Conditions treated
Learn which conditions our emergency team can help diagnose and treat, so your pet gets the right care for their needs.
Success stories
Discover how other pets have overcome their diagnoses with specialized care, giving you hope for your pet’s recovery.
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Pet emergencies can be scary – we’re here to help you handle them.
We understand that seeing your pet sick, hurt or in distress can be stressful – especially if you don’t know what’s wrong. Fortunately, our experienced ER clinicians are prepared to take action and help.
Acting quickly in an emergency may save your pet’s life.
If your pet is experiencing an emergency, you’ll have an entire veterinary team helping them so you can get back to what matters most – spending precious moments together.
Experience makes all the difference.
Our emergency team is made up of veterinarians, vet technicians and assistants, and support staff with rigorous training and experience in specialty medicine. The team works hand in hand to provide the comprehensive, compassionate care your pet needs and deserves. Because we’re a multidisciplinary hospital, the team can consult the expertise of other specialty departments, too.
Dr. Alda enjoys crafts like crocheting, reading fantasy/fiction novels, and spending time outdoors – especially kayaking. She has two cats: Kio and Renly.
Dr. Justin Campbell is passionate about making a positive impact for families in stressful times, especially by making complex, difficult situations clearer for pet owners. He finds trauma cases particularly gratifying to treat.
Dr. Campbell lives with his wife, whom he met while living in Australia, and his 14-year-old Cavoodle dog named Oakey Dokey. He enjoys travel, fly fishing, volleyball and golf.
Dr. Sarah Decker spent her whole life preparing for a veterinary career, from attending animal-oriented summer camps as a child to being a “trainer for a day” at the San Diego Zoo and working with a local veterinarian while in high school. She brings broad experience to the BluePearl emergency team as a senior clinician, finding emergency medicine exciting because of the variability of cases and the satisfaction of immediately helping pets and families when they need it most. Dr. Decker is particularly interested in cardiac cases and also enjoys performing laceration repairs and correcting urethral obstructions.
Dr. Decker loves competitive ballroom dancing as well as outdoor activities like hiking, paddle boarding and camping. The family pets include Dasher, a long-haired dachshund who loves to play and go on hikes, and a very old kitty named Tier.
Dr. Kate Elliott is particularly interested in pain management, oncology and cardiology.
Dr. Elliott enjoys reading, horseback riding, hiking, skiing, knitting, and spending time with her two dogs, Mongo and Olivia.
Dr. Lily Lewis’ primary interest is theriogenology, and she is excited to bring this specialty service to BluePearl.
Dr. Kristen Maxwell enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine and finds stabilizing emergent cases like heatstroke, gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV), hemoabdomen, sepsis and traumatic brain injury especially gratifying.
Dr. Maxwell has four pets: a dog (Gracie), a cat (Catniss), a blue-tongue skink (Sheldon), and a crested gecko (Curtis). She enjoys hiking, mountain biking, playing hockey and trying new foods and restaurants.
Dr. Breanna Morton is a small animal medicine & surgery intern. Dr. Morton finds wound management, C-sections, emergency cases, and neurology-related disorders the most gratifying to treat.
Dr. Morton has a bichon frise named Gus and a tuxedo cat named Princess Jasmine. She is a plant mom and loves baking, watching movies, going on nature hikes, and kayaking.
Dr. Kelly Ross has always loved caring for animals, and her family knew by the time she was five that her career was determined. She spent her childhood riding horses, training dogs and even administering insulin injections to her diabetic dog. It is the variety of cases in emergency medicine that keeps her challenged and excited. Proficient in all aspects of emergency medicine, Dr. Ross is particularly interested in endocrine and urinary tract emergencies, radiology and ultrasound.
While living in Scotland, Dr. Ross met and married her husband who is a drummer. She enjoys watching his concerts, gardening and spending time outdoors with her husband and two children. They have an orange female domestic shorthair cat named Hamish, a domestic longhair named Aurora and a dwarf rabbit named Priscilla.
Dr. Nora Sloan is particularly interested in nutrition and gastrointestinal diseases.
In her free time, Dr. Sloan enjoys cross-stitching, reading and spending time with her Labradors (Tetley, Verbena and Cricket) and cats (Friday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday).
Dr. Lauren Valad’s clinical interests include feline medicine, emergency medicine and quality of life care for geriatric pets.
Dr. Valad has a cat named Mazey and enjoys hiking, rock climbing (very casually) and watching Gator games.
We know an unexpected trip to the emergency pet hospital can be stressful, and we want you to be prepared so you have one less thing to worry about. Our entire BluePearl team will be with you every step of the way.
During an emergency, every second counts. If your pet is experiencing an emergency, call us so we can talk you through their situation and be with you.
Our goal is always for your pet to have the best chance at a complete recovery so they can return home with you, happy and healthy.