Dr. Soraya Juarbe-Diaz: Dr. Juarbe-Diaz received her B.S and DVM degrees from Cornell University. After seven years in private practice she returned to her alma mater and completed a behavioral medicine residence, becoming board certified in 1997. Certification by the Animal Behavior Society as a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist was conferred in 1999.

She ran the Clinical Behavior clinic at two vet schools, first at the University of Florida and then at the University of Tennessee, while maintaining a behavior referral practice in Florida, a service she has provided since the fall of 1997.

Dr. Juarbe-Diaz serves on various committees of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists and is the Assistant Editor of the Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research. She currently is a post-doctoral researcher with the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry. Her interests include behavioral disorders in domestic species and animal cognition in particular. Her house is a home thanks to a rescue dog, cat and horse.