Veterinarian Overview
Dr. Hanes is a 1978 graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. Gary grew up on a small Thoroughbred farm in Hemet, California where he helped his father and the local equine veterinarian care for race track layups, foaling mares, and young horses before their training began. Following high school graduation he enrolled at UC Davis and completed a bachelor degree in physiology before entering the veterinary program. After leaving veterinary school Dr. Hanes completed a large animal internship at Texas A&M University followed by an equine surgical residency at The Ohio State University. This led, in 1982, to his first position in private practice at the newly opened Southwest Equine Hospital in Scottsdale, AZ where he performed surgeries ranging from colic to fracture repair as well as most other aspects of general equine practiceBut it was the desire to return to the west coast when Gary returned to California and settled in the San Francisco bay area in 1989 to to begin working with Dr. Van Noy and Dr. Wayne Browning who were partners in Briarwood at that time. Two years later Dr. Hanes travelled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where he spent a year as director of a general veterinary practice in that city, having patients that ranged from horses and cows, dogs and cats, to falcons and camels. In 1992 the opportunity to return to a surgical practice again presented itself, so Dr. Hanes once again returned to the Bay Area to perform surgery at the Peninsula Equine Medical Center in Menlo Park. Four years later he again partnered with Dr. Van Noy at Briarwood Equine and with the retirement of Dr. Van Noy from the practice in 1992, Dr. Hanes took over and continues to run the business as a solo practitioner today. When Dr. Hanes isn't in the field treating horses he enjoys trail riding, woodworking, bicycle riding as well as caring for a his small menagerie of livestock, including three donkeys, several chickens, as well as the usual domestic pets- one dog and two cats.
