Elizabeth M. Hodgkins, D.V.M., Esq., has been a veterinarian since 1977. She currently owns and runs her cats-only veterinary practice, All About Cats Health and Wellness Center, in Yorba Linda, California. Dr. Hodgkins graduated from the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and went on to serve as the director of technical affairs at the largest proprietary pet-food manufacturer in the world. During this time, she developed the passion for veterinary nutrition that drove her later investigations into this subject, particularly the management of feline obesity and diabetes.

In 2001, Dr. Hodgkins was awarded a U.S. and international patent for a novel and highly successful approach to managing feline diabetes that has effected long-term remission in well over 80 percent of her diabetic patients. She is also a breeder of internationally award-winning Occicats and exhibits her purebred cats across the U.S. Please visit her Web site at www.yourcatbook.com.