Alex Casuccio was a veterinary member on the Investigative Committee. Based on his LinkedIn biography he obtained his veterinary degree from Louisiana State University. After several years he returned to his native West Virginia to launch a veterinary clinic that he ran for almost two decades. During that time, he also hosted a radio show on West Virginia Public Radio. He moved to Arizona and worked as a relief veterinarian and business consultant for several years, eventually working for Banfield and managing 17 hospitals in the region. He later went on to be the owner-operator of Scottsdale Animal Healthcare (link).
Casuccio served on the Investigative Committee for several years. As his tenure goes back further than the retention period for Board minutes, secondary sources are necessary to come up with a general estimate for dates. He was mentioned in the February 2012 The Scratching Post veterinary board newsletter serving on the AM Investigative Committee alongside Arizona Veterinary Medical Association past president Jeffery Brown and fellow investigator and future board member Robyn Jaynes. He appears to have been on his way out by fiscal year 2018 as we have only a few complaints in which he took part.
Despite his LinkedIn bullet points of merging over 50 Banfield veterinarians into a profitable veterinary business enterprise replete with PowerPoints, an interview in the August 2018 VoyagePhoenix is somewhat more sanguine about his time in corporate medicine. In the article, Meet Dr. Alex Casuccio of Scottsdale Animal Healthcare, he bemoans the lack of warmth to clients and the strict structures of corporate practice. He longed to return to the folksy, family-friendly veterinary world of his original practice and launched Scottsdale Animal Healthcare to provide that special touch for client care (link).
The article, like so many, is basically an ad. The clinic is said to have three veterinarians and the necessary equipment to handle most internal medicine cases as well as soft tissue, orthopedic, and ophthalmic surgery despite no mention of any specialists in those fields being on hand; one suspects he's the resident expert in those areas judging by his LinkedIn profile and the website's marketing materials. As of 2023 one of the fellow vets at the clinic was his daughter-in-law, Rachel (Cherico) Casuccio. Michelle Casuccio, apparently Alex's wife, is listed as the other member of the hospital's LLC in its 2013 Articles of Organization as filed with the state.
Alex Casuccio voted to dismiss about 75.0% of complaints in our Tails of Woe.
We've tallied up Alex Casuccio's votes during the time covered by our public records requests. Of the cases we have, Alex Casuccio voted in 8 cases. Of those, Alex Casuccio voted in favor of at least one motion containing the word "dismiss" in 6 of them.
Below we've included Alex Casuccio's vote breakdowns for up to ten of the most common motions. We also have a detailed list of votes and their associated complaints available in the Voting History.
| Motion | Aye | Nay | Recused | Absent | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dismiss with no violation | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Find violation | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |