Dr. Beaufrère received his veterinary degree from the University of Lyon, France in 2006. Following veterinary school, he completed a small animal internship in a private practice in Belgium, an avian and exotic medicine internship at the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, Canada, and a combined PhD / Zoological Medicine Residency program at the School of Veterinary Medicine - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA and the Audubon Nature Institute, New Orleans, USA. After the completion of his PhD, Dr. Beaufrère came back to the Ontario Veterinary College – University of Guelph and was successively a staff veterinarian in the Avian and Exotic Service for 4 years and an assistant professor in the department of clinical studies for 4 years. Dr. Beaufrere then joined the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California – Davis as an Associate Professor in companion zoological medicine and surgery in 2021.