Dr. Lagos graduated from the National University of Colombia in 2011. After working as a Veterinarian at the Teaching Hospital affiliated with the National University of Colombia for two years, in 2015, Dr. Lagos pursued a master’s degree in anesthesiology at the Sao Paulo State University. From there she went on to complete a three-year residency in anesthesia and pain management at Louisiana State University and concurrently obtained a Master of Science with major in anesthesiology at the same institution. In 2018, Dr. Lagos worked as an Anesthesiologist at the Ontario Veterinary College and became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia in 2020. In that same year, she moved to Calgary and joined the Care Centre to establish the foundation of the anesthesia service and provide the best quality of care for anesthetized patients. Her areas of interest are safety anesthesia protocol design, assessment and mitigation of anesthetic risks, hemodynamic support, acid-base balance disturbances, mechanical ventilation, and management of difficult airway.

As an anesthesiologist at CARE, Dr. Lagos is responsible for the training of technicians and interns in the field of anesthesia and pain management, creating an individualized anesthetic plan tailored for the safety and needs of each patient, performing a thorough clinical evaluation to recognize potential anesthetic risks and plan their prevention, delivering of anesthetic and analgesic drugs, monitoring physiologic well-being of the anesthetized patient, treating any complication that arise under anesthesia and providing the highest standard of perioperative patient care including analgesia.