Practitioner Updates

Pictured above from left to right: Dr. Heidi Phillips, Dr. John Coyne, and Dr. Kimberly Selting On October 11, in a touching investiture ceremony that highlighted family ties, two faculty members became the inaugural Dr….
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Dr. Chen is an instructor in the small animal surgery service. Tell us about your background. Unlike the people who were passionate about veterinary medicine from an early age, I grew up in the East…
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Some of our clients have pets. Others have pet projects. This second category is often the fate of the family that includes a dog with canine atopic dermatitis (CAD). The more we learn about allergic…
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Dr. Huff is an instructor in the small animal emergency service. Tell us about your background. I grew up on a farm and started shadowing our local veterinarian from a young age. I then worked…
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It’s that time of year when sheep and goats tend to form bladder stones and become obstructed. The second common time of year is in the winter when the waterers freeze. Any sick male castrated…
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Dr. Sosa-Higareda is an assistant professor in the zoological medicine service. Tell us about your background. I was born and raised in Mexico City. I obtained my veterinary degree from the National Autonomous University of…
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There are many types of extraneural diseases that might also affect the nervous system in some way: This is obviously a wide range of diseases: an entire book can be written on this topic! For…
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Canine soft tissue sarcomas are a locally invasive subcutaneous neoplasm in dogs. We have observed from many of our referred soft tissue sarcoma cases, the diagnosis is most commonly determined from histopathology following marginal tumor…
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Dr. Bruner is a clinical assistant professor in the dermatology and otology service. Tell us about your background. I was one of those kids who always wanted to become a veterinarian and then actually became…
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Dr. Carl Toborowsky, a clinical assistant professor in the cardiology service, has degrees in East Asian studies, ecology, evolution, and systematics, and biological anthropology in addition to his veterinary degree from the University of Pennsylvania….
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