Carl Toborowsky, VMD, MA, MS, DACVIM

Dr. Toborowsky grew up in Philadelphia and attended Washington University in St. Louis for his undergraduate degree in East Asian studies. After graduation, Dr. Toborowsky worked as a zookeeper at the St. Louis Zoo for two years and fell in love with primate social systems and behavior.
Dr. Toborowsky completed a graduate degree in ecology, evolution, and systematics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. While earning a master’s in biological anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Toborowsky lived on and off in Madagascar for six years and completed graduate theses on the behavior, ecology, and olfactory communica­tion of wild lemurs.
Dr. Toborowsky took some time off after graduate school to work as a tour guide and trip leader for an active travel company, leading biking and hiking trips all over the world for four years. After graduating from veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Toborowsky completed a small animal rotating internship at Friendship Hospital for Animals in Washington, D.C., and a cardiology specialty internship at BluePearl in Southfield, Mich. Dr. Toborowsky did a cardiology residency at the University of Georgia and worked as a staff cardiologist at a large non-profit hospital in New York City before joining the incredible cardiology team at University of Illinois.