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Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists is looking to welcome a Full-Time Oncologist to our Medical Oncology team and rapidly growing hospital!

Who We Are: 

Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists is a recently remodeled specialty hospital located in Sugar Land, TX, a thriving city with a family feel just 20 miles southwest of downtown Houston. 

We’re a close-knit group of experienced veterinary professionals that pride ourselves on our ability to offer mentorship, support, and a collaborative workplace. In addition to taking care of pets, we also take care of each other. Through day-to-day interactions and organized team-building activities, we create an environment where personal health, well-being, and work-life balance is important, and every individual matters.   

Learn more about us by visiting our website at https://www.slvetspecialists.com/.

Our Culture and Team:

Our mission at Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists is to provide the best possible veterinary specialty and emergency care for pets and their owners with outstanding customer service, understanding, compassion and communication. We recognize, respect, and support the value of every co-worker and our referring veterinarians in this TEAM effort to succeed in OUR MISSION. Our core values—do the right thing, fun, wow service, trust, respect, responsibility, integrity, compassion, knowledge, and loyalty—guide everything we do at Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists. 

When you join our team, you will be working closely with our Medical Director and Internist, Dr. Emily Medici.  Dr. Medici is originally from Baton Rouge, LA and received her DVM degree from the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2004.  She practiced in a small animal private practice for two years before entering a small animal Internal Medicine residency at Oklahoma State University which she completed in 2009.  She practiced for two years in Kansas in a specialty clinic before deciding she missed the South. 

Our Hospital:

In addition to medical oncology, our team offers emergency care, critical care, diagnostic imaging, ICU, internal medicine, neurology, surgery, and radiation oncology.  We are well equipped with digital radiography, a 16 slice CT with 3D recon abilities, Halcyon Linear Accelerator, an ultrasound, MRI, and a full in-house laboratory. We offer fluoroscopy and laparoscopy and have scope towers for urinary, gastrointestinal, nasal, and orthopedic cases.  We have a great atmosphere and established referral base.

Our Community:

Our community has outstanding schools, great restaurants, live music, shopping, and 25+ parks!  Sugar Land is home to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Fort Bend Children’s Discovery Center, and the Houston Astros Triple-A affiliate team, there is something for everyone!

Explore Sugar Land, TX | Events, Attractions & Things To Do (visitsugarlandtx.com)

 We offer a full compensation and benefit package including:

• Very Competitive base salary!!
• Monthly Production Bonus of 25% (No Negative Accrual)
• Very Competitive Sign-On Bonus!
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance - with company contribution HSA account
• License reimbursement!
• Start with a minimum of 4-5 Weeks of PTO!!
• Continuing Education allowance $2,500 for FT DVM’s
• 401k with company match
• Generous Paid Time Off for work/life balance
• US National Park Pass to enjoy your time off!
• Flexible schedule
• Practice freedom - no corporate protocols or mandatory formulary
• AVMA PLIT Professional Liability Insurance covered!
• Relocation Assistance!
• Pet Discounts!

If you would like to be a part of a growing hospital that practices superior pet care while maintaining a family feel, we would like to hear from you! 

Please contact Amedeo Trotta, Hospital Director at atrotta@lakefieldvet.com with any questions or to submit your resume. 

About Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists

Our partnership with Lakefield Veterinary Group is a long-term relationship dedicated to compassionate veterinary care. We are building communities of talented and like-minded veterinarians that will embody our core values of Respect, Wow Service, Learning, Fun, and will always Do the Right Thing. There is no greater reward than strengthening the human/pet bond. It is our responsibility to go beyond the borders of our local legacy and provide expert level veterinary medicine to pets all over the world during our annual trip with World Vets. We invite you to come experience the Lakefield family.

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