Welcome Dr. Viktoria Granacka
With specialized expertise in equine internal medicine, ECC, and research, Granacka joins the faculty at Hospital for Large Animals
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
The Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (LACS) promotes the health and well-being of farm animals through environmentally appropriate husbandry and population-based preventive medical practices and therapies. By modeling evidence-based animal and veterinary care and advising animal caretakers of those principles, its members strive to enhance the viability of farms and stables while providing students with practical experience, knowledge, and training to prepare the next generation of large animal veterinarians.
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News
Welcome Dr. Caroline Griffin
Griffin joins the Internal Medicine service at HLA
Tufts Veterinarian Helps Produce First Purebred Herdwick Sheep Born in U.S.
Years of planning, precision timing, and the persistence of a local farmer culminated in the birth of 11 lambs this summer
Dr. Erin King-Podzaline’s Published Research a Mile Marker in Career Devoted to Animal Welfare
TVFS clinician’s research into pain mitigation in piglets published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Professor Emeritus Carl Kirker-Head
Inaugural Marilyn M. Simpson Chair in Equine Medicine, Dr. Kirker-Head has devoted his career to the care and treatment of horses at HLA and beyond
Welcome Dr. Simone March
New member of diagnostic imaging team at HLA with focus on equines
Contact Us
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
200 Westboro Road
No. Grafton, MA 01536
Email: lacs@tufts.edu