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Specialties:  Surgery  -  Internal Medicine  -  Oncology  -  Rehabilitation


INTERNAL MEDICINE:

David Burgener, DVM, DACVIM
Andrea Balch, DVM, MS, DACVIM

David Burgener, DVM, DACVIM
Dr. Burgener is board-certified in Small Animal Internal Medicine by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He is from Arizona and received his DVM from Colorado State University in 1981. He did his internship at the Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston. He did his residency training in internal medicine and oncology at Michigan State University. He continued at Michigan State as an Assistant Professor of Small Animal Medicine until moving to Phoenix, Arizona where he began the first small animal internal medicine specialty practice in Arizona in 1987. Dr. Burgener has been an associate veterinarian in a specialty hospital in St. Louis since 2001. He has also operated an internal medicine consulting practice in Las Vegas since 1990 and began practicing at the Las Vegas Veterinary Referral Center in 2006. Dr. Burgener has special interests in cardiovascular disease, gastroenterology, and endoscopic procedures.
Andrea Balch, DVM, MS, DACVIM
Dr. Balch is originally from Mesa, AZ.  She received her BS in Agriculture from the University of Arizona in 1996, her DVM from Oregon State and Washington State in 2000, and completed a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Mesa Veterinary Hospital, a private specialty hospital, in 2001.  Dr. Balch continued to practice for 2 years at Mesa Veterinary Hospital before doing a small animal internal medicine residency and Masters of Veterinary Science degree program at Mississippi State University.  Her Masters research was done in collaboration with the American Red Cross and involved developing a sterilization technique for human blood products. Dr. Balch was recently honored with the 2006 American Association of Veterinary Clinicians National Resident of the year award.  Her areas of special interest include transfusion medicine, blood disorders, endocrinology and ultrasound.

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