Coreen Haggerty has been appointed Director of Alumni Relations for Penn Veterinary Medicine. Prior to her appointment, Coreen had served as the special events coordinator for Penn Vet since July 2005, having organized our many events such as naming the Hill Pavilion to the successful 106th Penn Annual Conference, which invited back 1,200 alumni and friends.

 

Before her time at Penn, Coreen directed the only nationally accredited continuing medical education program for physicians in the state of Delaware where she was responsible for facilitating almost 1,000 hours of education for the state medical society. There she also managed several volunteer committees related to environmental and public health, aging, school health and education and served on several state and national initiatives including the Healthy Delaware 2010 Steering & Development Committees, Attorney General’s Task Force on Animal Cruelty and Violence and Governor’s Council on Cancer Incidence and Mortality. Before this, Coreen marketed long-term care contracts in the admissions department of the Kendal retirement communities.

 

Coreen has served on the boards of Delaware’s animal shelters and advocacy groups, but her combined affinity for medicine and animal care blossomed through her work in client support at a Delaware veterinary emergency center. She spends much of her free time fostering and transporting rescued American Eskimo dogs for a national breed rescue group. She has two Eskies of her own.

Coreen graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Communication from West Chester University in Pennsylvania, and completed undergraduate coursework at the University of Delaware.

 

Coreen can be reached at 215-898-1481 and haggertc@vet.upenn.edu.