Veterinarian Overview
Dr. Beka Heinz's love of animals was evident early on during her childhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "Even as a young child I was obsessed with animals," she recalls. "I would rehabilitate injured turtles, birds, and rabbits and adopted every puppy and kitten I could get my hands on. When my parents couldn't find me, they would walk to our neighbor's horse pasture to look for me."After attending high school in both New Jersey and Oklahoma, Dr. Heinz attended the University of Tulsa, where she received her bachelor's degree with honors in biology in 2004. Following college, veterinary school an obvious choice. "There was literally nothing else I wanted to do," she says. "I feel as if I was born to care for animals." She earned her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Oklahoma State College of Veterinary Medicine. While there, she was a Sitlington Scholar and received an Alice Levin Endowment award.Dr. Heinz joined River Trail Animal Hospital in 2014. She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology, and the American College of Zoological Medicine and her professional interests include surgery, animal welfare, internal medicine, and exotic animal medicine. Dr. Heinz also teaches Clinical Pathology I at Tulsa Community College's veterinary technician program. She participated in the National Institute of Health's competitive summer research program, and her research is still used and has been published in several papers.
