Serge Chalhoub

Biography

Serge Chalhoub graduated from Bishop’s with a BSc. (Honours) in Biology in 1999. He then enrolled in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program at the Faculté de médecine vétérinaire (FMV) of the Université de Montréal and completed the 5-year program in 2004. Serge followed this with a one-year rotating small animal clinical internship at the same institution. 

After working for two years as a general practitioner and emergency veterinarian in Montreal, Serge pursued a residency in small animal internal medicine at the Animal Medical Center (AMC) in New York City. Once his residency completed in 2009 he stayed on at the AMC as their first renal/hemodialysis fellow and then as a staff doctor. 

Dr. Chalhoub has been a faculty member at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) since 2012 and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor (Teaching). He was the recipient of the 2021 and 2013 Canadian Veterinary Medical Association’s Teacher of the Year Award, the 2015 University of Calgary Team Teacher of the Year Award, and the 2017 Carl J. Norden Distinguished Teacher Award (considered the most prestigious teaching award for a veterinary faculty member in North America). Serge is the coordinator of a community outreach-service learning program (UCVM-CUPS Pet Health Clinic) for disadvantaged Calgarians. He has authored and co-authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on veterinary point of care ultrasound, renal and urinary medicine, and lectures around the world on these topics. He is a member of the National Issues Committee (NIC) of the CVMA and a Council Member for the Alberta Veterinary Medical Association.

Publications

Books

Boysen S, Gommeren K, Chalhoub S. The Essentials of Veterinary Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Pleural Space and Lung.  Zaragoza Spain; Groupo Asis Biomedia (2022).

Refereed Papers

Taylor S, Chan DL, Villaverde C, Ryan L, Peron F, Quimby J, O’Brien C, Chalhoub S. ISFM Consensus guidelines on management of the inappetent hospitalised cat. J Feline Med Surg 2022; 24 (7): 614-640.

Van Patten KM, Chalhoub S, Baker T, Rock M, Adams C. What do veterinary students value about service learning? Insights from subsidized clinics in an urban environment. J Vet Med Educ 2021;48(4):477-484.

Boysen S, Chalhoub S, Menard J. Point-of-care ultrasound 1: what can veterinary nurses do? Feline Focus ICatCare (ISFM) 2021 7(10): 275-285.

Boysen S, Chalhoub S, Menard J. Point-of-care ultrasound 2: pleural space and lung ultrasound. Feline Focus ICatCare (ISFM) 2021 7(11): 309-319.

Boysen S, Chalhoub S, Menard J. Point-of-care ultrasound 3: ultrasound-guided procedures. Feline Focus ICatCare (ISFM) 2021 7(12): 343-355.

Pelchat J, Boysen S, Chalhoub S. The use of veterinary point of care ultrasound by veterinarians: a nationwide Canadian survey. Can Vet J  2020;61(12):1278-1282

Darnis E, Boysen S, Merveille AC, Desquilbet L, Chalhoub S, Gommeren K. Establishment of reference values of the caudal vena cava by fast-ultrasonography through different views in healthy dogs. J Vet Intern Med 2018;32(4):1308-1318.

Goldsmith DA, Oetelaar GS, Chalhoub S, Klein C, Bramer SA, Locke EP, Massolo A. Pathology in practice: Canine alveolar echinococcosis. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2018;253(5):563-565.

Lee A, Boysen S, Wagg C, DVM, Sanderson J, Chalhoub S. Effects of Yunnan Baiyao on blood coagulation parameters in beagles measured using kaolin activated thromboelastography and more traditional methods. IJVSM 2017; 5 (1); 53-56.

Langston C, Cook A, Eatroff A, Mitelberg E, Chalhoub S. Blood Transfusions in Dogs and Cats Receiving Hemodialysis:  230 cases (June 1997-September 2012). J Vet Intern Med 2017 Mar-Apr;31(2): 402-409.

Frederick J, Boysen S, Wagg C, Chalhoub S. The effects of oral Yunnan Baiyao on blood coagulation in beagles measured using kaolin-activated thromboelastography and buccal mucosal bleeding times. Can Vet J Res 2017; 81(1); 41-45.

Sparkes AH, Caney S, Chalhoub S, Elliott J, Finch N, Gajanayake I, Langston C, Lefebvre HP, White J, Quimby J. ISFM Consensus guidelines on the diagnosis and management of feline chronic kidney disease. J Feline Med Surg 2016 Mar; 18 (3): 219-39.

McMurray J, Boysen SR, Chalhoub S. Focused assessment with sonography for triage in non-trauma dogs and cats in the emergency and critical care setting. J Vet Emerg Crit Car 2016, Jan-Feb; (1): 64-73.

Chalhoub S, Langston C. Anaemia of renal disease: pathophysiology and treatment updates. Companion Animal. 2015, 20 (8); 448-452.

Engbers S, Boysen SR, Engbers, J, Chalhoub S. A comparison of tissue oxygen saturation measurements by two different near-infrared spectroscopy monitors in 21 healthy dogs. J Vet Emerg Crit Car 2014, 24(5); 536-544.

