Meet Our Team

Dr. Autumn Harris is a board-certified veterinary internist and researcher within the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine’s Small Animal Hospital. She received her veterinary medical degree from Mississippi State University in 2012 and completed a one-year rotating internship at Kansas State University. She moved to the University of Florida for her internal medicine residency and a two-year post-doctoral nephrology fellowship focusing on acid-base regulation in kidney disease. She then stayed on for another six years as an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine. Dr. Harris is currently completing a residency at NC State through the American College of Veterinary Nephrology-Urology. She treats many species of animals with kidney and urinary tract diseases and is especially passionate about improving the lives of dogs and cats with chronic kidney disease.  Dr. Harris has received the Postdoctoral Excellence in Renal Research Award from the American Physiological Society and the C.E. Cornelius Young Investigator Award from the University of Florida for her contributions to renal physiology and CKD in dogs and cats.

Rebeca Castro has managed Dr. Harris’s laboratory for over 6 years. Together they have studied metabolic acidosis in mice, investigated sex-steroid specific differences in mouse kidneys, along with a range of clinical studies in client owned dogs and cats. She loves working with animals and says it is her “personal mission to see that every animal is treated with kindness, understanding, and respect.” Rebeca graduated from the University of Florida with her Bachelors in Biological Sciences and has been working a lab manager since 2018.