Dr. Carlos Hodges graduated from Tuskegee University, School of Veterinary Medicine in 1985; he completed both a one year rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery and a one-year fellowship in surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.  The next four years he spent in a surgical residency program at Texas A & M University, College of Veterinary Medicine.  In 1990, he accepted an appointment as the Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopedics at the teaching hospital of the Texas Veterinary Medical Center at Texas A & M University. He became the founder of VCVRC in 1996.