Etienne Cote

Dr. Etienne Côté is a board certified veterinary cardiologist and small animal internist at the Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown (Canada). He obtained his doctorate in veterinary medicine from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1993, interned at California Animal Hospital in Los Angeles in 1993-1994, and pursued his specialty training there in small animal internal medicine (1996-1998) and in cardiology (1998-1999). Dr. Côté teaches cardiology both in the classroom and in clinics to final-year veterinary students. His teaching effectiveness and leadership have been recognized with the Merial Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, the Pfizer Carl J. Norden Distinguished teacher Award, the Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership, and the Association of Atlantic Universities Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009. In 2015, he received Canada's highest recognition in postsecondary teaching when he was named a 3M National Teaching Fellow. He is author and editor-in-chief of three editions of the Clinical Veterinary Advisor textbook for small animal practice; coauthor of the only textbook on heart diseases of cats, Feline Cardiology; cocreator of Veterinary Board Games study tools; cocreator of the Veterinary Drug Index evidence-based medication information repository; creator of the Elsevier Collection of Veterinary Medicine Clinical Skills Videos - Small Animal Procedures and Techniques; coeditor of the 8th and 9th editions of the Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine with Stephen Ettinger and Edward Feldman, and author or coauthor of 44 scientific articles and 59 textbook chapters. His hobbies include travel, languages, running, hiking, snowshoeing, and Shotokan karate.