We invite you to explore the biographies of our VCA Shoreline Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center veterinarians and staff and learn more about them. Our hospital's team of doctors and staff are compassionate and highly trained veterinary professionals and specialists who are ready to assist you and your pet whenever a health concern presents itself. As you will see in our biography section, our staff has a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, but, above all, a love of animals and providing the very best care for them.
Dr. Heather Galano is a board-certified veterinary neurologist, medical director, and internship director at VCA Shoreline. Her specialty training spans neurology and neurosurgery.
She earned her veterinary degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, then completed a rotating internship in small animal medicine at the University of Georgia and a fellowship at the Veterinary Neurological Center in Phoenix. In 2005, she completed her residency in neurology and neurosurgery at North Carolina State University.
Dr. Galano spent two years in a California private practice alongside three fellow neurologists befor...