SHAUNA CANTWELL, DVM, MVSc, CVA, CVSMT, CAVCA, DACVA
Anesthesia & Pain Management

Dr. Shauna Cantwell is a veterinarian with a wide and comprehensive medical and animal background.  She began mixed animal practice in 1989, and also practiced in small animal and emergency clinics for many years in  Canada.  She later specialized in veterinary anesthesiology with a special interest in pain management while gaining a master’s degree, and was on faculty at the University of Florida for ten years.

Through that time, Dr. Cantwell became certified in veterinary acupuncture and chiropractic.  She has been studying functional neurology in body systems and applies it to her patients through Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine, chiropractic, postural rehabilitation and other alternative therapies.  She currently divides her time between acupuncture research at the University of Florida, teaching chiropractic and pain management to veterinarians, teaching acupuncture at the Chi Institute of TCVM, and in complementary and alternative medicine practice for horses and dogs (and cats).

She is on the Research committee for the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, the accreditation commission for the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association, the advisory board for the American Journal of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine, and has served on multiple educational committees at the university.   She has written articles on pain management including Equine Analgesia, a chapter in Equine Surgery veterinary textbook, and Ancillary and Alternative Pain Management for Small Animals in the BSAVA textbook of veterinary anesthesiology.     

Besides anesthesiology consultation, her practice encompasses sports medicine for the elite athlete, injury and neurologic therapy, and holistic medicine for illness and wellbeing.  Her career goal is to create a new and more expansive veterinary medicine and to demonstrate how alternative medicine can be integrated with conventional medicine to improve the wellbeing of individual animals.