Orthopedic Veterinary Surgeon

Orthopedic Surgeon Opportunity

Kansas City Canine Orthopedics is exclusively dedicated to achieving success in one hundred percent of our patients by seeking to be the best animal hospital specializing in orthopedic and sports medicine in the Midwest. You are joining a team with an undeniable commitment to the highest level of qualifications, including board-certification in surgery, published clinical research, and globally recognized fellowship status in Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Surgery. Our mission is centered on alleviating pain and optimizing mobility, function, strength, and quality of life for every pet patient we see. This dedication to excellence is reflected in our 5-star community trust rating. If you are seeking to grow your career alongside world-class specialists, this is the environment where you can truly do your best work. Working as a teammate at our sub-specialized facility means you are directly contributing to leading-edge veterinary medicine. You will work alongside board-certified veterinary surgeons, including one of only eighteen surgeons globally with fellowship status in Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Surgery and the only board-certified canine sports medicine specialist in the Kansas City area. This level of expertise ensures an unparalleled environment for learning, collaboration, and professional advancement. Our hospital culture is built around dedication and preparation, mirroring the successful mindset of athletes, which ultimately results in the best outcomes. We believe in providing you with the tools and mentorship necessary to succeed and achieve your professional goals in this demanding field. The quality of medicine here is defined by specialization, research, and technical capability. We operate as the specialists of specialists, focused solely on orthopedics to provide the most consistent results. You will be actively involved in advanced procedures such as ACL TPLO, Arthroscopy, Patellar Luxation, Elbow and Hip Dysplasia repair, Fracture Repair, and Gait Analysis. Our surgeons have extensive training, including PhD research in canine hip replacement, and utilize state-of-the-art diagnostics and techniques like 3D printing and virtual surgery to plan and execute complex cases. This focus on advanced veterinary orthopedic services ensures that our patients and our referring community receive care that is truly world-class. Kansas City Canine Orthopedics is proudly located in Shawnee, Kansas, a key part of the larger Kansas City metropolitan area. When you choose to relocate or commute here, you are joining a vibrant community that we proudly serve, extending into Overland Park, Lenexa, Leawood, and beyond. Shawnee offers excellent access to the many amenities, professional sports, and cultural opportunities found in the Midwest. This location provides the perfect blend of small-town community feel with the professional scope and high standard of living offered by a major metropolitan region, ensuring a desirable balance between your challenging, rewarding career and your personal life.

Kansas City Canine Orthopedics is seeking a fifth orthopedic surgeon for this subspecialty orthopedic surgical practice.

There are numerous reasons including:

• It's fun to work in our highly efficient, focused practice and we have good case flow
• We concentrate entirely on orthopedics, it provides the opportunity for repetition improvement of surgical skills, greater consistency, and job satisfaction
• Work-life balance with no soft tissue duties, no on-call, no evenings, and no weekends and flexibility in your schedule
• Kansas City is a progressive Midwest city with great cultural attractions and top-rated suburbs in the entire country for best places to live and raise a family.

We are exclusively focused on orthopedics and sports medicine. We do arthroscopy several times every day, minimally invasive and open fracture repair, osteochondral allograft joint resurfacing, allograft tendon reconstruction and repair, synthetic joint resurfacing and commercial total hip replacement, and arthrodeses.

We also perform TPLO, CCWO, CBLO, TPLOs + internal brace, Tightropes, meniscal repair, MPL, DFO, DPO, FHO, humeral osteotomy for medial compartment disease, and complex deformity correction. Lastly, we conduct industry-sponsored clinical research with a long history of extra-mural research funding, publication, and teaching.

We have a great team that includes 4 board-certified surgeons, one of whom is an ACVS Founding Fellow in Minimally Invasive Surgery and is also boarded by the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation.

We have extensive experience teaching/training, performing research, and publication/presentation and also have two research fellows/surgical interns (DVMs) that perform research, scrub into surgery, and supports the surgeons with patient care.

We have an additional supporting DVM that assists surgeons and staff. We have five veterinary technicians, two dedicated sterilization/pack room personnel, assistants, receptionists, and a great network of local veterinarians. We are considering adding an additional diplomate of ACVSMR.

Our new hospital was designed specifically for orthopedic surgery and was completed in 2022 and then expanded in 2026. We have three operating rooms (two doubles), intra-operative imaging for minimally invasive fracture repair and to check implant placement such as with total hip replacement, and we have 3 arthroscopy towers (one for each OR).

Over 10 arthroscopes including two 1.9s, 2.3, 2.5, six 2.7 shorts, 2.7 long, the Arthrex Nanoscope, and all associated arthroscopic instrumentation, cameras, and positioners. We have bone plating systems including VetKiss, VOI, and Arthrex Ortholine and our TPLO systems include both VOI and Arthrex TPLO systems. We do Kyon (Zurich) THRs. We have the skill set to do Arthrex CUEs and have SynACART instrumentation.

Both circular and linear IMEX ESF instrumentation. We are installing a new (not refurbished) Fuji Supria CT and we use open-source software to assess deformities and perform virtual surgical planning. We can also design guides but if you'd rather send the CT out for a guide and custom implant creation that is also easy to do. We don't have a 3D printer in house at the moment but we have performed 3D printing previously, have that expertise, and so we can add that for the motivated surgeon (or we will make that priority of our next research fellow).

We also have centrifuges and equipment for preparation, aliquoting and appropriate storage of, and activation of platelet-rich plasma, bone marrow aspirate, BMP, and we do also perform other biologic treatments such as cultured stem cell applications. We have a GaitIV pressure sensitive walkway that we use for research and clinical patients to assist with diagnosis or document their progress. We have extra corporeal shockwave and will add ultrasound if we add a diplomate of ACVSMR.

Board-certified in surgery, or at least have completed residency training and are in pursuit of board-certification.

Proficient in arthroscopy, but we are also interested in applicants that are committed to becoming proficient in arthroscopy.

Perform TPLO, MPL correction, FHO, and fracture repair. Additional skills beyond this are desirable, but can be developed.

The chosen surgeon can be full time or part time with numerous potential schedules available, including ranging from 2-5 days per week, but the standard schedule is currently 4 days per week. There is no soft tissue surgery to be performed, no evening or weekend duty and no on-call. The position provides the opportunity to be involved in research if you want, but that is not required.

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