Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine thanks the Massachusetts Thoroughbred Breeder’s Association for this opportunity to update reader’s of recent changes and additions to our hospital for large animals.
Dr.
Jose Garcia-Lopez, VMD, Dip ACVS joins
us as our newest faculty member in the subsection of Large Animal Surgery.
Dr. Garcia, a graduate veterinarian of the University of Pennsylvania, is
a board certified large animal surgeon with specialty expertise in the
management of unsoundness in horses. Dr.
Garcia completed an internship at the University of Pennsylvania before first
joining Tufts in 1997 to undertake a three year surgical residency.
On completion of the residency he returned to Penn to pursue clinical
responsibilities at that School’s Section of Sports Medicine and Imaging,.
Dr. Garcia re-joined us as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in October
2002 and now provides our clinical surgery service for our patients along with
Dr. Patricia Provost, Dip ACVS, and Dr. Carl Kirker-Head, Dip ACVS.
Jose is married to Dr. Chope, one of our coworkers (see below), and has
two young children whose names are José María
and Katerina Amelia.
Dr.
Kate Chope, DVM, now provides a full-time ultrasound specialty service at the Hospital
for Large Animals, covering all of the major body systems.
Dr. Chope is also a 1996 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
She then spent a couple of years in mixed animal practice before
completing a two year Fellowship in large animal ultrasound and cardiology at
the University of Pennsylvania’s Section of Sports Medicine and Imaging.
She stayed on there as a Lecturer before joining us here at Tufts in
October 2002. Her expertise in the
field of equine ultrasound provides a broad new diagnostic dimension for the
veterinary school and we welcome both her and Jose.
Dr.
Daniela Bedenice, DVM, DipACVIM,
joined us in August 2001 as a new faculty member in the subsection of Large
Animal Medicine. Danny is a
graduate of the University of Berlin, Germany and before becoming a faculty
member she completed a Large Animal Fellowship at our veterinary school and
subsequent to that a medicine residency. Danny’s
valuable expertise is in the field of equine medical disease where she joins her
colleagues Dr. Mary Rose Paradis DVM, DipACVIM and Dr,.Melissa Mazan DVM,
DipACVIM in providing our clinical medical services.
Dr.
Isabel Jurk, DVM, MSpVM.
Isabel joined us last year as our full-time Ophthalmologist.
We see many injuries and diseases of the eye in our equine patients and
having Isabel’s expertise at hand has been a big plus for the veterinary
school. Isabel attended graduate school at North Carolina State
University where she obtained her degree in Master of Specialized Veterinary
Medicine (MSpVM) in 2001. She also
undertook a residency in Ophthalmology at North Carolina State University
College of Veterinary Medicine from 1998-2001 before coming to Tufts.
You can book an appointment with Isabel for your horse on Tuesdays and
Thursdays of every week and emergencies can be seen at any time.