BluePearl Pet Hospital
Christiana
Newark, DE

Dr. Suliman Al-Ghazlat’s expertise is often sought for the treatment of patients with immune-mediated diseases. His other clinical interests include ultrasonography, ultrasound-guided needle biopsy and minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures. Prior to joining BluePearl, Dr. Al-Ghazlat was an assistant professor at the Jordan University of Science and Technology and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Al-Ghazlat spends time with his French bulldog, Hot Pocket, and his Siamese cat, Oren. He is an avid traveler and hiker.

Dr. Bernadetta Bernatowicz developed her passion for emergency medicine while treating urgent-care patients as a former general practitioner. She enjoys the challenges and rewards that come with emergency medicine cases.

Dr. Bernatowicz enjoys spending time outdoors with her family, which includes her sidekick Panda, an adorable pit bull mix.

Dr. Jeffrey Bowersox is the medical director for our New Castle hospital. He enjoys the microsurgical aspect of ophthalmology. Some of his favorite procedures include cataract surgery, oculoplastic reconstruction and ocular surface and corneal reconstruction.

Dr. Bowersox has played ice hockey since he was six. Other favorite pastimes include hiking, motorcycle riding, reading, visiting Civil War battlefields, and international travel with his two children and his bilingual wife who grew up living in various countries in Latin America. The family has two dogs, Toffee and Truffles.

Dr. Natalie Campbell loves physical medicine and using her hands to treat patients. She particularly enjoys treating geriatric patients and helping them get back to activities they haven’t done for years.

Dr. Campbell enjoys yoga, gardening and reading. She has three kids, a Chihuahua named Wonky and a cat named Henry.

Dr. Alyson Frederick enjoys both soft tissue and orthopedic surgery. Her particular clinical interests include, but are not limited to, minimally invasive procedures, emergency surgeries, surgical oncology, and fracture repair. Her previous research involved evaluating prognosis and survival time for dogs with functional thyroid tumors that were surgically removed.

Dr. Frederick is an avid runner and has completed a number of marathons including the Boston Marathon. She also enjoys kayaking, swimming, cycling and Penn State football games.

Dr. Rachael Gaeta enjoys clinical practice, teaching interns and nurses, and providing continuing education opportunities for our referral community. Her favorite part of clinical oncology is working with families to maintain the quality of life of their pets and helping them to find options that work within their means and comfort level. She has a particular interest in thyroid tumors and hematopoietic malignancies.

Dr. Gaeta is an avid foodie and enjoys scrapbooking, gardening, and reading (especially books that start with a map). She and her husband have two sons and two cats, Boo and Door.

Dr. Dana Gale particularly enjoys surgery involving the thorax, or chest region, to include mass removals, surgery to correct chylothorax, a condition in which fluid builds up in the chest cavity, and surgery to correct a heart defect called patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). She also likes airway surgeries such as those to correct laryngeal paralysis. Her orthopedic interests include regenerative medicine and minimally invasive arthroscopy to treat joint conditions, such as cranial cruciate ligament injuries (similar to ACL injuries in humans) and elbow dysplasia.

Dr. Gale enjoys dressage and eventing horseback riding, and in her quieter times, reading. She and her husband like traveling and new restaurants. They have two dogs, Remi and Weezer, and cat Amadeus.

Dr. Yi Gu is part of our emergency medicine training program for clinicians. She particularly enjoys treating and healing critical patients and helping them return to their families.

In her spare time, Dr. Gu loves cooking and trying out different cuisines. She has a sweet orange tabby named Crouton.

Passionate about providing high quality care to all patients, Dr. Laura Guliani finds treating minor traumas especially gratifying.

Dr. Guliani enjoys being outdoors and spending time with friends and family. She has two yellow Labrador retrievers.

Dr. Jenna Kahn is part of our emergency medicine training program for clinicians. She is passionate about pet care and is especially interested in treating kidney injuries and neurologic emergencies.

A self-described foodie, Dr. Kahn also enjoys skiing, traveling, and binging TV shows at home with her two dogs and her cat.

Dr. Dora Kassel is a highly experienced emergency clinician. Her professional interests include cardiovascular emergencies, sepsis and immune mediated conditions

Dr. Kassel enjoys group fitness classes, spending time with her husband, children and two dogs, a rescue border collie/Labrador mix and a cocker spaniel.

Dr. Katherine Knight enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine, especially working in a specialty medicine environment. She finds Addison's disease and pericardial effusion particularly gratifying to treat.

Dr. Knight’s favorite pastimes include cooking, baking and hiking. She has two cats, Sesame and Sophie, and a dog named Lexie.

Dr. Yael Porat-Mosenco enjoys all aspects of diagnostic imaging.

A dedicated emergency clinician, Dr. Taylor Robinson particularly enjoys treating conditions such as Addison’s disease, lameness and fractures.

Dr. Robinson enjoys gardening and eventing with her horse. She is married and also has two dogs and two cats.

Dr. Laura Roy-Eitner is the intern coordinator and ER team lead. She especially enjoys treating trauma and endocrine emergencies, and managing patients in shock.

Dr. Roy-Eitner enjoys hiking with her dog, a pit bull named Fidget. She also has two litter-mate kittens named Chachi and Cha-Cha. One of her favorite pastimes is baking, but she admits to as many failures as successes.

As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Laurie Sorrell-Raschi offers both anesthetic care and pain management. With a wealth of experience in multiple pain management techniques, including therapeutics such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids, she is also experienced in local anesthetic and analgesic techniques, such as epidurals, nerve blocks and regional blocks. Additionally, Dr. Sorrell-Raschi is trained in acupuncture, which can be a valuable aid for patients undergoing surgery, cancer treatment, and chronic pain management.

Dr. Sorrell enjoys gourmet baking, knitting, crocheting, playing the recorder and saxophone, and reading. She is married and has three daughters. The family’s pets include two Bernese mountain dogs, Lochlan and Zaphod, a pit bull/Corgi mix named Kaliope, and a shih tzu mix named Kevin.

Dr. Mary Joe Tyler worked as a vet tech before becoming a veterinarian. She finds treating feline urinary obstructions particularly gratifying.

Dr. Tyler has four cats and enjoys hiking, reading, baking and Netflix.

Dr. Connie Yeh’s particular clinical interests include blepharoplastic procedures, corneal disease, inherited retinal diseases and glaucoma.

Dr. Yeh is fluent in both English and Madarin Chinese. She enjoys photography, traveling, trying new foods and wines, and watching University of Michigan football with her husband. Their family pet is a cat named Ted.

Natalie enjoys the opportunity to work with a variety of pet species, in a field that was not a common specialty when she started. She is particularly interested cases in which systemic disease manifests in the eye.

Christine is interested in finding the connection between ocular illnesses and systemic ones, and fitting all of the pieces of the puzzle together to ensure the best care for patients. She enjoys spending time with her husband and son, and their lab mix Cole.

Alanna loves “basically everything” about the internal medicine field, especially autoimmune, endocrine and GI cases. She enjoys nursing patients back to health and educating both clients and other technicians. Married with one son, she’s a mom who enjoys home improvement. The family has a talkative cat named Simba.

Making a difference in critical situations and the nature of emergency care drives Lisa, as well as the variety of cases and advancing the knowledge of a veterinary technician’s role in the hospital. Some of her particular interests include trauma and wound management cases as well as assisting in surgery, anesthesia monitoring and caring for ICU patients.

Liz feels the need to learn something new every day, and working in emergency and critical care medicine helps her do that. She enjoys caring for patients that require intense one-on-one nursing and using advanced imaging tools, like ultrasound, CT and MRI, to help with diagnosis and treatment.