Di Cicco M, Fetzer T, Secoura P, Jermyn K, Hill T, Chalhoub S, Vaden, S. Management of bilateral idiopathic renal hematuria in a dog with silver nitrate. Can Vet J August 2013; 761-765.

Guinan J, Garate AP, Fischetti AJ, Chalhoub S. Primary aortic hemangioscarcoma in a dog. Can Vet J 2012 Nov;53(11):1214-8.

Eatroff A, Langston C, Chalhoub S, Poeppel K, Mitelberg E. Long term outcome of cats and dogs with acute kidney injury treated with intermittent hemodialysis: 135 cases (1997-2010) J Am Vet Med Assoc 2012; 241:1471-1478.

Chalhoub S, Langston C, Farrelly J. The use of darbepoetin to stimulate erythropoiesis in anemia of chronic kidney disease in cats: 25 cases. J Vet Intern Med 2012; 23(2): 363-369.

Chalhoub S, Langston C, Eatroff A. Anemia of renal disease: what it is, what to do, and what’s new. J Feline Med Surg 2011; 13(9): 629-640.

Chalhoub S, Langston C. Managing anemia in patients with CKD. Veterinary Medicine 2011; 106 (5): 236-241.

Chalhoub S, Langston C, Poeppel K. Vascular access for extracorporeal renal replacement therapy in veterinary patients. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice 2011; 41(1): 147-161

Poeppel K, Langston C, Chalhoub S. Equipment commonly used in veterinary renal replacement therapy. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice 2011; 41(1): 177-191.

Langston C, Chalhoub S. Dealing with kidney disease in pets. HealthyPet Magazine, summer 2010: p.20-24.

Chalhoub S, Pinard C. Feline Diffused Iris Melanoma. Méd Vét du Québec 2005; 35: 127-130.

Submitted Abstracts

Rock M, Baker T, Chalhoub S, Van Patten K, Adams CL. 2022. Exploring moral distress amongst veterinarians who care for poor people and their pets in multi-species communities. Presented at “Constructing and Contesting Veterinary Expertise: Professionals, Publics, and Prospects,” an online conference convened at the University of Nottingham by P. Hobson-West, A. Anderson, and K. Millar, with sponsorship from the British Academy and the Wellcome Trust, 5-7 July 2022.

Patterson M, Boysen S, Whiteside D, Chalhoub S. Establishing veterinary point of care ultrasound protocols in a non-domestic small carnivore – The slender tailored meerkat. Abstract accepted as an oral presentation and poster to 19th annual EVECC Congress held in June 2020.

Darnis E, Merveille AC, Desquilbet L, Chalhoub S, Boysen S, Gommeren K. Establishment of the caudal vena cava reference values in healthy dogs through the hepatic, kidney, and diaphragmatic views by FAST-ultrasonography. Abstract presented and accepted at EVECC 2017.

Read E, Chalhoub S, Whiteside S, Vallevand A, Thundathil J. Steps for establishing a Minimum Performance Level (MPL) for computer-based Virtual Animal Patient assignments. Abstract accepted and presented at INVEST Conference 2014.

Published Contributions to a Collective Work and Book Chapters

Chalhoub S, Palma D. (Expected 2022). “Systemic Hypertension”. In Ettinger, Feldman, Cote (ed) Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 9th Ed. Elsevier.

Boysen SR, Chalhoub S. (2021). “Point of care abdominal sonography”. In Tilley LP and Smith FKW (ed) Five-Minute Veterinary Consult. 7th Ed. Wiley Blackwell.

Boysen SR, Chalhoub S. (2021). “Point of care pleural space and lung sonography” In Tilley LP and Smith FKW (ed) Five-Minute Veterinary Consult. 7th Ed. Wiley Blackwell.

Chalhoub S. (2020). “Prostatic diseases”. In Bruyette D (ed) Clinical Small Animal Internal Medicine, 1st Edition. Wiley-Blackwell: Chapter 124.

Chalhoub S, Boysen SR. (2020). “FAST ultrasound exams”. In Cote E (ed) Clinical Veterinary Advisor: Dogs & Cats. 3rd Ed. Elsevier: pp. 1102-1105.

Chalhoub S, Palma D. (2017). “Systemic Hypertension: pathophysiology and clinical manifestations.” In Ettinger, Feldman, Cote (ed) Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 8th Ed. Elsevier: pp 659-665.

Chalhoub S, Boysen SR. (2014). “Abdominal and Thoracic Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma, Triage, and Tracking”. In Cote E (ed) Clinical Veterinary Advisor: Dogs & Cats. 3rd Ed. Elsevier: pp. 1160-1161.

Langston C, Poeppel K, Chalhoub S. (2012). “Dialyzing cats”. In Ing T (ed) Dialysis: History, development and promise. 1st Ed. World Scientific: pp. 945-950.

Langston C, Chalhoub S. (2012). “Pathophysiology of Renal Disease”. In Monnet E (ed) Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery. 1st Ed. Wiley Blackwell: pp 507-520. (revised chapter due this year)

Posters

Archer RM, Donszelman D, Chalhoub S. Effect of review and repetition on performance of a physical exam task in a veterinary first year Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Presented at Veterinary Educator Collaborative in Calgary 2016.