Small Animal Surgery Locum, PLLC

Dirsko J.F. von Pfeil, Dr.med.vet, DVM, DACVS, DECVS, DACVSMR, DECVSMR (Small animals) is the founder and owner of Small Animal Surgery Locum, PLLC, offering primarily orthopedic specialty surgery at private or academic surgical centers on part-time basis. He is licensed in the USA and Europe and speaks German, English, French, Spanish and Swedish.

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If you are in need of a small animal specialty relief surgeon, please use the email function on the contact page  -  see  top  menu.

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In addition to various locum positions, he serves as adjunct professor in small animal orthopedic surgery at Michigan State University, as faculty for the AO Vet North America and volunteers on review boards of multiple veterinary surgical journals.

 

Dr. von Pfeil obtained his veterinary degree at the Free University of Berlin (2001), passed the American license (2006), and is board certified with the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (2008), the European College of Veterinary Surgery (2008), the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation (2016) and the European College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation (Small animals; 2021). He also was designated an ACVS Founding Fellow, Minimally Invasive Surgery (Small Animal Orthopedics; 2021). In the past, he held positions as Assistant Professor at Kansas State, Adjunct Professor at Michigan State (re-instated in 2024), Visiting Scientist at the University of Georgia, and as staff surgeon at several surgical specialty referral centers  in  Alaska,  Virginia,  Washington  DC and Zurich, Switzerland.   

 

Dr. von Pfeil is a frequently invited speaker at national and international veterinary conferences and has given over 130 presentations worldwide on surgical topics, mainly orthopedics; he has made more than 90 contributions to the veterinary literature - a link to Dr. von Pfeil's research can be found here.