Alabama Veterinary Technician Association

10/24/2026

🎉 What a Week! But the Celebration Isn’t Over Yet! 🎉

As National Veterinary Technician Week 2026 comes to a close, NAVTA is celebrating the endless compassion, expertise, and dedication of veterinary technicians everywhere!

There’s still time to celebrate with a chance to WIN!

Join or renew your NAVTA membership TODAY and you’ll automatically be entered for a chance to win one of THREE Amazon gift cards:

🥇 $500 | 🥈 $250 | 🥉 $100

Keep the celebration going all year long by staying connected to your profession and supporting the organization advocating for veterinary technicians!

👉 https://navta.joynportal.com/

10/24/2026

☀️ Wake up! It’s Conference day! ☕️

10/23/2026

Veterinary technicians are an integral part of the healthcare team. Utilizing them fully can improve patient care, make workloads more manageable, boost team wellbeing, and increase practice revenue.

Join us during National Veterinary Technician Week for this AVMA Axon webinar and discover what optimal utilization of technicians can look like, and explore how your practice measures up against other practices and current standards. https://bit.ly/4y2xFfv

10/23/2026

Another amazing LVT shout out and a former AVTA board member! Love us some Cindy Johnson Pearson! 🎉

🐾💙Happy Vet Tech Week!💙🐾
Today we're shining the spotlight on someone who is truly the heart of our hospital: Cynthia Pearson, LVT, our hospital manager!🌟
With 21 years in the field, Cynthia has seen it all, and she still shows up every single day with the same passion for this profession. She's a champion for the next generation of vet techs always taking time to teach, mentor, and lift up the newest members of the team. Many of us have grown in our careers because she believed in us first. 🙌 Those late nights and long hours? Cynthia is behind a lot of them, making sure our team is supported and every patient gets top-tier care. She never asks for credit, so we're giving it to her loudly today!📣
Cynthia, thank you for everything you do for our team, our patients, an the families we serve. We are lucky to have you!🐶😻❤️ Drop a 💙 in the comments to show some love for Cynthia and all amazing vet techs this week! Shout out to Aaron with Merck for the awesome goody basket!🗣️

10/23/2026

As we finish out let’s take a minute to recognize and thank our current President, and a rockstar of a , Elena Graves!
Elena has been dedicated to AVTA for many years. Being an AVTA board member is a volunteer position and is an act of service and leadership for the state and the profession! Join us in thanking Elena (and all of the AVTA board) for everything she does!

Elena Graves, BS, LVT! 🥳
AVTA President
Elena graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Equine Science in 2013 and earned an Associate of Science in Veterinary Technology from Jefferson State Community College in 2016. She has extensive clinical experience in general practice, emergency, and specialty medicine, and later transitioned into an operations role within a veterinary company as a data analyst.

Elena is deeply involved in the veterinary community, serving as an executive member of the Alabama Veterinary Technician Association since 2017 and as an LVT representative to the Madison County Veterinary Medical Association since 2021. Her professional interests include the Veterinary Nurse Initiative, mental health awareness within the veterinary profession, and continued growth in emergency and critical care and internal medicine.

Outside of veterinary medicine, Elena is a competitive equestrian, an avid reader, and enjoys traveling with her husband and son. She is also the proud owner of two “furbabies”: Grizzly, a Lab/Pointer mix, and Colonel, a Thoroughbred gelding.

P.S. see you at Annual Conference TOMORROW!!

10/23/2026

RECALL ALERT: Wedgewood Pharmacy LLC is voluntarily recalling nearly 4,000 compounded veterinary medications within expiry at the provider/customer level due to potential potency issues.

The affected products were shipped between February 18, 2026 and October 6, 2026 to veterinary practices, pharmacies, and other customers nationwide in the U.S. A complete list of affected products (including powders, pastes, oral suspensions, injectables, ophthalmic ointments and solutions, ear solutions and suspensions, topical sprays, and gels), lot numbers, and expiration dates are available at www.wedgewood.com/recall-lookup/. The products involved are intended for companion, equine, exotic, zoo, wildlife, and aquatic animals. They are not intended for use in food-producing animals. READ MORE: https://bit.ly/4BdaW34

10/22/2026

Join us in recognizing the critically important contributions of veterinary technicians at your practice or clinic during National Veterinary Technician Week! The AVMA offers a social media toolkit, complete with downloadable images to use on social media channels and your practice's website ➡ https://bit.ly/4xXBDGf

And from all of us at the AVMA, thank you veterinary technicians for all you do!

10/21/2026

Yeah! What they said! 🦎

Shout out to our exotic veterinary technicians keeping our reptilian friends happy and healthy on National Reptile Awareness Day!

Husbandry (housing, humidity, heat, light, diet) is essential to keeping reptiles healthy. Your exotic veterinary technician can help determine what works best for your little friend.

Bonus points for anyone sharing pictures of reptiles in costumes in the comments! 🦎

10/21/2026

HVSE LVTs are shining in the spotlight with tech features this week! Has your clinic highlighted a tech? Tag us! We will too!

🐾 Meet Annalisa, LVT! 🩺

Annalisa has been working in veterinary medicine since 2001 and became a Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT) in 2009. Throughout her career, she has gained extensive experience in both general practice and emergency medicine.

She joined HVSE in 2021, where she worked with our Surgery Department, managing anesthesia and serving on our on-call team for emergency surgeries. More recently, Annalisa transitioned to our Neurology Department, where she provides anesthesia for advanced imaging patients.

Annalisa has always had a passion for anesthesia and loves utilizing multimodal anesthesia protocols to help ensure patient comfort and safety during surgeries and procedures. ❤️

Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her two-legged and four-legged children, kayaking and just about anything involving water, and singing her heart out at karaoke! 🎤🛶

We’re so thankful to have Annalisa’s experience, dedication, and passion as part of the HVSE team! 🐶🐱