Jorge Luis Colón

Biography

Dr. Jorge L. Colón obtained his BS (CALS ’92) and DVM (’95) degrees from Cornell University and his MBA degree with a Finance Certificate (’15) from Colorado State University’s College of Business. He spent twenty five years of clinical practice in Lexington, Kentucky as an equine ambulatory practitioner, also working as a private business consultant and educator since 2014. He joined the Cornell Center for Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship in January 2020 as a Professor of Practice in Financial and Organizational Management at the College of Veterinary Medicine, and is tasked with the development and implementation of veterinary business educational program into the veterinary curriculum, with the creation of outreach veterinary business executive education, and with the establishment of networking channels with faculty under the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business umbrella as well as key CVM alumni and CVBE partners. Dr. Colón is the author of “Essential Business Concepts for Veterinary Professionals” and holds an Affiliated Faculty position at Cornell's Dyson School for Applied Economics and Management.

Academic Degrees

• MBA College of Business, Colorado State University, 2015
• DVM College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, 1995
• BS College of Agricultural & Life Sciences, Cornell University, 1992