Dr. Farabaugh is originally from New Jersey where he received an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1991. Following a short career in juvenile justice in Washington State, he returned to Rutgers University in 1999 and completed a degree in Animal Science in 2001. He then went on to graduate with a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine in 2005. After graduation from Tufts, he completed a one-year small animal medicine and surgery rotating internship, followed by a three-year medical and surgical neurology residency at Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston. He remained at Angell as a staff neurologist until moving to Southern New Hampshire Veterinary Referral Hospital in 2012. This was followed by a position at Oradell Animal Hospital in New Jersey in 2014, where he remained on staff until joining the VCA South Shore team in 2019. 
 
Dr. Farabaugh is board certified through the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in the specialty of Neurology. His professional interests include auto-immune diseases of the central nervous system and surgical techniques for stabilization and reconstruction of the spine and skull using 3-D printing of surgical models and templates.