NVA launches three-part veterinary documentary series

Filmed across NVA’s health system, the series looks at the people, expertise and collaboration behind veterinary care. “Some of the most important advances in veterinary medicine start with a question that comes up in everyday practice,” said John Bruno, NVA’s chief executive officer. He said the series gives professionals across the system space to tell their stories in their own words.

The opening episode, “When The Mentor Scrubs In,” features Sean Aiken, DVM, MS, DACVS, a veterinary surgeon at VSH Sorrento Valley in San Diego. A board-certified surgeon and former Visiting Investigator at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Aiken specializes in complex orthopedic cases and is now focused on training surgeons.

“When The Signs Don't Add Up” follows Baye Williamson, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology), a veterinary neurologist at VERC Hawaii in Honolulu. The company describes her as Hawaii’s only veterinary neurologist; the episode examines what access to specialized care can mean for island communities.

The third story, “One Patient, A Continuum of Care,” features Lauren Wertheimer, DVM, who works in general practice, emergency and critical care at Red Bank Veterinary Hospital in New Jersey. It follows how diagnostics, specialist collaboration and treatment can come together under one roof, sometimes in a single day, as a patient’s needs change.

The episodes are available on NVA’s YouTube channel. More information is at www.nva.com/advancing-veterinary-medicine. NVA says it operates more than 1,200 hospitals and pet resorts across North America, including general practice, specialty and emergency hospitals, pet resorts and equine veterinary services.