Western Veterinary Specialists-University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Plasmapheresis, PIRRT
Team Members
Serge Chalhoub
DVM, DACVIM (SAIM)
University of Montreal
Animal Medical Center, New York
Fellowship in Nephrology and Hemodialysis
Born and raised in Montreal, Dr. Chalhoub graduated from the DVM program at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMV) of the University of Montreal in 2004. He then completed a one-year rotating small animal internship at the same institution. After working for two years as a general practitioner and emergency veterinarian at the DMV Centre in Montreal, Dr. Chalhoub pursued a residency in small animal internal medicine at the Animal Medical Center (AMC) in New York City. Once completed in 2009 he stayed on at the AMC as their first renal/hemodialysis fellow. During this time, he was also trained in interventional radiology/endoscopy (urethral/ureteral/tracheal stents, cystoscopy-assisted ectopic ureter ablation, lithotripsy).
Valerie Madden
DVM, DACVECC
VCA Canada CARE Centre
Cornell University
Dr. Valerie Madden grew up on northern Vancouver Island and attended undergraduate studies at the University of Victoria. She completed her veterinary degree at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in 2010. She completed an internship at VCA Canada CARE Centre in Calgary and stayed on there as an emergency doctor for the following year. Val went on to finish an emergency and critical care residency at Cornell in Ithaca NY, and in 2015 became a board certified Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (DACVECC).