Dr. Ashley Hartley completed her veterinary (DVM) and doctoral (PhD) training at the University of Georgia. Her dissertation specifically characterized genetically modified Trypanosoma cruzi parasite lines and canine immune phenotypes in uninfected and T. cruzi-infected dogs. Dr. Hartley continued her clinical training with a small animal medicine and surgery internship at the University of Tennessee followed by a small animal internal medicine residency at North Carolina State University. She served as a staff clinician in small animal internal medicine at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals at the Royal Veterinary College in London, UK before returning to the University of Tennessee's College of Veterinary Medicine as an assistant professor. Dr. Hartley's clinical interests encompass all aspects of small animal medicine, with particular research focuses in infectious diseases, immunology, and hepatobiliary diseases.