Dr. Elizabeth (Liddy) Alvarez is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Primary Care Service where she has been teaching students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for the past 17 years. She is passionate about teaching the next generation of veterinarians to practice Primary Care through utilizing Spectrum of Care strategies and serves as Chair of both the AAVMC Primary Care Veterinary Educators (PCVE) community as well as the AAVMC Spectrum of Care Initiative (SOCI) Educator Working Group.
Liddy has been a part of building the UW-Madison outreach program, WisCARES (Wisconsin Companion Animal Resources, Education, and Social Services) since its inception in 2014. WisCARES is a One Health program, a collaboration with the UW Schools of Social Work and Pharmacy established to help pet owners experiencing homelessness and housing instability increase access to animal and human healthcare and social services. She has served as Medical Director and is currently the Curriculum Director for WisCARES, where she focuses on the student experience, research, and obtaining grant funding for the program. In 2022 Liddy was awarded the UW-SVM inaugural Ruth M. Skaar Chair in Veterinary Medicine, a five-year endowed award focused on innovative teaching and education research and was named the prestigious AAVMC National Distinguished Veterinary Teacher award in 2023. Because of her work with interprofessional healthcare work through WisCARES, Dr. Alvarez was named the 2023 Distinguished Fellow in the National Academies of Practice (NAP).
WisCARES: https://wiscares.wisc.edu/
UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine: https://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/people/elizabeth-alvarez/