A native of Long Island, Dr. Michel Selmer attended Long IslandUniversity and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology. Following his undergraduate studies, he was admitted to Michigan State University School of Veterinary Medicine and earned his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 1995. After practicing as an associate veterinarian at an animal hospital on Long Island, Dr. Selmer opened Advanced Animal Care Center .

Focusing on Holistic or Integrative Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Selmer focuses on the examination and diagnosis of an animal, considering all aspects of the animal’s life and employing all of his senses, as well as the combination of conventional and alternative (or complementary) modalities of treatment. When Dr. Selmer sees a pet, besides giving it a comprehensive physical examination, he wants to find out all about its behaviors, distant medical and dietary history, and its environment including diet, emotional stresses, and other factors.

Holistic medicine, by its very nature, is humane to the core. The wholeness of its scope will set up a lifesyle for the animal that is most appropriate. Dr. Selmer's approach is gentle, minimally invasive, and incorporates the patients well-being and strives for stress reduction. His thinking is centered on love, empathy, and respect. 

This mixture of healing arts and skills is as natural as life itself. At the core of this issue lies the very essence of the word “(w)holistic”. It means taking in the whole picture of the patient—the environment, the disease pattern, the relationship of pet with owner—and developing a treatment protocol using a wide range of therapies for healing the patient.

The holistic practitioner, Dr. Selmer, is interested in genetics, nutrition, family relationships, hygiene, and stress factors. Many patients present in a state of “disease.” At this point the holistic challenge lies in the question “why?” By a series of analytic observations and appropriate testing the goal becomes finding the true root source of the pathology. A simple-appearing symptom may have several layers of causation. Only when the true cause of the ailment has been found is there the possibility for a lasting recovery.

It is at this point that the most efficacious, least invasive, least expensive, and least harmful path to cure is selected by Dr. Selmer.

In many acute situations, treatment may involve aspects of surgery and drug therapy from conventional western technology, along with alternative techniques to provide a complementary whole. This form of treatment has great value for severe trauma and certain infections. It often outperforms other methodologies. Once the symptoms have been treated, his task is not complete until the underlying disease patterns have been redirected. The patient, as well as the client, will be guided to a new level of health.

An accredited member of the New York State Veterinary Medical Society, as well as the American Animal Hospital Association and the Vice President of the Long Island Veterinary Medical Society, Dr. Selmer is passionate about his profession. This passion and his love for all animals has attributed to the high quality medicine that he practices. In 2010 and 2011 he was awarded Long Islands Best Veterinarian by the Long Island Press.  He was also cited as one of America 's top veterinarians by Consumer's Research Council of America for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.