Dr. Tomas Gimenez was born in Mexico and attended Veterinary School for his MVZ (Médico Veterinario Zootécnista)degree at the National University of Mexico, but spent his summers in Boston and New York City with his grandparents learning English and how much he loved America. After vet school he worked for Syntech with his life-long mentor Dr. Wolfgang Jochle, then got an opportunity to attend the Royal Veterinary College in Sweden as a Fellow for a year. Immediately after, he spent 5 years in Munich, Germany at the Veterinary School and obtained a second veterinary degree (Dr. Med. Vet.) from the University of Munich.
He came to Clemson University to teach surgery, endocrinology subjects and reproduction. His career path took an unusual track in the early 1990's when he attended a conference on large animal rescue in California and began to get interested in disaster and emergency response, especially in teaching large animal rescue subjects. For more information read the LEGACY story...SPOTLIGHT ON A LEADER
     Tomas enjoys riding his horses and working on his farm in Clemson, SC.
     Together with fellow primary TLAER instructor, Rebecca Gimenez he gives training in Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue techniques across the US, using privately owned animals for the hands-on demonstrations. Jointly Rebecca and Tomas (recently divorced) have published numerous critiques, techniques and journal articles on the subject of technical large animal emergency rescue, and they are internationally sought speakers and subject matter experts on these subjects.
Tomas' current curriculum vitae (CV) is available upon request.

Email Tomas @ tlaer@bellsouth.net