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Toshitsugu Ishihara, BVetMed, MS, DACVAA

Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Anesthesiology
Headshot of Toshitsugu Ishihara.
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
205 Duck Pond Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061

MS, Biomedical Sciences, 2024
Auburn University
Auburn, AL

BVetMed, 2012
Tottori University
Tottori, Japan

  • American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2025

2024-present
Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

2021–2024
Resident, Comparative Anesthesiology
Auburn University
Auburn, AL

2017–2021
Assistant Director

Higashida Veterinary Clinic
Osaka, Japan

2020–2021
Staff Veterinarian
Kyoto Animal Emergency Center
Kyoto, Japan

2014–2016
Staff Veterinarian

Hokusetsu Emergency Animal Hospital
Osaka, Japan

2012–2017
Staff Veterinarian
Higashida Veterinary Clinic
Osaka, Japan

  • Anesthesia and Analgesia
  • Transnational research
  • Laboratory animal medicine
  • Animal welfare