Alum a Finalist for ‘Top Vet’

The College of Veterinary Medicine regularly turns out top-notch graduates, but soon one of its alumni could become “America’s Top Vet.”

Page Wages, a 2005 graduate, is on the staff at Raleigh’s CareFirst Animal Hospital, where she first started as a technician while still a student at NC State.

In addition to her duties at CareFirst, where she is one of five members of the practice, Wages actively volunteers with Second Chance Spay Day, a monthly event when as many as 75 pets are spayed and neutered.

Every summer for the last decade, Wages has joined NC State adjunct professor Sam Galphin in taking a group of vet students on a two-week Christian Veterinary Mission to such places as Alaska and the Navajo Nation and Cherokee Nation in the Southwest. While there, they provide preventive veterinary services  for sheep, cattle, horses and small animals.

Wages is one of 20 finalists chosen from more than 700 nominations for the second-annual award, which is given by the America Veterinary Medical Foundation to identify and celebrate extraordinary professionals in all areas of veterinary medicine.

The winner will be chosen through online voting between July 26 and Aug. 30. Voters can cast one ballot per day through the duration of the contest.