Margo Roman, DVM
Owner of MASH Main St. Animal Services of Hopkinton established in 1983 www.mashvet.com. MASH is a full service holistic veterinary clinic offering alternative modalities in acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, herbs, both western and Chinese medicine, ozone therapy, nutrition, as well as conventional therapies and surgery in an integrative approach to total health care.
Dr. Roman has been practicing veterinary medicine since 1978. She is a graduate of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, did her internship at Angell Memorial Hospital in 1978-1979, and was on the Tufts University Veterinary School Faculty from 1979-1987. Dr. Roman also did research/fellowships at Stanford University in Cardiac transplantation in 1971 and Harvard University’s New England Regional Primate Research Center in 1977. While at the University of Florida she worked for Department of Veterinary Extension. She consulted as a veterinarian for Creative Biomolecule ACU Committee.
Dr. Roman was the first woman veterinarian to take the International Veterinary Acupuncture Course (IVAS) in 1975-76. She has studied Homeopathy with Luc De Schepper and the Renaissance Institute of Classical Homeopathy, as well as with Richard Pitcairn’s Animal Natural Health Center. She has completed The Tufts Veterinary Chiropractic, Acupuncture and Herbal courses.
Dr. Roman has lectured nationally and internationally; most recently she was in China and Japan in May 2006 lecturing on Alternative and Integrated Modalities in Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Roman lectured on at Hampshire College for the Northeast Organic Farm Association 32nd Annual Summer Conference 2006 on Bovine Leukemia Virus BLV and the Link to Human and Animal Cancer. www.emilyproject.org
In January 2004, after going to Tufts University, she became extremely frustrated with the care of her 25 year old Morgan horse Champ; the only option they gave her was to euthanize the horse. He was diagnosed with metastatic squamous cell carcinoma and his cancer was in the bones of the orbit. These events inspired her to empower the animal caretakers to be knowledgeable about all options in health care. Champ was euthanized on July 28, 2006 at the age of 27 -- 2 1/2 years after his near fatal appointment at Tufts. Champ had participated in a horse show and competitive trail ride during those years. He was ridden by several people until two weeks before his death. Champ’s squamous cell carcinoma cancer had finally spread to his lower jaw and he was not able to eat. Even at the end he wanted to be with all his friends. All the neighborhood children came with flowers to his final hour and he walked to each one and nestled and greeted them. Champ was a teacher whose lesson was to always keep your mind open for options to help one’s health. Champ had 116 intravenous ozone treatments, as well as an array of herbs and nutritional supplements. His determination to have Dr. Roman explore, study and do more is the reason for Dr.DoMore.
Integrating conventional medicine and alternative medicine is holistic; we need it all to get the most out of healing and good health.
A second inspiration for Dr. Do More was the inability of conventional practitioners to do more for Rosebud, who was a 3 1/2 year Pomeranian, who, in April 2006, had a reaction to an anesthetic agent and needed to have alternative modalities to help her body clear her system. Only a MRI was offered to diagnosis the issue, and she died during the MRI. No pathology was found during a postmortem in May 2006.
Dr. Roman has been married to Jeffrey Auerhahn for 26 years. They have 3 children Shira, Noah, and Dalia and loving dogs, cat and bird.
 Simone Hnilicka is an Independent Film Producer - Silent Sage Video and Pear Productions of Concord Massachusetts, whose interest in progressive health care, including alternative and integrative therapies for herself and her pets have been a passion. Her experience with her aging friend Mousha a Shepard, cocker, lab, collie dog of all genes, with alternative veterinary care including acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, nutrition and herbs helped him to live out his geriatric life with dignity and positive health.
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