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Gabriela Castellanos

Gabriela Castellanos

Gilbert,AZ

Summary

Driven veterinarian adept at managing all facets of animal medical care. Seeking for enriching my experience even further while sharing my knowledge with my working team. Accustomed to managing high volume of patients, in a fast-paced environment and delivering quality patient care. Team-oriented mentality and comfortable working in multicultural, multilingual environments.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Veterinarian

H&G Medicina y Rehabilitación Equina
Quito, Ecuador
07.2019 - Current

Self-owned ambulatory equine medical services, soft tissue surgery and equine physiotherapy. Potbelly pig internal medicine and basic soft tissue surgery.

Fellow

University Of California, Davis
Davis, CA
07.2023 - 08.2024
  • Provided mentorship and supervision to students, giving advice on study skills and helping with learning problems.
  • Discussed research summaries with project team to monitor progress.
  • Acquire and practice specialized knowledge in advance imaging diagnosis.

Volunteer

Red Bucket Equine Rescue
Chino Hills, CA
10.2022 - 01.2023
  • Daily care of the horses and donkeys in the rescue facility.
  • Urgent care, first aid and wound care of the critical cases at the rescue

Veterinary Doctor

Weatherford Equine Clinic
Weatherford, United States
12.2021 - 01.2022

Help with overall activities specially in-patient care since they were short in staffed. Basic soft tissue surgery, farm calls, emergency and extern tutoring.

Intern

Live Oak Veterinary Clinic
Jacksboro, United States
10.2021 - 12.2021

Mix animal country hospital. Wild range of species medicine and surgical care. Help with the equine consults and assist with the rest of species patients mainly livestock. Relief the staff taking care of small animal surgeries such as spays and dogs surgical insemination.

Intern

Brazos Valley Equine Hospitals
Stephenville, United States
05.2018 - 05.2019

Ambulatory and in-house veterinary services in the range of sports medicine and internal medicine. Soft tissue surgery in-house and field surgery. Full anesthesia and sedation management. 24h in-patient care. Emergency and Reproduction.

Intern

KESMARK rehabilitation centre
Lexington, United States
11.2017 - 12.2017

Hands-on management of equine rehabilitation programs in the facility: Swimming. vibration plate, aquatrot, massage, acupressure and acupuncture. Training workshops for the use of the hyperbaric chamber. *Ended just a month before the year because of the offer of an internship*

Extern

Brazos Valley Equine Hospitals
Stephenville, United States
10.2017 - 11.2017

Rotation between internal medicine and sports medicine as well as in-house and ambulatory patients. General patient care and assisting in soft tissue and orthopedic surgery. Field and in- house surgery.

Extern

Lexington Equine Surgery and Sports Medicine
Lexington , United States
08.2017 - 09.2017

Assistant with orthopedic surgeries, check-in and check-out of the hospitalized patients. Pre-surgical evaluation and preparation. Inpatient monitoring and medications.

Intern

Hospital Docente de Especialidades Veterinarias Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Quito, Ecuador
08.2016 - 02.2017

Rotation on small animal medicine, surgery and laboratory.

Extern

Hospital de Referencia “La Equina”
Málaga, Spain
04.2016 - 05.2016

Hospital patients monitoring and medications. Surgeon´s Fist assistant during surgical procedures. Supervised anesthesia monitoring. Performing inpatient´s Physiotherapy. Teaching sessions with necropsies and training session on arthroscopy.

Extern

ProVet Wildlife Services
Hoedspruit, South Africa
03.2016 - 04.2016

Active on field veterinary services. Mainly Rhino health care and relocation and as well as other species as Cheetah and Lions. Special emphasis on sedation and wound care.

Extern

Moosweid Pferdeklinik
Obfelden, Switzerland
01.2016 - 02.2016
  • 2 1/2 months of hands-on field equine internal medicine services, handling of hospitalized patients and basic soft tissue surgery.

Extern

Muri Kleinetiere Praxis
Muri, Switzerland
06.2014 - 07.2014

Supervised medical and surgical management of small animal patients.

Education

Specialty - Large Animal Ultrasonography

University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
08-2024

Zoonosis And One Health Masters - Medicine

Universidad Autonoma De Barcelona
Barcelona - España
11.2020

Veterinary Doctor - Veterinary Medicine

Universidad San Francisco De Quito
Quito - Ecuador
02.2017

High School Diploma -

International Baccalaureate
Quito - Ecuador
2009

Skills

  • Acute and Chronic Treatment
  • Horsemanship
  • Breed and Species Knowledge
  • Medical Charts and Records
  • Emergent equine Care
  • Flexible Schedule
  • Pain Management
  • Team Management
  • Strong Work Ethic
  • Fully licensed in Ecuador and licensing in process in United States (ECFVG)
  • First Aid
  • Friendly, Positive Attitude
  • Training & Development
  • Multilingual

Languages

Spanish, English
First Language
German
Advanced
C1
French
Beginner
A1

Affiliations

Rider since the age of 5.

2015-2017 ridding teacher

Pro-bono veterinary member for nationwide spay and neuter campaigns to control stray animal population in Ecuador.

Timeline

Fellow

University Of California, Davis
07.2023 - 08.2024

Volunteer

Red Bucket Equine Rescue
10.2022 - 01.2023

Veterinary Doctor

Weatherford Equine Clinic
12.2021 - 01.2022

Intern

Live Oak Veterinary Clinic
10.2021 - 12.2021

Veterinarian

H&G Medicina y Rehabilitación Equina
07.2019 - Current

Intern

Brazos Valley Equine Hospitals
05.2018 - 05.2019

Intern

KESMARK rehabilitation centre
11.2017 - 12.2017

Extern

Brazos Valley Equine Hospitals
10.2017 - 11.2017

Extern

Lexington Equine Surgery and Sports Medicine
08.2017 - 09.2017

Intern

Hospital Docente de Especialidades Veterinarias Universidad San Francisco de Quito
08.2016 - 02.2017

Extern

Hospital de Referencia “La Equina”
04.2016 - 05.2016

Extern

ProVet Wildlife Services
03.2016 - 04.2016

Extern

Moosweid Pferdeklinik
01.2016 - 02.2016

Extern

Muri Kleinetiere Praxis
06.2014 - 07.2014

Zoonosis And One Health Masters - Medicine

Universidad Autonoma De Barcelona

Veterinary Doctor - Veterinary Medicine

Universidad San Francisco De Quito

High School Diploma -

International Baccalaureate

Specialty - Large Animal Ultrasonography

University of California, Davis