Dr. Tonya E. Brown grew up on the Seacoast in southern Maine and attained her veterinary degree from the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. She completed a competitive small animal rotating internship at The Animal Medical Center in New York City. She then completed a coveted three-year Internal Medicine Residency at North Carolina State University. She passed her exams, had her publication accepted, and became Boarded in Small Animal Internal Medicine. She is honored to be the chair of the NHVMA Continuing Education committee for her 12th year.
Dr. Brown is passionate about diagnosing and managing complicated medical cases in cats and dogs. She specializes in all forms of endocrine disease, including diabetes mellitus, thyroid disease, Cushing's disease, and Addison's disease. She excels at managing patients with complicated multiple disease processes. Her areas of expertise include immune-mediated disease, gastro-intestinal diseases (inflammatory bowel disease), infectious diseases, hepatology, nephrology, and respiratory medicine. She is highly skilled at abdominal ultrasound, non-cardiogenic thoracic ultrasound, and all forms of endoscopy, including foreign body retrieval (gastric, esophageal, tracheal, nasal, urogenital), gastro-intestinal endoscopy, bronchoscopy, rhinoscopy, and cystoscopy. She is proficient at esophagostomy tube placement, joint taps, ultrasound-guided aspiration, and bone marrow sampling [citation].