Shirley Shelton earned a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Mississippi State University in 1988. After graduation, she practiced at Grady Veterinary Hospital in Cincinnati before going on to a residency in veterinary neurology at the University of Florida. She completed her board certification with the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in the field of veterinary neurology in 1994.
After several years of practicing veterinary neurology in Missouri and Michigan she decided to return to school for graduate studies in neurological disease mechanisms.
In 2003 she earned a PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She then returned to Cincinnati to continue her research in neurology. Currently she researches hearing disorders in dogs at the Facility for Education and Testing of Canine Hearing and Laboratory for Animal Bioacoustics (FETCH~LAB) at the University of Cincinnati in addition to seeing neurological patients at the CARE Center.
Currently she is the proud owner of two Siamese cats and a whippet (who loves to run on the treadmill!).
