Dr. Jean Huang is a veterinarian with Animal Care Center of Green Valley who treats canine and feline patients and has a special interest in internal medicine and pets with difficult to diagnose illnesses. She says, “It’s like trying to figure out a puzzle – a 12-sided Rubik’s cube!” Animal Care Center of Green Valley stresses early disease detection, preventive care, and pet quality of life through its eight practice teams: Active Pets & Joint Heath, Early Detection & High Risk, Geriatrics & Arthritis, Allergies & Dermatology, Nutrition, Chronic Conditions, Dentistry & Oral Health, and End-of-Life & Hospice.
Pet quality of life is most on her mind when she treats pets. She focuses on pain management and the implementation of Fear Free practices. Making sure pain and stress are minimized before, during, and following procedures, and throughout their lifetimes, is essential to each pet’s recovery, health, well-being, and quality of life.
Dr. Huang moved to Arizona to join Animal Care Center of Green Valley after working at veterinary hospitals in northern California. She says she easily gets cold so the desert climate suits her just fine. Originally, she wanted to be a human medical doctor, but she switched to veterinary medicine due to her love of animals. She is fascinated by medicine and the complexity and constant growth and change of all living beings.
Dr. Huang was born in Taiwan and has lived in Georgia, California, New York, and Germany. Living in different countries has made her more open-minded to other cultures and traditions. She has two cats and one dog: Cody, a sweet elderly grey tabby; Cleo, a goofy and sometimes clumsy Maine Coon; and BeBe, a lovable Pekingese she adopted from a former client at Animal Care Center. In her spare time, Dr. Huang enjoys activities like shooting, hiking, reading thrillers and romance novels, and lecturing at Mass. She loves photography, the outdoors of the lower Sonoran Desert, and exploring new places with her husband, Nirmal.
“Animals don’t live as long as people because it doesn’t take them as long to learn how to live right.” [citation]