Veterinary Genetics with Dr Angela Hughes

Dr. Angela Hughes DVM PhD serves as Scientific Communications Veterinarian and Veterinary Geneticist at Royal Canin where she is focused on teaching people how to create better health through nutrition for dogs and cats. She is a trained veterinary geneticist who pioneered the concept of genetically aligning potential breeding dogs to evaluate genetic diversity and launched this in a first-of-its-kind test called Optimal Selection™. Dr. Hughes completed her veterinary degree, veterinary genetics residency, PhD in genetics, and held an associate clinical professor position at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Hughes is also completing a Master’s degree in Communications through the University of Florida. She has been published in multiple academic publications including the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, PLOS Genetics, and PLOS One and has contributed chapters for publication in Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice: Pediatrics and several editions of Large Animal Internal Medicine.