Simone Guerios, DVM, MS, PhD

Dr. Simone Guerios is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Shelter Medicine at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine, where she serves as the service chief and clerkship coordinator for the Veterinary Community Outreach Program (VCOP). VCOP creates valuable synergy between veterinary education and local animal welfare initiatives, providing veterinary students with hands-on surgical and medical experience while offering services that reduce pet overpopulation, improve shelter animal health, facilitate adoptions, and educate the community on responsible pet ownership. Before joining the University of Florida as faculty, Dr. Guerios worked as an Associate Clinical Professor in Soft Tissue Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil. Her passion for shelter medicine began when she provided veterinary care to dogs and cats in low-income communities in Brazil. She later founded a shelter medicine community outreach program and established the first mobile neutering unit in the country.

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 veterinary students in high volume spay/neuter surgery technique, they also receive tutoring in more advanced surgical procedures including limb amputation, wound repair, enucleation, hernia repair, tumor removal and other frequent procedures that occur in shelter animal medicine. Students learn how to provide assistance in the medical care of pets that have critical medical conditions such as pets that are victims of drive by shootings, animal abuse and pets that have neoplastic growths that require removal in order to provide them quality of life and survival possibilities.

— Development of high quality surgical protocols for shelter programs

— High quality high volume spay neuter

— Surgical oncology

— Perineal hernia repair