Dr. Simone Guerios is currently a clinical assistant professor at the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine, where she serves as the service chief and clerkship coordinator for the Veterinary Community Outreach Program (VCOP). VCOP provides valuable synergy between veterinary education and supporting local animal welfare. Veterinary students gain crucial hands-on surgical and medical experience while simultaneously offering services that reduce pet overpopulation, improve shelter animal health, facilitate adoptions, and educate the community on responsible pet ownership.
Before accepting a faculty position at the University of Florida, Dr. Guerios worked as an Associate Clinical Professor in Soft Tissue Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the Federal University of Parana in Brazil. Shelter Medicine became a passion when she began providing veterinary care to dogs and cats in low-income communities in Brazil, later she started a shelter medicine community outreach program and established the first mobile neutering unit in Brazil [citation].