Simone Guerios

Simone Guerios, DVM, MS, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor In Shelter Medicine

Department: Small Animal Clinical Sciences
Business Email: sdguerios@ufl.edu

About Simone Guerios

Dr. Guerios is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Shelter Medicine and Coordinator of the Shelter Animal Sterilization and Population Management Clerkship at the Miami-Dade Animal Services, at the University of Florida. In her position, she focuses on training and educating students to make veterinarians ready for shelter practice. Her clinical interests include medical and surgical diseases commonly found in animal shelters and high-quality high volume spay-neuter (HQHVSN) techniques. Prior to accepting a faculty position at University of Florida, she worked as a Clinical Associate Professor in Soft Tissue Surgery and Surgical Oncology at Federal University of Parana, Brazil. She started working with shelter medicine in Brazil, where she co-founded a spay-neuter program for the local low-income community. The program also provided community education, including public health, zoonosis and animal welfare.

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Accomplishments

Fear Free Certification
2020 · Fear Free Shelters
Visitor Scholar at the Surgical Oncology Department
2013 · University of Florida
Small Animal Surgery Professor of the year Award
2010 · Federal university of Parana, School of Veterinary Medicine
Externship
2002 · University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2018-2021
VEM5864 Sheltr Steril/Pop Mgt
2020-2023
VEM5321 Int Vet Med Shelt Sys
2021-2023
VEM5322 Shelter Medicine
2021-2024
VEM5342 Community Cat Mgmt
2022-2023
VEM5863 Shelter Practice Clk
2023-2024
VEM5891 Comm Outreach Prog

Research Profile

— Development of high quality surgical protocols for shelter programs

— High quality high volume spay neuter

— Surgical oncology

— Perineal hernia repair

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0001-7927-786X

Areas of Interest
  • Oncology
  • Veterinary Education

Publications

2022
COVID-19 associated reduction in elective spay-neuter surgeries for dogs and cats.
Frontiers in veterinary science. 9 [DOI] 10.3389/fvets.2022.912893. [PMID] 36176703.
2022
Terminologia sobre abandono de animais domésticos para uso na América Latina
Research, Society and Development. 11(14) [DOI] 10.33448/rsd-v11i14.36139.
2021
Lip Commissure to Eyelid Transposition Flap to Correct Eyelid Agenesis in Cats in a Shelter Setting – a Case Series.
Topics in companion animal medicine. 45 [DOI] 10.1016/j.tcam.2021.100557. [PMID] 34233226.
2021
Optimizing heartworm diagnosis in dogs using multiple test combinations.
Parasites & vectors. 14(1) [DOI] 10.1186/s13071-021-04715-4. [PMID] 33902687.
2020
Autologous tunica vaginalis graft to repair perineal hernia in shelter dogs.
Veterinary and animal science. 9 [DOI] 10.1016/j.vas.2020.100122. [PMID] 32734123.
2020
Heartworm prevalence in dogs versus cats: Multiple diagnostic modalities provide new insights.
Veterinary parasitology. 277S [DOI] 10.1016/j.vpoa.2020.100027. [PMID] 34392951.
2019
Abdominal ultrasonographic findings in dogs with mammary tumors: association with tumor characteristics and survival
TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES. 43(6):808-816 [DOI] 10.3906/vet-1901-37.
2017
Single-aliquot, non-bronchoscopic bronchoalveolar lavage in the diagnosis of metastatic mammary tumours in dogs.
The Journal of small animal practice. 58(3):168-173 [DOI] 10.1111/jsap.12609. [PMID] 28267221.
2015
Adrenocortical tumor in a cat secreting more than one type of corticosteroid.
JFMS open reports. 1(2) [DOI] 10.1177/2055116915617970. [PMID] 28491398.
2015
Infrared Thermography in Dogs with Mammary Tumors and Healthy Dogs.
Journal of veterinary internal medicine. 29(6):1578-83 [DOI] 10.1111/jvim.13597. [PMID] 26289007.
2015
Subcutaneous administration of paclitaxel in dogs with cancer: A preliminary study.
The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne. 56(8):823-30 [PMID] 26246628.
2013
Ultrasonographic examination in non-human primates with acute abdomen signs.
Journal of medical primatology. 42(6):336-42 [DOI] 10.1111/jmp.12065. [PMID] 23931624.
2011
Ultrasonography of small intestinal obstructions: a contemporary approach.
The Journal of small animal practice. 52(9):484-90 [DOI] 10.1111/j.1748-5827.2011.01104.x. [PMID] 21896023.
2009
Lidocaine prevents referred hyperalgesia associated with cystitis.
Neurourology and urodynamics. 28(5):455-60 [DOI] 10.1002/nau.20670. [PMID] 19291783.
2008
Blockade of NGF and trk receptors inhibits increased peripheral mechanical sensitivity accompanying cystitis in rats.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology. 295(1):R111-22 [DOI] 10.1152/ajpregu.00728.2007. [PMID] 18448607.
2008
Cannabinoid receptor 2 is increased in acutely and chronically inflamed bladder of rats.
Neuroscience letters. 445(1):130-4 [DOI] 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.08.076. [PMID] 18778751.
2006
Nerve growth factor mediates peripheral mechanical hypersensitivity that accompanies experimental cystitis in mice.
Neuroscience letters. 392(3):193-7 [PMID] 16203088.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy
2007 · University of Wisconsin, Madison
Msc
2000 · Federal University of Parana
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
1997 · Federal University of Parana

Contact Details

Emails:
Business:
sdguerios@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO BOX 100126
College of Veterinary Medicine
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Business Street:
3400 NE 53RD AVE
GAINESVILLE FL 32609