Shauna Cantwell, DVM -  Instructor, Tui Na: Chinese Meridian Massage

       Dr. Shauna Cantwell graduated from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Canada in 1989. She practiced in mixed animal, then small animal and emergency medicine until 1995. Returning to university after practice, she specialized in Anesthesiology and pain management and became board certified in 2000. She is currently on faculty at the University of Florida veterinary college where she teaches anesthesiology. She also has a complementary and alternative medicine practice for horses and small animals called Medicine Wheel Veterinary Services in Newberry , Florida.

       As well as teaching Tui Na for Tallgrass, Shauna teaches equine acupuncture and Tui Na at the Chi Institute of TCVM in Florida . Additionally, she lectures on pain management and teaches chiropractic techniques at the Healing Oasis School of veterinary spinal manipulative therapy in Wisconsin .

       Dr. Cantwell has been studying Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine since 2001, when she investigated acupuncture as a pain management modality. She recently studied veterinary chiropractic and incorporates this into her private practice. Her research at the university is in the field of the benefit of acupuncture and the incorporation into conventional medicine. She is also doing clinical research in the area of veterinary chiropractic. She has written articles on pain management including Equine Analgesia, a chapter in Equine Surgery veterinary textbook, and Ancillary and Alternative Pain Management for Small Animals in the BSAVA textbook of veterinary anesthesiology. Her career goal in addition to improving the well-being of individual animals is to demonstrate that alternative medicines can be integrated with conventional medicine to create a new and better veterinary medicine.