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Toronto Animal Services – Part-Time Veterinarian

Toronto Animal Services is the largest municipal pound in Canada in the Municipal Licensing & Standards Division of the Toronto Public Service. TAS has four animal shelters located in North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough and the downtown core with 65 employees that work either in the shelter or in the field. Every year, a thousand dogs and three thousand cats are adopted from Toronto Animal Services. Over 3700 sterilizations procedures are performed on cats, dogs and rabbits at the City Spay/Neuter Clinics annually.

September 2006 – October 2013
Toronto, Ontario

• Worked a minimum of 17.5 hours per week.
• Supervised the day -to -day operation of all assigned staff at Toronto Animal Services (TAS). The number direct reports were 35. These TAS employees were Animal Control & Care Officers (ACCOs) that worked in the shelter and in the City Spay/Neuter Clinics.
• Supervised, motivated and trained and educated staff.
• Set up, oversaw and directed Sterilization Clinic operations and services as part of the Toronto Animal Services Veterinary Team (TASVT). I was one of 3 veterinarians hired in September 2006 to initiate in-house veterinary services for Toronto Animal Services.
• Provided input into and administered assigned budget as pertained to the City Spay/Neuter Clinics as part of the TASVT.
• Performed pre-operative examinations and sterilizations on shelter animals including immature and animals owned by the public. I performed sterilization procedures on dogs, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs. In the last four years, my main focus was performing surgeries averaging 1800 per year
• Performed other surgical procedures on shelter animals including umbilical hernia repair, dental extractions, lumpectomy, tail amputation, cystotomy, enucleation and dewclaw removal.
• Examined animals in the City’s custody, provided appropriate diagnoses of diseases and injuries, and provided appropriate medical treatment, monitored treatment and made recommendations regarding the animal’s final disposition. Where appropriate and in co-operation with the Regional Supervisor, directed and supervised staff to provide medical treatment, vaccinations, perform euthanasia or other actions regarding animals under the City’s custody.
• In collaboration with the Regional Supervisors, made every reasonable effort to ensure that the health of the animals under the custody of the City is properly maintained. This included addressing disease spread, vaccinations, preventive measures and dietary requirements.
• Made recommendations and assisted The City wide Manager in developing, reviewing and amending policies and procedures. I was the lead member of the TASVT who developed in collaboration with the Toronto Animal Services Management Team (TASMT), the TAS Euthanasia Policy for Domestic Animals, which is humane and complies with all relevant legislation. This policy was implemented April 13, 2008.
• Made recommendations and assisted The City wide Manager in developing, reviewing and amending policies and procedures. I was the lead member of the TASVT who developed in collaboration with the Toronto Animal Services Management Team (TASMT), the TAS Euthanasia Policy for Domestic Animals, which is humane and complies with all relevant legislation. This policy was implemented April 13, 2008.
• Monitored animals that have bitten and were under isolation.
• Provided advice, training and reporting on issues relating to zoonoses exposures. Zoonoses are diseases that are transmitted from animals to people.

Toronto Humane Society – Part-Time Veterinarian

The Toronto Humane Society is the largest in Canada with an annual budget of $8 million and over 100 employees in the later years that I worked there. There were 4 full time and 8 part-time veterinarians that worked either in the Toronto Humane Society Clinic or Shelter. The Toronto Humane Society had up until 2001, the City Contract for the downtown core to be a pound and received $780,000 annually to house, maintain and dispose of dogs and cats.

• Self-employed during this time. I also did locum work at private small animal practices in Richmond Hill.
• Vaccinated owned dogs and cats that were scheduled to be sterilized at the Toronto Humane Society Clinic.
• Vaccinated owned dogs and cats that were scheduled to be sterilized at the Toronto Humane Society Clinic.
• Performed sterilizations on shelter dogs, cats and rabbits and dogs and cats owned by the public.
• Developed an expertise in small animal dentistry while at the Toronto Humane Society.

January 1992 – December 2005
Toronto, Ontario

University of Guelph, Ontario Veterinary College

• Graduated with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine – HONOURS PROGRAM WITH DISTINCTION June 4, 1987.
• Passed National Board Examination (Parts A and B) for Veterinary Medicine, which I completed May 13, 1987. Consequently, I would be able to practice veterinary medicine in the Unites States and I was granted the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Certificate of Qualification
• Received in 1986, the Canadian Veterinary Journal Prize for being one of four veterinary students with the highest marks in third year.
• Assisted in a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Project on short-term living rat liver cells during the summer of 1986 in the Department of Pathology at the University of Toronto with Veterinary Pathologist, Dr. Tony Hayes.
• Was listed as the second author as a result of this NSERC Project in the following publication: Influences of Glutathione on Different Cytocidal Responses of Monolayer Rat Hepatocytes Exposed to Aflatoxin B1 and Acetaminophen. Hayes M.A., Murray C. E. and T. H. Rushmore. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Vol 85, 1-10 (1986).
• Studied the Globule Leukocyte in Bovine Broncho-Alveolar Lavage as part of a NSERC Project during the summer of 1984 in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Guelph with Dr. Amreek Singh. This research involved the use of the electron microscope.
• Received in 1983, the Trevor-Lloyd Jones Award for the highest grade in pre-veterinary year.
• Received in 1981, the University of Guelph Entrance Scholarship.

September 1981-June 1987
Guelph, Ontario

University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Social Science

• Completed Business 257 with an A, which is a prerequisite course for Masters of Business Administration. It is a basic accounting course.
• Participated with a group of three other business students in doing a feasibility study on building prefabricated fencing targeting homes in subdivisions. I presented our feasibility study to the class.
• Was practicing general small animal medicine and surgery in veterinary clinics in London, Ontario during this time.

September 1989-April 1990
London, Ontario