Liubov Sandzhieva,
DVM
Dr. Sandzhieva grew up in Kalmykia, Russia. She graduated veterinary school Cum Laude from the Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology in 2009. After graduation, she received advanced Emergency and Critical Care training at a multi-specialty hospital in Moscow Belyi Klyk, Russia, where she stayed as a senior clinician until she moved to the United States in 2016. While working, Dr. Sandzhieva also provided training to multiple interns and externs. After completing internships, she worked as an Emergency and Critical Care clinician in several referral specialty hospitals in South Florida before joining the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center in 2024. Dr. Sandzhieva loves all aspects of internal medicine, with a special interest in hematology and coagulation. She devotes her free time to tennis (playing, traveling to new tournaments, and watching). She shares a home with Don Sphynx, a cat named Izum, which means Raisin in Russian.
Education:
- Combined Internal Medicine and Emergency and Critical Care Specialty Internship | Coral Springs Animal Hospital, Coral Springs, FL
- Small Animal Rotating Internship | North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
- DVM | Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology, Moscow, Russia
Recent Publications:
H Kuder, L Sandzhieva-Vuzzo, A Kehl, JM. Rappaport, E Müller, and Urs Giger A Single Base Insertion in F9 Causing Hemophilia B in a Family of Newfoundland–Parti Standard Poodle Hybrid Dogs. Genes 2021,12, 1491. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12101491
H. Kuder; A. Kehl; L. Sandzhieva-Vuzzo; J. M. Rappaport; E. Müller; U. Giger A F9 Frameshift Variant Associated with Hemophilia B in a Family of Newfoundland Dogs: From Clinics to Molecular Defect. Austrian vet congress in (Virtual) Salzburg August 2021
Sandzhieva L, Birkenheuer AJ, MotsingerReif AA, et al. Analytical variation in activated partial thromboplastin time using a point of care monitor. Oral presentation at 21st Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Symposium; Nashville, TN. JVECC 2017 Sep; 27 (S1): p.S2-S15.
Sandzhieva L, Istomina T, Low frequency piezothromboelastography (LF-TEG) as a method to evaluate hemostasis in healthy cats; a pilot study, JVECC 2015 Sep; 25 (S1): p.S21-S23. Poster presented at 14th European Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society Congress 2015, Lyon, France. Best Poster Presentation Award.