She is board certified in the specialty of cardiology by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the Michael E. DeBakey Institute for Comparative Cardiovascular Science and Biomedical Devices. Dr. Saunders has numerous publications in the areas of congenital heart disease, interventional cardiology, and heart failure management. She serves as an editor for the Journal of Veterinary Cardiology. In addition to being named a Texas A&M University Center for Teaching Excellence Montague Scholar in 2009, she has been awarded the Richard H. Davis Teaching award for demonstrating outstanding ability as a teacher.