Speaker Bios

Etienne Côté is a Professor of Companion Animal Medicine at the Atlantic Veterinary College/Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Etienne is a veterinary cardiologist and his professional interests are cardiovascular diseases of different species, interpersonal communication between veterinarians and animal owners, and the intersection between human and animal heart diseases.

He teaches this in the classroom, laboratory, and especially in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital on final-year clinical rotations (experiential learning).

Etienne’s accomplishments include the development of the UPEI Residency in Veterinary Cardiology programme (one of 2 in Canada), contributing to training over 1000 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine students, authorship or coauthorship of 43 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and the development of the simulated client/actor programme for clinical communication skills training at AVC-UPEI.

He is perhaps best known as the editor of the Clinical Veterinary Advisor textbook and now co-editor of Ettinger’s Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He is a 2015 3M National Teaching Fellow.

Favorite quotation: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid." - Albert Einstein