MMI Leadership
Cailin R. Heinze, VMD, MS, Diplomate ACVIM (Nutrition)
Executive Director and Chief Academic Officer
Dr. Heinze is the Executive Director and Chief Academic Officer for MMI. She received her VMD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. After veterinary school, she worked in private small animal/exotics practice for a few years on the east coast before moving to California to pursue a residency in clinical nutrition at UC Davis.
Dr. Heinze completed her residency and then earned a Master’s degree in Nutritional Biology at UC Davis prior to joining the faculty of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.
Dr. Heinze is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in the Nutrition subspecialty. She taught biochemistry and clinical nutrition and ran the Clinical Nutrition Service at Tufts until June 2019. She currently holds the title of Adjunct Associate Professor at the Cummings School and has extensive experience teaching at more than a dozen veterinary schools.
Her professional and research interests include nutritional management of renal disease, long chain fatty acids, and cancer nutrition. In her leisure time, Dr. Heinze enjoys training and competing in obedience and rally as well as volunteering as a pet therapy team with her Labrador, Lucy. She also enjoys DIY projects, dressage training, and gardening.
Elizabeth (Liz) Dorcey, MA
Administrative Coordinator
Liz Dorcey received the degree of Master of Arts in Higher and Adult Education Administration from the University of Maryland and the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the College of Wooster, majoring in English and minoring in German.
Her professional experience has largely been with the American Podiatric Medical Association, having served as Assistant and Associate Director of the Council on Podiatric Medical Education, where she managed and coordinated professional approval activities related to podiatric postgraduate residency programs and continuing education sponsors in the United States and served as a liaison between the accrediting body and program sponsors. Following this experience, she served as Web Editor and Special Projects Assistant at APMA, editing and publishing all webpages, copy editing the bimonthly member magazine, and managing production of pre-meeting publicity and the program book/app for the Association’s annual scientific meeting.
Earlier positions Liz has held were also in the educational realm, including as a Graduate Assistant at the University of Maryland, an Instructional Development Specialist at the NEOMED medical school, a Teaching Assistant in Austria through the Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission), and an Administrative Intern at the College of Wooster.
In her free time, Liz enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, growing houseplants, cooking, volunteering, and outdoor activities. She also enjoys playing with her sons’ dogs, Vulfgar (Wolfy), a German Shepherd, and Ryan, a Dutch Shepherd-Plott Hound mix.
