Terri Slezak, MS, DVM was born in Connecticut, went to college in Ohio, Connecticut, and Illinois, and has lived in Ohio since 1992. Her family consists of her husband of ten years, an electrochemist for Energizer, and two sons, ages seven months and five years old. Slezak also has two small mixed-breed dogs. She has been a small animal veterinarian since 1990, and has special training in Toxicology.