Former UF faculty surgeon recognized for fellowship achievement

The ACVS is the specialty board that sets the standards for advanced professionalism in veterinary surgery and is the specialty organization recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association for the certification of veterinarians in large and small animal surgery. Mentored by Dr. Stan Kim, a professor of small animal surgery at UF, Carvajal completed his fellowship in July and is now working as an orthopaedic surgeon at VCA Northwest Veterinary Specialists in Portland, Oregon. He is also a UFCVM graduate from the Class of 2017, and completed his residency at UF in small animal surgery before joining the faculty as a clinical instructor and entering the ACVS fellowship program.

The University of Florida’s veterinary college is the only one in the world to offer four ACVS-approved fellowship programs: minimally invasive surgery – soft tissue, surgical oncology, minimally invasive orthopaedic surgery, and joint replacement surgery.