Primary Job Title Professor of Clinical Animal Behavior Primary Organization 
University of California, Davis
Location Sacramento, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Female
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Dr. Melissa Bain is board-certified in veterinary behavior, and is the Chief of Service of the Clinical Animal Behavior Service. She received her DVM from the University of Illinois in 1994. She then worked in a small animal exclusive veterinary practice in the Chicago suburbs for 1 1/2 years, as well as a mixed animal veterinary practice in
rural Wisconsin for 2 1/2 years. Dr. Bain then entered the Clinical Veterinary Behavior Residency Program at UC Davis in 1998, and became board-certified in 2001. In 2007, she completed a Master’s degree in advanced clinical research from the UC Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Bain became board certified by the American College of Animal Welfare in 2014. She is a past president of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists and the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior. Her responsibilities include student and resident education, clinical case management, and research. Her areas of research focus have been clinical domestic animal behavior problems and human-animal bond issues, including research on dog-parks and the effects of different training methods on the behavior of dogs.
