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VETERINARIAN
Summary

Focused Veterinarian enthusiastically seeking role in which twenty years of exemplary talent in animal surgery and diagnosing conditions can be leveraged to add invaluable expertise to the entire veterinary team. Committed to providing expert animal diagnoses and treatments. Well-versed in promoting health awareness by offering pet owners useful advice and educational tools to better care for pets, as well as ability to empathetically care for pet owners with more critical animals and develop a plan that works for them, their pet, and the hospital. At this point in my career I am also open to taking on more of a leadership role in the hospital. I look forward to finding a mutual fit.

Skills
  • Highly skilled diagnostician
  • Proficient at routine surgery as well as more advanced less common soft tissue surgical procedures. A true love of surgery
  • Passionate about client education and constant teaching for my support staff
  • Able to cultivate close relationships and build a loyal clientele while still promoting my fellow veterinarians and referral vets
  • Thrive in fast paced clinic with critical patients and unplanned arrivals and procedures while still maintaining a calm and fun work environment for my support staff
  • Have enjoyed being a consistent top producer by managing a heavy caseload through organization and delegation
Experience
Veterinarian | 01/2006 to 01/2021Knowles Snapper Creek 24h Animal Clinic - Kendall, Florida
  • Triaged patients in clinic with only 80% of caseload emergent patients and sick visits and organized treatment plans to efficiently accomplish stabilization of patients, education of owners and delegation to support staff.
  • Excell as diagnostician in fast paced ER
  • Demonstrated leadership by making improvements to the clinic by training many new graduates and constant teaching and discussing medical topics with support staff.
  • Cultivated surgical expertise in scheduled and emergency surgeries for various animals. Able to perform advanced soft tissue surgeries such as urethrostomy (both canine and feline), removal and reconstruction of oversized tumors, surgical emergencies included with acute abdomen, reconstruction of large acute and chronic wounds, cherry eye, reconstruction of eyelids, nares, juvenile vulva and more.
  • Consistently top producer each year working 14days a month
  • Provided seminars for TSA, MDPD, Aviation working dogs on first aid in the field as well and behavior of the working canine.
  • Provided seminars for staff in behavior and treatment of the working dog
  • Provided seminars for staff on restraint techniques
ER Veterinarian | 06/2004 to 12/2005Monterey Peninsula Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Center - Monterey, CA
  • Worked with an Emergency and Critical Care Specialist and an Internal medicine specialist as my co-workers nights and 72 hour weekend shifts. Involved heavy mentoring by both of these veterinarians with rounds twice daily and weekly morbidity mortality rounds.
  • As the only emergency clinic in an 80 mile radius it was a busy ER with close interaction with referral veterinarians.
  • Able to watch and aid in a clinic build and move to large facility with additions of more specialists
  • Involved overnight care of exotic animal clinic patients and mentorship as I treated their patients when presented during emergency hours with phone input from the exotic animal specialists.
Veterinarian | 02/2001 to 06/2004Bonita 24 hour Animal Hospital - Bonita, CA
  • Worked 50% day shift, 50% night shift and was able to cultivate large clientele
  • Heavy mentorship in surgery. Run by three owners who developed surgical mentoring program divided between them. I quickly developed large range of soft tissue surgery skills. More importantly I was able to learn there are many ways to practice medicine well.
  • Was being prepped for partnership and also mentored in business aspect of running a 24hour clinic.
  • Consistently DVM with highest client transaction rate
  • Experienced working both day and night clinic and learned importance of 24hour clinic working as one unit and the challenges of such
ER Veterinarian | 02/2000 to 02/2001Tidewater 24 hour Animal Hospital - Virginia Beach, VA
  • Heavy caseload at fast paced emergency clinic nights and weekends
  • Worked as regular relief vet while completing internship and then worked full time once completed
  • Great mentorship for me as was owned by internal medicine specialist
  • Learned triage, multitasking, running staff alone and heavy record keeping
  • Close interaction with referral veterinarians in area
Education and Training
Fast Saves Lives - - Training Course | Certification Global FAST Ultrasound Training, 06/2018
  • AFAST-Abdominal ultrasonography for emergency conditions as well as more detailed general abdominal ultrasound training
  • TFAST-Cardiac and mediastinal ultrasonography for emergent disease
  • Vet BLUE-Ultrasound of lung parenchyma for acute and serial analysis of disease
Greenbrier Specialty And Emergency Pet Hospital - - Chesapeake, VA | Private Practice InternshipOncology And Internal Medicine , 06/2001
  • Location now Blue Pearl Hospital
  • Oncology provided amazing opportunity to see importance of vet to client relationship and how close that attachment can be
  • Was able to see interaction between specialists at this large hospital and how they worked together even as board certified doctors.
  • Oncology and Internal Medicine gave me a strong foundation as a diagnostician as my mentor did require me to read history, examine pet and develop my rule outs and treatment plan with every case we saw
Ross University Of Veterinary Medicine - - St. Kitts | Doctor of Veterinary MedicineVeterinary Medicine , 01/2000
University Of Illinois At Chicago - - Chicago,IL | | Bachelor of ScienceBiology, With Minor in Chemistry , 06/1995
  • Howard Hughes Biology Honors Scholarship Recipient
  • Howard Hughes Honors Biology Member

Scholarship recipients were enrolled in weekly class with individual mentor. We met and discussed, debated and explored various topics in biology and were a great support system for each other.

  • Co-Founded a student run credited class "The Biology Colloquium"

This was a class for first year students entering with biology major. We meet weekly with presentations in classroom set up by founders to introduce students to all of possible career paths available for bio majors. We arranged guest speakers from Chicagoans and elsewhere. I personally was responsible for four options monthly off campus trip to immerge us with experts in areas such as hospitals, morgue, museum, research labs, and more. Also organized large yearly retreat for research projects in Lake Itasca Minnesota with professors at University of Minnesota.

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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Knowles Snapper Creek 24h Animal Clinic
  • Monterey Peninsula Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Center
  • Bonita 24 hour Animal Hospital
  • Tidewater 24 hour Animal Hospital

School Attended

  • Fast Saves Lives
  • Greenbrier Specialty And Emergency Pet Hospital
  • Ross University Of Veterinary Medicine
  • University Of Illinois At Chicago

Job Titles Held:

  • Veterinarian
  • ER Veterinarian

Degrees

  • Fast Saves Lives - Training Course | Certification
    Greenbrier Specialty And Emergency Pet Hospital - Chesapeake, VA | Private Practice Internship
    Ross University Of Veterinary Medicine - St. Kitts | Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
    University Of Illinois At Chicago - Chicago , IL | Bachelor of Science

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