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DR. WILLIAM D. LISKA received his D.V.M. from Iowa State University in 1973. He came to Houston in 1976 after completing his internship and surgical residency at The Animal Medical Center in New York and has been receiving referral surgery patients since then. He became Board Certified by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1980. He is a founder of Gulf Coast Veterinary Surgery in 1988 and Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists in 1989.

DR. WAYNE O. WHITNEY received his D.V.M. from Louisiana State University in 1982. After one year of general practice in Houston, he completed a one year internship and a three year surgical residency at the Animal Medical Center in New York. He became Board Certified by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1989. Dr. Whitney was with Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists when its doors opened that same year.

DR. BRIAN S. BEALE received his D.V.M. from The University of Florida in 1985. He completed an internship at Friendship Hospital for Animals in Washington, D.C., and a surgical residency at The University of Florida. He became Board Certified by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1991. Dr. Beale was an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine prior to joining Gulf Coast Veterinary Surgery in 1992. Dr. Beale is an adjunct assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine.

DR. HEIDI A. HOTTINGER received her D.V.M. from The Ohio State University in 1990, followed by an internship at The Animal Medical Center in New York City. She then completed a surgical residency at Michigan State University with special rotations in surgical oncology at Colorado State University and Flint Medical Center. Following her residency, she returned to The Animal Medical Center in New York where she held the position of staff surgeon and instructor for two years. She is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. She joined Gulf Coast Veterinary Surgery in 1996.

DR. RANDALL C. LONGSHORE received his D.V.M. from the University of Tennessee in 1992. He completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery and a residency in neurology at the University of Missouri. He became Board Certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine – Specialty of Neurology in 1997. He practiced both veterinary medical neurology and neurosurgery exclusively with 2 other board certified neurologists in Phoenix, Arizona for 8 years. Dr. Longshore joined Gulf Coast Veterinary Surgery, Orthopedics and Neurology in 2004.

Dr. Suzanne L. Hunter received her D.V.M. from Cornell University in 1999. She completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Oradell Animal Hospital in New Jersey followed by a 3-year surgery residency at The Ohio State University. Following her residency, she returned to Oradell Animal Hospital where she held the position of staff surgeon for one year. Dr. Hunter became Board Certified by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2004. She joined Gulf Coast Veterinary Surgery in 2004.

DR.CARLEY ABRAMSON received her DVM in 1999 from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in Massachusetts, and went on to the University of Georgia for a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery. Her residency training in neurology and neurosurgery was completed at the University of Wisconsin and the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, England under the guidance of American and European specialists. While in England, Dr. Abramson developed an interest in metabolic disease affecting the nervous system, and continued investigations in this area when she joined the faculty at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2003. As an assistant professor and clinical neurologist/neurosurgeon at Ohio State, her research interests expanded to include congenital/heritable neurological disorders such as hydrocephalus and Chiari-like malformation. Dr. Abramson became board certified by the ACVIM (Neurology) in 2004. Dr. Abramson joined Gulf Coast Veterinary Surgery, Orthopedics and Neurology in 2005.

The Specialists at Gulf Coast Veterinary Surgery, Orthopedics & Neurology are available to consult with your veterinarian.
Please call if you have any questions:
Phone: 713-693-1122
Fax: 713- 693-1110

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