Long Island, New York
Specialist ultrasound and internal medicine, at your veterinarian’s office.
Animal Internal Medicine is a mobile veterinary ultrasound and internal medicine consultation service. We bring quality, affordable specialty diagnostics to patients within the comfort of their primary-care hospital.
Call or text 877-775-2467 · [email protected]
- DACVIM Board-certified internist
- Fear Free Certified, most pets unsedated
- Same day Written report to your vet
- Since 2021 Serving Long Island clinics
Expanding access to internal medicine
Board-certified care, without the trip to a referral hospital.
Animal Internal Medicine (AIM) was founded in 2021 by Dr. Lauren Sikorski, DVM, DACVIM, a board-certified internal medicine specialist who has been practicing on Long Island for over a decade. AIM’s goal is to bring quality, affordable, specialized diagnostics and care to patients within the comfort of their primary-care hospital.
Instead of sending a sick pet across the island to a specialty center, the specialist comes to the clinic: abdominal ultrasound, echocardiography, ultrasound-guided sampling and a written internal medicine opinion, delivered the same day to the veterinarian who knows the patient best.
Services
What we bring to your clinic
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Abdominal ultrasound
A detailed, organ-by-organ look inside the abdomen when blood work and radiographs have not given the full answer.
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Echocardiogram
An in-depth ultrasound of the heart to diagnose and stage heart disease and to make sense of a murmur.
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Small parts ultrasound
Focused scans of the neck, eyes, superficial masses and other small structures.
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Musculoskeletal ultrasound
Real-time imaging of tendons, ligaments, muscles and joints.
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Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspirate
Cell samples from an organ or mass, collected under ultrasound guidance without surgery.
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Health check and pre-operative screening
A baseline abdominal or cardiac scan before anesthesia, for senior pets, or for peace of mind.
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Internal medicine consultation
Board-certified case review, on site at your clinic or by telehealth.
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Telehealth consultations
Wherever you are, we are. Case review with Dr. Sikorski by phone or video, now scheduling.
Conditions
Compassionate care for a broad range of conditions
Dr. Sikorski’s clinical interest spans all aspects of internal medicine, with a particular focus on reaching a difficult diagnosis with the fewest, most cost-effective diagnostics.
- Anemia and bleeding disorders
- Chronic vomiting or diarrhea
- Coughing and other breathing problems
- Endocrine disease: adrenal gland disease, complicated diabetes, thyroid disorders
- Infectious disease
- Kidney or bladder disease
- Liver disease
- Unexplained weight loss
- Cardiac disease: myxomatous valve disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- Cancers: lymphoma, mast cell tumor, hemangiosarcoma
How it works
Three steps from referral to answers
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Your veterinarian refers
The primary-care veterinarian identifies the need for advanced imaging or a specialist opinion and submits a request to AIM.
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We come to the clinic
Dr. Sikorski and her technician perform the ultrasound or consultation on site, in the hospital your pet already knows.
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A plan, together
Findings and recommendations go back to your veterinarian the same day, and together we build the most sensible path forward.
Your specialist
Dr. Lauren Sikorski, DVM, DACVIM
Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Dr. Sikorski completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania and has practiced referral medicine since 2008. She is Fear Free certified and thrives on the challenge of reaching a difficult diagnosis with minimal diagnostics, because for many families an affordable answer is the difference between treatment and no treatment.
About Dr. Sikorski and AIMReady to schedule?
Veterinary clinics can request an appointment online in about two minutes. Pet owners: ask your primary veterinarian to refer you to AIM.
