Dr Robert McCarthy

DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS

Dr Robert McCarthy graduated from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1983. After internship and residency training at the University of Minnesota he spent several years in private surgical referral practice and as faculty at Louisiana State University. He was boarded by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1992. Dr McCarthy returned to Tufts in 1994 where he spent 28 years as a clinical faculty member in Small Animal Surgery, while simultaneously running his own mobile surgery practice. In his career he has written over 50 journal publications, textbook chapters, and abstracts, as well as help train over 30 surgery residents, 200 small animal interns and 2500 surgery students. When Dr McCarthy transitioned from regular to adjunct faculty in 2022, he was simultaneously elected to the Tufts Faculty Hall of Fame and received the Outstanding Alumni Award. Dr McCarthy is presently involved in all aspects of veterinary surgery He is extremely dedicated to elevating the level of surgical expertise of small animal practitioners and has frequently lectured both nationally and internationally on a wide variety of clinically relevant topics to this group. He has a special interest in surgical control of reproduction and for 15 years coordinated a feral cat control program in the British Virgin Islands utilizing hysterectomy and vasectomy for sterilization rather than traditional spay and neuter. He presently sits on the World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s Reproduction Control Committee. When not working in his own surgical practice, Dr McCarthy frequently does gratuity surgery and consultations for zoos, wildlife centres and special needs organizations.