Dr. Douglas Novick provides mobile veterinary care, emergency care and pre-purchase examinations for horses throughout Silicon Valley and surrounding areas including south Santa Clara county, the Peninsula and the East Bay. His special interests are equine sports medicine, equine dentistry and equine reproduction. Dr. Novick’s patients range from back yard pets to highly competitive show horses, endurance horses and western performance and reining horses. He also will treat goats and sheep and vaccinate horse owner’s dogs and cats as well. In addition he as consulted as an equine legal expert in matters related to equine veterinary care and horsemanship. An experienced horseman of over 40 years, Dr. Novick now competes as an amateur in the jumper divisions. As a competitor he earned multiple honors including Year-end Amateur Owner Champion of the Northern California Hunter Jumper Association in 2006 and 2015. He is also a two time division champion of High Junior/ Amateur Owner Jumpers at the Menlo Charity Horse Show . He has treated horses in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1988. Prior to that time he treated racehorses and performance horses while on staff at the New Jersey Equine Clinic, a six-veterinarian racetrack and surgical referral practice. Dr. Novick is a graduate of Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina where he was graduated with honors, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cm laude. Dr. Novick is a columnist, writing articles in newsletters related to horse care for the Los Altos Hills Horsemen’s Association, the San Mateo County Horsemen’s Association, and the California Gymkanna Association. His articles have also appeared in the California Horse Review, and the American Endurance Rider’s national magazine, Endurance News. He has served as an expert on equine sports medicine for the San Jose Mercury News and KNBR radio. Dr. Novick has been featured for his work, in preventing horse theft by implanting Identification Microchips, in numerous publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, Horse Illustrated, Horse Show Magazine and the Quarter Horse Journal. His primary practice area includes Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda Counties.
