Dr. Emilia Wong Gordon, DVM, DABVP (Shelter Medicine Practice)
Dr. Gordon provides mobile and consulting services to animal shelters and other organizations engaged in animal welfare work through her veterinary practice, Haven Veterinary Services. She also lectures regularly on shelter topics at several universities in Western Canada and volunteers with groups focused on animal welfare and diversity, equity, and inclusion in veterinary medicine.
Dr. Gordon’s interests include infectious disease (particularly outbreak prevention, investigation, and management), community medicine, internal medicine, and behaviour. She has co-authored several publications on shelter infectious disease and was the lead veterinarian investigating a multi-facility feline gastroenteritis outbreak in 2018 that led to the discovery of a novel feline virus, feline chaphamaparvovirus.
Originally from the United States, Dr. Gordon holds veterinary licenses in California and British Columbia. She obtained her veterinary degree from the University of California, Davis in 2005. In 2016, she completed the UF Graduate Certificate in Shelter Medicine. In 2020, she became the first board-certified shelter medicine specialist in Canada.