Veterinarian Overview
Dr. Grant is a second generation veterinarian with over 45 years experience working with small and exotic animals. Dr. Grant is a graduate of Colorado State University, College of Veterinary Medicine. He developed a keen interest in small animal surgery even prior to his graduation at C.S.U. A member of the first class to pass the rigorous standards for the Registered Veterinary Technician program of California, he focused on surgical technicianship, patient induction, monitoring and recovery, and surgical principles and training at an early age working for his father's veterinary practice. At Colorado State University, where he received his D.V.M. in 1996 and where he completed his DVM course work 5 months early, he completed dual fellowships at the A.M.C. in New York in both Orthopaedic Surgery and Surgical Neurology. He spend the remainder of his education there at C.S.U. working closely with June Boon in the Animal Cardiology Department until graduation where he participated in 7 open heart surgeries on dogs. Dr. Grant and his original group of TPLO surgeons have performed in xs of 15,000 TPLO surgeries since the late 1990's for the repair of cruciate injuries in pets. He attended the University of Arizona prior to being accepted in his DVM program at Colorado State, and is an avid Wildcat fan. He has been and continues to be invited to the orthopaedic surgeon's annual meeting for human surgery, (the annual symposium for the AAOS), where he has been a valued consultant and continues to teach and learn there. He is and has been a long-time member of the SCVMA, AVMA, CVMA, and AVORE. He has also been an expert witness for the state of California. His small animal expertise spans not only orthopaedic surgery, but also soft tissue surgery, and he has presented a wide range of papers and lectures on a wide range of current surgical topics and has collaborated on multiple lecture topics including advanced small animal surgery of the knee, new methodology for the approach and the repair of mild as well as advanced hip dysplasia, tarsal shearing injury, TPLO, meniscal repair, and other topics. He has also been called to perform myelograms, delicate neurosurgical, fracture repair, and other surgical procedures many times over on animals like big cats (lions), gun-shot wounded dogs (for the Palm Springs Police Department), and has appeared on Animal Planet for repairing a cat that could not walk after severe burns to all four limbs. Dr. Grant is one of only 32 current or past orthopaedic surgeons selected to write and publish a chapter for the 3rd edition of the Textbook of Small Animal Surgery by the late Douglas Slatter, DVM, ACVS. Dr. Slatter's text is widely accepted as one of the definitive textbooks on the subject of small animal surgery. Dr. Grant's currently is continuing his research in the field of minimally invasive repair for insufficiencies of the anterior cruciate ligament in dogs, as well as a novel approach to moderate to advanced hip dysplasia in dogs. He has three children and lives with his wife and daughter Rylee in beautiful San Clemente, CA.
