Secretary - Barbie Papajeski, MS, LVT, RLATG,

VTS (Clinical Pathology)

Barbie earned her BSA in veterinary technology / pre-veterinary medicine from Murray State University in 1991.  She became employed at Murray State University's Breathitt Veterinary Center in Hopkinsville, KY shortly before graduation and has been employed by the univeristy ever since.  She earned her Master's of Science in Agriculture in 2000.  Barbie currently teaches clinical pathology, small animal science, and laboratory animal courses at MSU and is a CE instructor for VSPN. Prior to full time teaching, she worked in the clinical pathology department of Breathitt Veterinary Center and managed their small rodent colony. She served on the organizing committee of AVCPT and currently serves as secretary. She coordinates and co-chairs CE meetings as secretary of KVTA, and has been invited to speak at national conferences.  She resides in Western Kentucky, near Land Between the Lakes, where she loves to hike with her two sons and husband.  She shares her home with two dogs, four cats, and an assortment of rabbits, chickens, ducks, and other farm birds.