Speakers & Topics
INTERNAL MEDICINE & ONCOLOGY
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Dr. Stacy Binstock, DVM
Dr. Harry Cridge, DVM
Dr. Stacy Santoro Binstock is a board-certified medical oncologist with over 15 years of experience in clinical practice. She was born and raised in New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey. After college, Dr. Binstock attended veterinary school at Iowa State University and graduated in 2002. Dr. Binstock’s medical oncology residency began at Kansas State University and was completed at the University of Wisconsin in 2006. She is the owner and founder of Lotus Pet Oncology, a virtual oncology consulting service for pet owners and general practice veterinarians. Dr. Binstock sees patients in person at two veterinary specialty hospitals in the Philadelphia metro area.
Dr. Binstock’s special interests include oral tumors, minimal invasive diagnostics, advanced imaging for cancer patients, and customized care for individual patients based on their specific situation. She approaches each case with honesty, care, compassion, and is committed to providing excellent quality of life for her patients. She provides an individualized, personal approach her patients, with the ultimate goal being to help pets live their best life despite a cancer diagnosis. Dr. Binstock welcomes collaboration with primary care veterinarians forming a comprehensive, unified care team for every patient and client. In her spare time, Dr. Binstock enjoys riding horses, mixing cocktails, baking, and spending time with her husband and two children. She has a dog who is a sweet, snuggly couch potato and 2 cats who plot to steal food every waking minute of the day.
Dr. Harry Cridge is a dual American (ACVIM) and European (ECVIM) board-certified specialist in small animal internal medicine. He graduated from University College Dublin with a bachelor's degree in veterinary medicine before moving to the United States to complete a rotating internship and residency in small animal internal medicine at Mississippi State University, where he also earned a Master of Science degree focused on hematology and immunology.
Dr. Cridge’s current clinical and research interests focus on gastroenterology and disorders of the exocrine pancreas. Indeed, he is one of only a handful of veterinarians recognized by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons as a Specialist in Small Animal Medicine (Gastroenterology). A subject matter expert on pancreatitis and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI), he routinely lectures internationally and publishes extensively in these areas. He also serves as senior editor of an upcoming textbook focusing on disorders of the liver, exocrine pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract in dogs and cats.
He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine.