Meet Our Team

Amy Elbe, CVT, LAT - Clinical research technician

Amy Elbe is the technician for all non-oncology clinical studies. Amy graduated from Madison College's laboratory animal science program in 1995 and the veterinary technician program in 1996. She spent the first 20 years of her career working in feline medicine in both private practice and shelter medicine. She taught at Madison college for 3 semesters in the veterinary technician program. She started working at UW Veterinary Care in 2017 and worked for 4 years as a neurology technician before moving to clinical studies in 2021. Amy's background in medical research combined with her experience working in various veterinary settings has given her opportunity to see a vast number of patients and clients with different conditions. Amy is very excited to be working with all the doctors in the hospital on a variety of clinical studies because she loves to learn new things and meet new people and their pets. When she is not at work, Amy has chickens and a rabbit plus a large garden. She enjoys all outdoor activities and spending time with friends and family.

Amy Lynn Munes - Clinical Core Research Specialist

Amy Lynn Munes is our clinical studies core research specialist. She received her bachelors with a double major in Wildlife Ecology and Biology at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point in 2011. She then spent a year working as a full-time volunteer with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Hawaii, and three years as a crew leader at Oregon State University monitoring Caspian tern and double-crested cormorant colonies. Amy Lynn then worked a year and a half as a wildlife rehabilitation technician rescuing and nursing critically endangered seabirds back to health while also caring for domestic dogs and cats as an animal care technician at the Kauai Humane Society. She then worked for three years monitoring northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis) for the US Forest Service in Oregon before getting her Master’s degree in Biology from Northern Michigan University (NMU) in 2023. While at NMU she studied how telomeres in the nucleated blood cells of common loons (Gavia immer) deteriorated over time and how telomere lengths were associated with sibling status (single chick or larger/smaller sibling), and blood methylmercury levels in wild and experimental lab samples. Amy Lynn then spent three years as a research assistant in the Department of Wildlife Ecology here at UW Madison, studying how diet items detected in the intestines of barred owls (Strix varia), using DNA metabarcoding techniques, were associated with rodenticides detected in the liver and proximity to cannabis grow sites in Northern California. She is excited to help develop methods and expedite research in Veterinary Medicine while working with domestic animals that are less afraid of people than the wild animals she is accustomed to. Amy Lynn has a dog, fish, snails, shrimp, and lots of plants. She loves all creatures great and small and is passionate about better understanding how to improve the wellbeing of both wild and domestic animals.

Specialty Intern

Dani LaBonte, Oncology Clinical Trials