Terri Bright, Ph. D., BCBA-D, CAAB

Director of Behavior Services, MSPCA-Angell

Dr. Terri Bright is the director of the behavior department at MSPCA-Angell, where she has worked since 2007, when she started the Behavior Program there by providing classes for pet dogs and writing behavior plans for Shelter dogs. The program was so successful she was asked to start a Clinical Behavior program at Angell Animal Medical Center in 2013.

She sees approximately 400 patients a year (dogs/cats) in her clinical practice there, where she uses behavior assessment, analysis, and modification of both animal and human behavior to achieve behavior change.

Dr. Bright got her Master’s and Ph. D. in Applied Behavior Analysis at Simmons College and teaches Learning and Behavior at Northeastern University; she is also a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Animals and Public Policy at the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, and is the founder and Editor of the open-access publication, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis in Animal Training.

She is the past president of the Applied Animal Behavior Special Interest Group for Applied Behavior Analysis International, and she has twice been awarded the Marion Breland Bailey Award for research.