VCA Veterinary Specialists of the Valley (VSV) offers specialized care in the following disciplines: Emergency and Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Oncology and Surgery. We work to ensure that every patient receives the highest quality and most comprehensive veterinary care possible. Our specialty departments are staffed by caring specialists with years of advanced training and experience, veterinarians, technicians and support staff. Each individual is dedicated to one mission — helping your pet become well again.
We invite you to explore the biographies of our VSV veterinarians and staff to learn more about them. Our hospital's team of doctors and staff are highly-trained and experienced veterinary professionals, who are ready to assist you and your pet whenever a health problem arises. As you will see in our biography section, our staff has a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, but above all, they are all dedicated veterinary professionals who share a genuine love of animals and a desire to provide the very best care for them. As pet owners ourselves, we understand how difficult it is when a pet becomes ill. It’s our mission to help in every way possible with expertise and compassion. Please don’t hesitate to call upon us whenever we can be of assistance to you and your pet.
Team Spotlight
Dr. John D. Chretin obtained his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1994 from Colorado State University. He completed a small animal internship at North Carolina State University and then went on to receive board certification in the specialty of medical oncology after a three-year residency at Tufts University.
Dr. Chretin was born in Arizona and moved to Los Angeles in 2002. It is here where he met his wife and has become father to four children, with an additional child on the way. He served as Head of Oncology at VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital where in 2010 he established a bone marrow transplant p...
