BluePearl Veterinary Partners
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| Private company | |
| Industry | Pets |
| Founded | 1996, Tampa, Florida |
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Tampa, Florida, United States 28°02′08″N 82°29′32″W / 28.035474°N 82.492135°WCoordinates: 28°02′08″N 82°29′32″W / 28.035474°N 82.492135°W |
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Key people
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Darryl Shaw, MBA, CPA (CEO) Jennifer Welser, DACVO (Chief Medical Officer) Neil Shaw, DVM, DACVIM (Co-Founder) Jeff Dennis, DVM, DACVIM (Co-Founder), Mark Dorfman, DVM, DACVIM (Co-Founder) Dan Lorimer, DVM, DACVO (Co-Founder) Jeff Fox (Chief Information Officer) |
| Products | Veterinary care |
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Number of employees
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3,000+ (2015) |
| Website | bluepearlvet.com |
BluePearl Veterinary Partners is a company owned by Mars Corporation that operates emergency and specialty veterinary hospitals throughout the United States. They currently have hospitals in 21 states.
BluePearl works with primary care providers to provide specialty and emergency care for pets.
BluePearl is one of the largest private providers of approved veterinary residency and internship educational programs in the world.
BluePearl also participates in and conducts clinical trials to study the effectiveness of new drugs and treatments.
More than 475 veterinarians are employed by BluePearl Veterinary Partners.
BluePearl Veterinary Partners was founded as Florida Veterinary Specialists in 1996 by two brothers, Dr. Neil Shaw, a board-certified specialist in veterinary internal medicine, and Darryl Shaw, a certified public accountant with an MBA.
In 2008, Florida Veterinary Specialists and Cancer Treatment Center in Tampa, Fla., NYC Veterinary Specialists and Cancer Treatment Center in New York City and Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center in Kansas City merged to create BluePearl Veterinary Partners.
In 2010, Georgia Veterinary Specialists and Michigan Veterinary Specialists merged with BluePearl Veterinary Partners. Michigan Veterinary Specialists was founded in 1990 by Dr. Dan Lorimer and Dr. Laura DeLellis. It was the first private, referral-based specialty veterinary practice in Michigan. Later, Lorimer founded Georgia Veterinary Specialists with Dr. Mark Dorfman, and Dr. Renee Kaswan.
In February 2010, Dr. Michael Kimura, a specialist in veterinary neurology with BluePearl, assisted in giving a live shark from the Florida Aquarium an MRI after the shark had failed to eat anything and it seemed like there was a foreign object lodged in the shark's esophagus. This is one of the first times a live shark had ever been given and MRI under anesthesia.
In March 2013, Dr. Amy Zalcman, a senior emergency clinician with BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Manhattan, oversaw the removal of 111 pennies from a Jack Russell Terrier named Jack. Dr. Suliman Al-Ghazlat, a specialist in internal medicine with BluePearl, used the non-invasive method Endoscopic foreign body retrieval, to remove the pennies one-by-one. Zalcman, Al-Ghazlat and Jack received international media attention.
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