Dr. Karen Overall is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behavior and is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist. She works at the faculty of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior in the psychiatry department at Penn Med as a research associate, where her research focuses on neurobehavioral genetics of canine cognitive, axiety and noise reactivity. She wrote the Manual of Small Animal Clinical Behavioral Medicine. She is also the editor-in-chief for Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research.