{"id":8370,"date":"2026-03-18T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/?page_id=8370"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:36:34","slug":"new-faculty-spotlight-aki-otomo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/new-faculty-spotlight-aki-otomo\/","title":{"rendered":"New Faculty Spotlight: Aki Otomo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8371\" src=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/akiotoma4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Aki Otomo in scrubs in surgical suite\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/akiotoma4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/akiotoma4-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/akiotoma4-1024x883.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/akiotoma4-768x663.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/akiotoma4-1536x1325.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/akiotoma4-2048x1767.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Aki Otomo<br \/>\n<\/strong>Clinical Assistant Professor<br \/>\n<em>Small Animal Surgery<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Education <\/strong><br \/>\nDVM, St. George\u2019s University with clinical rotations completed at Oregon State University<br \/>\nBS &amp; BA, Simon Fraser University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Past Experience<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter graduation, Dr. Otomo completed two internships including a companion animal rotating internship at Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph and a small animal surgery internship at VCA Animal Specialty &amp; Emergency Center in Los Angeles. She completed a small animal surgery residency at Louisiana State University followed by a surgical oncology fellowship at Colorado State University\u2019s Flint Animal Cancer Center. From 2023 to 2025, Dr. Otomo was a private practice surgical oncologist at Care Center Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specialty Area<br \/>\n<\/strong>Small animal soft tissue surgery with a focus on surgical oncology. \u201cI have seen how prevalent cancer is in dogs and cats and how devastating the diagnosis can be for pet parents. This led me to become particularly passionate about oncology and I am deeply interested and dedicated to optimizing patient outcome and quality of life for patients. I truly believe a multimodal and a collaborative integrated model in veterinary oncology leads to better patient outcomes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interesting Fact<br \/>\n<\/strong>In addition to her undergraduate degree in animal biology, Dr. Otomo earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in English literature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Otomo says\u2026<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cMy favorite part of being a small animal surgeon is seeing pet parents reunited with their pet on discharge from a challenging surgical procedure. Their pet is typically so happy and overjoyed to be back with their family and I can see how grateful pet parents are. Helping pet parents navigate a challenging and emotionally distressing medical journey with their pets and making a tangible difference and impact in patient care and outcome so pets can continue to have a good quality of life for as long as possible is very rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>March 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"site_sections":["VETMED"]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Faculty Spotlight: Aki Otomo - News Articles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/new-faculty-spotlight-aki-otomo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Faculty Spotlight: Aki Otomo - 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