Dr Sam Long  BVSc, MVM, PhD, DipECVN, MRCVS

Specialist in Veterinary Neurology

Sam Long graduated from Melbourne University and then completed a residency in neurology together with a PhD at the University of Glasgow vet school, before becoming a boarded neurologist.  In 2005 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania where he became head of the neurology service there.  He then returned to Melbourne in 2008 to start a neurology service at the University of Melbourne where he lectured and established a residency programme as well as training residents.  In 2017 he then made the leap to private practice, working initially at the Centre of Animal Referral and Emergency before joining the Veterinary Referral Hospital in 2020 where he works alongside another boarded neurologist, a neurology registrar and 2 residents in training.  He has established research links with researchers at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne and at RMIT, and continues to have a research interest in epilepsy and the diagnosis and treatment of canine brain tumours.