Inês R. De Carvalho Email and Phone Number

Providing innovative and efficient online veterinary triage and counseling services to pet owners. Through video calls, I offer expert advice helping to guide owners through health concerns, day to day questions and pet management. My role ensures that clients receive timely guidance, helping them make informed decisions about the well-being of their pets, while respecting legal boundaries.

Focused in primary care, covering Internal Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, and Elective Surgeries in a Small Animal Practice equipped with an in-house laboratory, X-ray, ultrasound, and surgical suite, with a particular emphasis on reproduction cases.

Provided personalized guidance on dog nutrition, behavior, and health to customers. Authored engaging content and articles aimed at pet owners/guardians.

Focused on Internal Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, and Elective Surgeries at a Small Animal First Opinion Practice. Equipped with an in-house laboratory, X-ray, ultrasound, and surgery room, focusing on primary care and spay/neuter procedures.

Over a 3-month period, I was deeply engaged in providing nutritional consultations for healthy and ill dogs, cats, and occasionally horses, managing around 75 cases with diverse nutritional needs, including obesity, renal and hepatic diseases, food allergies, IBD, pancreatitis, hypercalcemia, homemade diets, and urolithiasis. Under the mentorship of two ESVCN residents and two ECVCN diplomates at a university clinic and nutrition laboratory, I developed skills in taking detailed nutritional histories, adjusting existing nutritional plans (e.g., for the intensive care unit), calculating new dietary recommendations, comparing various diets to find the most suitable for each patient, and designing homemade diets for dogs and cats.I started with simpler cases, progressively handling more complex ones and achieving the ability to manage most independently by the end. In my final month, I engaged in owner communications, addressing common issues like excessive treat giving, under my mentor’s guidance.Additionally, I participated in weekly residency meetings (case discussions and journal club), monthly companion animal nutrition research group meetings, assisted in collecting and processing samples for a PhD student's in vivo canine study, and contributed to organizing a nutrition stand at a veterinary expo/fair.

Dissertation: The Use of Dogs in Animal Assisted Interventions in Portugal - Welfare Assessment and Regulation Proposal

Open Week is an immersive externship program designed for Veterinary Medicine students to experience the daily operations of a veterinary hospital firsthand. Under the mentorship of Dr. Luís Carvalho (CEO) and seasoned veterinary surgeons, participants engage in various clinical settings, including triage, consultations, surgeries, emergencies, imaging, and laboratory work.

In this period, I shadowed and assisted resident DVMs with consultations, treatments, emergencies, and surgeries, serving the needs of all GNR horses in the Lisbon area.