About Amy Learn, DVM

Dr. Learn grew up outside Philadelphia, PA and spent summers visiting family at the Jersey Shore where she still loves to visit. She attended undergrad in Bethlehem PA receiving a BS in Biology and worked at a wildlife conservation park in Texas before being accepted to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. After graduation, she completed an internship at Red Bank Veterinary Hospital in NJ and then she went into general practice until 2017 at which time, she started a Residency in Clinal Behavioral Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Lisa Radosta in South Florida and Dr. Amy Pike in Northern Virginia. She completed her residency training and is currently the Chief of Clinical Behavioral Medicine at the Animal Behavior Wellness Center in Richmond VA where she counsels clients from Richmond, Charlottesville, Hampton Roads, Virginia Beach and North Carolina. She has have contributed to veterinary textbook chapters, journal articles, blogs and received the RK Anderson Resident achievement award.

About Amy Pike, DVM, DACVB, IAABC-CABC

Dr. Pike graduated from Colorado State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 2003.  After graduation, she was commissioned as a Captain into the Army Veterinary Corps and was stationed at Fort Huachuca Arizona. It was taking care of the Military Working Dogs returning from deployments that spurred her interests in clinical behavior medicine. In 2011, Dr. Pike started a Residency program with Dr. Debra Horwitz, DACVB and became board certified in 2015.

Dr. Pike is owner of the Animal Behavior Wellness Center with locations in Fairfax, and Richmond, VA. She currently mentors two clinical behavior residents, and employs four veterinary nurses (one VTS-behavior), and four trainers. Dr. Pike is a member of the Fear Free Advisory Committee, is a certified International Association of Animal Behavior Consultant, and is a clinical instructor for E-training for Dogs (an online education forum for trainers). Dr Pike was recently named one of the “Top Veterinarians of Northern Virginia” by NoVa Magazine for the fourth year in a row.

In addition to publishing two original research papers, Dr. Pike has written numerous scholarly articles, and book chapters for Veterinary Clinics of North America, Small Animal Dermatology, The Feline Patient, The Five Minute Veterinary Consult (Behavior), The Five Minute Veterinary Consult (Small Animal Clinical Medicine), Decoding Your Cat, and Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare.

In her spare time, she enjoys reading, gardening, and hanging out with her kids, Alexa, age 11, and Grayson, age 6, and her active duty Army spouse of 18 years, Tom. She has a 13-year old Scottish Terrier, named Scott Lynn, a 3-year old Giant Schnauzer, named Ike, a 1-year old mini schnauzer named Scooby, a 5-year old Devon Rex cat, named Dobby, and a 28-year old African Ring Neck Parakeet who she hand reared when she was a teenager.