Born and raised in Southern California, Dr. Michelle Crosetto earned her B.S. in Biochemistry-Molecular Biology at the University of California Santa Barbara. She was a dolphin trainer for SeaWorld San Diego, Discovery Cove in Orlando, and Ocean World in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic for the first ten years of her career. In 2011, Dr. Crosetto graduated from Western University with her Degree in Veterinary Medicine. She continued her veterinary career with small animal and aquatic animal medicine in Las Vegas, NV for the next five years. After that, she worked with marine mammals from 2016-2020. In 2020, Dr. Crosetto returned to small animal medicine while continuing to foster her love for marine life helping at Theater of the Sea. Dr. Crosetto has been married for nineteen years and currently has two dogs and two cats. When she isn’t doing the heavy lifting of saving lives, she can be found at the gym literally doing heavy lifting.