Our internal medicine department offers a wide range of services to guide you with the management of cases requiring further investigation.

Dr. Yves Gosselin, is a doctor of Veterinary Medicine, and owner and chief executive officer of the HVRS since 1985. Dr. Gosselin earned his Doctorate in veterinary medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal in 1970. He also holds a small animal internal medicine residency certificate from the University of Illinois, USA, which he earned in 1975.
Upon his return in Québec, Dr. Yves Gosselin began a career at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal, in Saint-Hyacinthe. He was successively: Assistant professor, Director of the small animal hospital, and Associate professor. Dr. Gosselin has also been a member, president or administrator of many committees and associations: President of the Scientific Committee of the Académie de médecine vétérinaire du Québec, Administrator of the Ordre des médecins vétérinaires du Québec, President of the continuing education committee for the Ordre des médecins vétérinaires du Québec, President of the Canadian Association of Dermatology.

He received the Damase-Généreux Award from the Académie de médecine vétérinaire du Québec in 1991 and the Gaines Veterinary Award from the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association in 1985.

Dr. Yves Gosselin regularly contributes to various public or private organizations.

Dr. Manon L'Écuyer, completed her DVM at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal in 1990. She then completed her internship development training in applied veterinary sciences (IPSAV) and a residency in internal medicine (DES) at the same institution.

From late 1993 to 1998, she worked as a lecturer at the Faculty and then made the transition to private practice from 1998-1999 to work at the Centre vétérinaire DMV. Thereafter, she worked as a clinician in internal medicine at the Faculty from 1999 to 2007.

She graduated from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) in 1998. She also holds a specialty certificate in internal medicine from the OMVQ since 1995.

Her fields of interest are feline medicine in all its forms, endocrinology and gastroenterology as well as all aspects of endoscopy. She has worked at the HVRS (Hôpital Vétérinaire Rive-Sud) since July 2007.

Dr. Mylène Taillefer igraduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal in 1999. She then completed a general internship and an internal small animal medicine internship at the Centre vétérinaire DMV. She is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine since 2004.

Her training also includes a Masters degree in veterinary clinical sciences at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal. She worked as a clinician in internal medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal in 2004-2005. She has worked at the HVRS since September 2006.

Dr. Lara Rose was born in Montréal and began her university studies at McGill University in animal biology. Subsequently she completed her DVM at the Université de Montréal.
In 2005-2006, she completed an internship in medicine and surgery for small animals at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island.

Afterward, she did her residency in small animal internal medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal, which she completed in July 2009. She is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medecine since 2011.

She joined the Internal Medicine team at the Hôpital Vétérinaire Rive-Sud in November 2009.

• Digital radiography
• Fluoroscopy
• Esophagogram
• Digestive baryum series
• Excretory urogram
• Urethrocystoscopy
• Double contrast cystography

• Non-congenital cardiac evaluation
• OFA certification

• Ophtalmic surgeries

• Allergy test