facilities and cruelty investigations. She is the Director of the Union County Humane Society in Tennessee. Tammy has organized field clinics throughout the United States and supervises patient intake and client education for RAVS U.S. field clinics. .

Cell Phone: 865-719-7665

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Elizabeth Berliner, DVM
Dr. Berliner graduated from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2003, and has been an HSVMA-RAVS veterinarian since 2007. Prior to becoming a veterinarian, she was a charter school teacher of at-risk teens in Washington DC. Throughout veterinary school, she was actively involved in shelter medicine clubs and activities. She worked in private practice until 2008, when she became Medical Director of a Baltimore area shelter. In 2010, Dr. Berliner returned to Cornell as the Director of Clinical Programs in Shelter Medicine. When not packing for her next expedition, she can be found standing on her head in yoga class, listening to NPR, or entertaining her collection of "scratch and dent" pets. She continues to embrace teaching and community outreach as an essential part of being a veterinarian in any setting..

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Melina Stambolis, RVT
Melina has been working as a veterinary technician since 2005, after she returned from a year of traveling through South and Central America. Her love of Latin America and her Spanish language skills, along with her desire to improve veterinary medicine and animal care in developing countries led her to volunteer for an HSVMA-RAVS teaching clinic in El Salvador in 2008. She fell in love with the work and has been happy working clinics both internationally and stateside ever since. When not in the field, she can be found at the San Francisco SPCA spay/neuter clinic, and spends what little free time she has biking, cooking, dancing, singing karaoke, and watching her one-eyed dog and three-legged cat frolic in the garden.

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