Dr. Curtin

Dr. Dave Curtin is a native of Southern California and a graduate of the School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis. Dave earned a Hart academic scholarship every year while attending vet school as well as membership in the Phi Zeta Honor Society. He graduated from UC Davis in 1976 in the top ten percent of his class.

Dr. Curtin has enjoyed life in coastal Orange County ever since, practicing most of those thirty-plus years at his own veterinary clinic in Newport Beach. He is a longtime member of the Southern California Veterinary Medical Association, and his many years on the Committee for Grievances and Ethics were honored with a Meritorious Service Award.

Dave values the years- and even decades-long relationships that small animal general practice allows. “As family veterinarians, we see the young and the old, in sickness and in health, and we share the love people and their pets have for each other and the memories that endure even after death does them part. We are given the opportunity to become trusted family friends and advisors, but true friendship and trust can only be earned over time.”

“I appreciate the many and varied satisfactions of a veterinary career,” says Dr. Curtin. “I took a sabbatical from practice so that I might help my father in his battle with heart disease, and I will be forever grateful that the biomedical training that my parents helped me achieve proved instrumental in finding the best treatments available for my dad, treatments that added almost two years to the treasured time we had with him.”

“I find the stimulating environment of a high quality multi-doctor veterinary practice to be invigorating, and Eddie and Pam Cole have created one of the finest veterinary organizations I’ve ever seen. Every aspect of IVS from top to bottom- the facilities, the equipment, the employees- illustrates their dedicated commitment to excellence. Their core values resonate through every detail to ensure that pets and their owners receive the best possible care. The IVS team members want to give their best today, and to give even better tomorrow. I’m honored to be a part of that.”