Dr. Mark A. Koeppl

Dr. Mark Koeppl Dr. Koeppl is a Wisconsin native and a life long animal person. His parents tell him he was certain, from childhood, of his life's ambition to be a veterinarian; he nurtured a variety of pets and other creatures to prove the point. After undergraduate education in Platteville, he went to vet school at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1984.

He completed an internship in Massachusetts then joined an emergency practice in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1985. While doing that, he also did relief work and provided surgical services for a great number of practices in eastern Massachusetts before returning home to join the Emergency Clinic for Animals in 1988. He has been Chief of Staff and Medical Director since that time, expanding services and advancing the level of medicine practiced.

Dr. Koeppl has been a member of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (VECCS) since its early days (1987) and also is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), a physicians's group devoted to the same concerns of importance to our veterinary patients, including nutrition, pain management, tissue oxygenation and hemostasis. He has attended the annual meetings of each group, as well as other residency level programs.

He remains devoted to providing thorough, detail oriented supportive care, advanced diagnostics and Wisconsin practicality to his patients.

When Dr. Koeppl is not practicing critical care medicine, he relaxes on acerage in SW Wisconsin, where he raises bison and restores native prairies and woodlands. His home menagerie includes many cats, 4 dogs, 2 pigs, a flock of Dominique chickens, a number of ducks, peacocks, Koi, cichlids, and a flock of finches. The prairie restorations are involved in a number of ongoing research projects related to threatened bird species, badgers and other native wildlife; a new study has commenced to assess the feasibility of grasslands in the sustainable production of lignocellulosic biomass origin ethanol.

What little time remains, Dr. Koeppl devotes to his understanding wife (and veterinary technician) Sheryl, mending fences and spending time in the woods. Each spring he builds and refurbishes bluebird houses and actually trans located a chimney to support a colony of chimney swifts that share his home.

In the field of veterinary emergency and critical care, each day, each case and every nuance adds to one's insight. Dr Koeppl has almost 25 years of providing critical, emergency and urgent care. There are few veterinarians in this country with that much experience who choose to passionately practice in the field they love. There is no one else practicing emergency and critical care in Madison with anywhere near this amount of experience. It makes all the difference to the patient and to their devoted owners.

Experience experience !!