Dr. Cynthia Webster is a Professor and Associate Chair of Research at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. A native of western Massachusetts, she is a board-certified small animal medicine internist with extensive expertise in canine and feline liver disease.
Dr. Webster earned her DVM from Cornell University and completed post-graduate work in liver disease at Tufts University School of Medicine. She leads the veterinary Liver Study Group, an umbrella organization of the Comparative Gastroenterology Society. Her research focuses on how the liver survives toxic insults, particularly during impaired bile flow, as well as copper-associated and immune-mediated chronic hepatitis in dogs.
Her passion for comparative medicine drives her unique dual role: teaching gastrointestinal and liver medicine to veterinary students at Cummings School while also lecturing graduate students at Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Boston. This bridge between veterinary and human medicine reflects her commitment to advancing health across species, making her an invaluable member of our review committee.