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Sonya Gordon, BSC, DVM, DVSc, Diplomate ACVIMBoehringer Ingelheim Sponsored our November DCVMA Meeting - Click on their Logo to goto Their Website

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Sonya G. Gordon, DVM, DVSc, DACVIM (Cardiology)
Sonya Gordon, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM our November DCVMA Speaker Sponsored by Boehringer IngelheimDr. Gordon is an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Texas A&M University (TAMU). She graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1994 and earned her DVSc in Veterinary Cardiology from there in 1998. Dr. Gordon became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Cardiology) in 1999. She is a charter fellow of the Michael E. DeBakey Institute for Comparative Cardiovascular Sciences and Biomedical Devices at TAMU. Dr. Gordon received the Richard H. Davis Teaching Award at TAMU in 2004 for excellence in teaching. She has published numerous papers on the pharmokinetics of cardiac drugs and techniques for intravascular coil placement. Dr. Gordon has served as the principal investigator for several cardiac drug related studies, including the "Effect of carvedilol in dogs with chronic degenerative valve disease" and "The acute hemodynamic effects of pimobendan in dogs with advanced chronic degenerative atrioventricular valve disease".

Research Interests
   Canine chronic degenerative valve disease
   Interventional cardiology
   Cardiomyopathies 


Special interests include clinical pathology, wildlife medicine and the Civil War.




November 11, 2008