Dr. Lisa Ward

About

Dr. Ward is a practicing veterinarian with 12 years of clinical experience who started reviewing pet food ingredients for PetVerdict after her third patient of the day came in with diet-related health issues that an honest product label would have prevented. She fact-checks every nutrition claim on the site and has a particular vendetta against the word 'holistic' on pet food packaging, which she considers a marketing term that means precisely nothing. Her ingredient analysis goes beyond the guaranteed analysis panel — she evaluates bioavailability, amino acid profiles, and whether the vitamin premix is actually adequate for the species they're selling it to. She once got into a public argument with a major pet food brand's head of marketing at a veterinary conference, and she won.

12 years of experience in pet care products.