Dr. Annie Varghese, Veterinary Surgeon, Veterinary dispensary, Sreekaryam, Thiruvananthapuram with a 12 years dedicated service in various institutions of Animal Husbandry Department. Being a graduate of Veterinary College, Mannuthy (1992) and a postgraduate of the Tamil Nadu Veterinary, Animal Sciences University, Chennai in Veterinary Surgery (1994) she had always been a favored recipient of many distinctions and awards all throughout her student life. She has bagged the Statistics Medal (1993), K.J. Hospital Gold Medal (1994) and the prestigious Puratchi Thalaivi Dr.J Jayalalitha Endowment Prize (1994) from the Tamil Nadu Veterinary & Animal Sciences University proving her scholarly excellence beyond academic culture and borders.

A life member of the Indian Society for Veterinary Surgery and the author of around 19 surgical papers presented in various scientific platforms, Dr. Annie has been honored with the best paper Award and Gold medal in the Avian, Zoo and Wild life session in the 32nd Annual Congress of Indian Soceity of Veterinary Surgery (Namakkal). She is a skillful and dedicated surgeon significantly contributing to and leading the surgery teams of Trivandrum zoo and the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation as the master trainer for ABC. Dr. Annie also has acquired a thorough know-how on the companion animal behavior and the underlying chemistry of the pet-client-vet trilogy which makes her a popular animal welfare activist voicing her ideals and ideas in several of her technical publications and organizations like People for Animal of Trivandrum and Animal Rescue, Kerala.