VCA Advanced Veterinary Care Center offers a full complement of specialty services in virtually all veterinary disciplines, including Diagnostic Imaging, Emergency Care, Integrative Medicine, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, and Radiology, ensuring that every patient receives the highest quality and most comprehensive veterinary care available anywhere. Our specialty departments are staffed by caring specialists with years of advanced training and experience, and they are all dedicated to one thing -- helping your pet become well again.
We invite you to explore the biographies of our VCA Advanced Veterinary Care Center veterinarians and staff and 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. Hsiao-Hui (Joyce) Wang is an enthusiastic veterinarian who obtained her DVM degree in Taiwan where she sparked a strong interest in veterinary ophthalmology. After graduation, she obtained the certificate in advanced small animal medicine and surgery training in Taiwan in 2007. She fulfilled the requirement of the Assessment of Veterinary Education Equivalence (PAVE) at Colorado State University in 2011 and earned a Master of Science degree in veterinary ophthalmology in 2013. She finished her small animal rotating internship at VCA Veterinary Referral Associates in 2015 and completed the residency training ...
Rich is a native Los Angelino that grew up in the South Bay and attended Santa Monica College and UCLA. He began his veterinary career while in college starting at VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital in 1996 where he worked in all specialties fine tuning his technical skills within the departments. At VCA WLAAH, Rich assumed many roles as an RVT from ER, ICU, and surgery technician through being technician supervisor and manager. In 2015 he became hospital administrator at Veterinary Medical and Surgical Group in Ventura and returned in early 2017 to the VCA family as part of the leadership team for both TLC An...
