Bianca Acosta, DVM, is an associate veterinarian with Banfield Pet Hospital, the leading provider of preventive veterinary care in the United States with more than 1,000 hospitals in neighborhoods across the country and Puerto Rico. Her home hospital is in Corona, in Southern California, and she also helps as needed at hospitals in Upland, Fontana, San Bernardino and Eastvale.

She earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) at St. George’s University in Grenada, West Indies, and completed her fourth year clinicals at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Azusa Pacific University in Southern California.

Dr. Acosta has quite a span of experience volunteering with animals, starting at age 16 at a local equestrian therapy center and later including volunteering at an animal hospital, then a zoo. While in school she completed externships at the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga and at Loma Linda Animal Hospital in San Bernardino, Calif. She is a youth leader at her church, and in the past has been director of the hand bell choir and a teacher of both piano and flute.