Dr. Allison Inga is everything right now

If you met Allison Inga as a child, you would have known instantly that she was destined for the medical field. Allison would often ‘run away’ to the local clinic just a block down the road, where she could observe what doctors were doing until her parents came to pick her up.

When their pets needed to visit the vet, she was so keen to see all that was going on the vet would provide a stool for her. Yet if you’d asked Allison as a child what she wanted to be, it wouldn’t have been a dermatologist. Allison was in love with the microscope from a young age, and was more confident than many highschoolers that “Pathologist” was the right path for her.

She did follow her lifelong passion and go to vet school in 2010, but discovered dermatology along the way and realized this was what she wanted to do. Although she loves dermatology in all its forms, she finds the diagnosis and management of auto-immune and immune-mediated diseases to be both particularly challenging and especially rewarding.

One of the most terrifying decisions Allison ever made in her life was to move to a different country to attend vet school. She lived in New York City all her life but moved to attend St. George’s University in the West Indies. 

Moving to a new country was terrifying, but it was also the biggest adventure in her life. Seeing Grenada was one of the best decisions in her life, helping her to fall in love with the people, the island, and even helping her find her husband and one of her best friends.

Allison believes everyone should try doing something that terrifies them at least once in their life, because once you have done something that has been holding you back, you realize you can do anything. She experienced this herself not only from moving to a different country, but also from trying skydiving—even though she’s not a big fan of heights.

One of the ways Allison unwinds after a long day at work is to make the most out of her drive home. She has a long drive, and uses that time to call friends, family and her husband to unwind and chat (hands free, of course.) By the time she gets home from that drive, her mind is clear, and she is able to spend time with her family and simply enjoy their presence.

Allison had a friend who used to say, “Do good things.” Although that friend has passed on, those words have stuck with her. She has made it her mission in life to do good things and be a benefit to the world around her.

All of these things have come together to make Allison who she is—a dynamic person with an amazing heart and an incredible ability to treat patients who need help with their skin. She is a wonderful addition to the veterinary community, and continues to help every single day.