Referral/Specialty Services

The referral practice operates Monday through Friday from 8am-5pm. Upon referral to our facility by your regular veterinarian, an appoint-

ment with the internal medicine or surgery department will be scheduled. Conditions for which your pet may be referred include: diabetes, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), urinary problems, congenital defects, mass removals, fracture repair, ligament damage or intestinal blockage. Our veterinarians perform procedures such as endoscopy, cystoscopy, ultrasonography, PEG tube (feeding tube) placement, CSF tap, chemotherapy, thoracic, abdominal, neurologic, and orthopedic surgery.

About Our Specialists

Barbara A. Lightner, DVM, DACVS   Dr. Barbara A. Lightner is a 1991 graduate of the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She completed a residency in small animal surgery at the Ohio State University in 1996. Dr. Lightner worked as a staff surgeon at Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital in Akron, Ohio for two and a half years upon graduation from her residency program. In 1999 Dr. Lightner and Dr. Hilary K. Matthews formed Capital Veterinary Referral Center for the purpose of offering high quality care to small animal surgical and internal medicine patients in the central Ohio area. With the completion of the new 24-hour facility in 2002 the hospital expanded to include emergency cases.

Dr. Lightner enjoys all aspects of surgical practice and has a special interest in trauma and emergency surgery. She has two cats, Gracie and Joey, at home and Kane, a Doberman Pinscher that travels to the office daily. She also enjoys reading, participates in three-day eventing with her horse Moonlight Bay and races

Standardbred horses.

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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