Carolina Equine Clinic, Southern Pines, NC

   
Fred B McCashin
VMD, M.Sc.
FEI Veterinarian


equine veterinarian - Dr. Fred B. McCashin, VMD, M.Sc. Fred B McCashin was raised on a farm where his parents bought, trained and sold horses. He helped break, train and ride horses intended for competition in show jumping, hunters eventers and steeplechasers. He was active in the US Pony Club and fox hunting.
College undergraduate degree (BA) was received at Amherst College, His VMD was granted by the University of Pennsylvania, and his postdoctoral MSc at The Ohio State University. He was an Assistant Professor at the NYS Veterinary College at Cornell before moving to North Carolina.

In Southern Pines he was the Director-Surgeon of the North Carolina Veterinary Research Foundation which is now a facility owned by the NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Since 1977 he has been in private practice in Southern Pines and is the owner of the Carolina Equine Clinic. He is an Adjunct Professor at NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr McCashin does mostly referral work on horses in cooperation with other practices in NC and surrounding states.  As an event veterinarian for the Federation Equestre Internationale since 1987, he officiates at international events in the disciplines of Jumping, Eventing and Dressage.

He continues to ride horses, flies an airplane, snow skis, play golf, hunt and sail as time permits.
 

Maria DiGiovanni
DVM
 
Maria has been around horses almost her entire life. She worked as an instructor with the 4H Horse Club Handicapped Riders Program while in high school. This allowed her to work off her riding lessons. Before and during her college years she was also a Co-Manager for a summer horsemanship camp for girls in New Hampshire.

Maria received her undergraduate degree in 1990 from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and went on to receive her D.V.M. in 1994 from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, N.Y.   She completed an internship at Manor Equine Hospital, a full-service equine ambulatory and surgical referral practice in Monkton, MD where she was responsible for medical and surgical clinical case care, ambulatory and emergency services, and anesthesia induction, maintenance and recovery. She then went to work for a practice in Clifton VA, where she continued to provide ambulatory farm calls and emergency services.

Maria moved to the Southern Pines area in 2001 when she and her husband were assigned to Fort Bragg, N.C. Maria’s husband, David Casey, was an orthopedic surgeon for the Army until their military obligation was fulfilled in 2005. They both enjoyed living in Southern Pines so much that they decided to make this their permanent home, and after a brief one-year detour to NYC for David’s fellowship year, they have returned to Southern Pines where Maria’s husband is now a partner in the Pinehurst Surgical Clinic and Maria joined Carolina Equine Clinic as a part-time associate veterinarian. She is enjoying getting to know our clients and providing ambulatory services, client education and hospital clinical case care. Maria and David have 3 sons and reside in Pinehurst.

equine veterinarian - Dr. Fred B. McCashin, VMD, M.Sc.