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Kim Slensky, DVM, DACVECC

Dr. SlenskyDr. Slensky is originally from Connecticut and graduated from veterinary school at Purdue University in Indiana. She completed a small animal rotating medical and surgical internship at the University of Minnesota and practiced for one year in an emergency referral hospital in St. Paul. She completed a three-year residency at the University of Pennsylvania and is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.

Dr. Slensky is a part of a research team that received major grants for the investigation of the effects of low molecular weight heparin in normal cats. This important research is expected to provide the basis for treatment of cats with caudal aortic thromboembolism. Dr. Slensky has lectured at the International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Symposium and has written on deployment morbidity among search and rescue dogs used after the World Trade Center attacks, thoracic and abdominal trauma and endocrine emergencies.