Terry Ryan Kane

Dr. Terry Ryan Kane earned a Master of Science degree in Ecology from the University of Illinois, Chicago and took beekeeping while attending veterinary school at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She founded Michigan’s first feline-only hospital in 1981. After decades of practice, she pivoted to policy having received a Congressional Science and Technology Policy Fellowship to serve in the U.S. Senate. There she worked on the Farm Bill, emerging diseases, antibiotic resistance, and the FDA-VFD ruling. When she returned home to Michigan, she started up her beehives again and founded A2 Bee Vet, a practice devoted to honey bee medicine. She has lectured on Honey Bee & Pollinator Biology and Ecology and taught Bee Labs to veterinarians. She has served on two AVMA committees, CDEI and CEI. She is currently on the Executive Board of The Honey Bee Veterinary Consortium, an organization of honey bee veterinarians and veterinary students. She is co-editor of a new book, Honey Bee Medicine for Veterinary Practitioners (Wiley Press, 2021). She is an instrument rated private pilot and credits the bees for her love of flying.