Internal Medicine Service The Internal Medicine service operates Monday through Friday from 8am-5pm. Upon referral to our facility by your regular veterinarian, an appointment with the internal medicine department will be scheduled. Conditions for which your pet may be referred include: diabetes, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and urinary problems. Our internist performs procedures such as endoscopy, cystoscopy, ultrasonography, PEG tube (feeding tube) placement, CSF tap, and chemotherapy.
About Our Internist Hilary K. Matthews, DVM, PhD, DACVIM Hilary K. Matthews was born in Zanesville, Ohio. She graduated from Brecksville-Broadview Heights Senior High School located in northeast Ohio in May 1980. She graduated cum laude from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio in June 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and Psychology. She then attended The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Columbus, Ohio and graduated cum laude with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in June 1988. In July of 1988, she began a one-year internship in large animal medicine and surgery at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Following completion of her internship, she began a three-year residency in large animal internal medicine at the The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. After completion of her residency in 1992, she became board certified by The American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. In 1992 she began to work as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, and was admitted to the Comparative and Experimental Medicine Program to pursue her doctoral degree. The doctoral degree in renal physiology was received in December of 1996. She then returned to The Ohio State University in 1999 to complete a small animal internal medicine residency. She then became board certified in small animal internal medicine in 2001 and is currently the only diplomat in the specialty of veterinary internal medicine to be double boarded in large and small animal internal medicine. Dr. Matthews treats medical conditions of dogs and cats, but has a special interest in treating conditions of the urinary tract and cancer. |
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