DR. David E. Lashley, D.V.M. - BELLEVILLE, IL

Dr. David E. Lashley, D.V.M. has owned and operated a successful veterinary practice, Lashley Animal Hospital, in the Metro East for more than 45 years focusing on preventative, wellness, and surgical care for dogs and cats as well as the diagnosis, treatment, and cure of sick animals. He is frequently nominated as one of the area?s top veterinarians, including repeat nominations as one of the Top 3 Veterinarians in the Belleville News Democrat?s Readers Choice Awards.

Dr. Lashley is a 1967 graduate of the University of Illinois, College of Veterinary Medicine where he was one of the first veterinarians in the United States to learn and perform a Femoral Head Ostectomy ? a surgical procedure that removes the femoral head and neck from the femur to alleviate hip pain ? saving the lives of many large breed dogs who had heretofore been put to sleep when suffering from hip dysplasia.

A native of Belleville, IL, Dr. Lashley has been married to his wife Pamela for 42 years. He is the father of three children; Christopher, Brook, and Sean; and the grandfather to Christopher and wife Elena?s two children, Caitlyn and Braeden. As any good veterinarian knows, a house is not a home without a dog and/or cat, Dr. Lashley is also Dad to ?Paddi,? an Irish Setter, and ?Keleigh,? a domestic house cat, and Granddad to ?Apollo,? an English Cream Retriever belonging to daughter Brook, and Christopher?s Irish Setter, ?Wyndsor,? and cat, ?Solei.?