BluePearl Pet Hospital
Franklin, TN

Dr. Jenna Ashton likes problem solving and diagnosing challenging cases. Her favorites are renal and gastrointestinal, and she enjoys ultrasounds and endoscopy.

Dr. Ashton loves traveling, yoga and outdoor activities like hiking, skiing, backpacking and paddle boarding. She’s also a Florida Gators football fan.

Dr. Au practiced at the Murdoch University Veterinary Hospital in Western Australia before joining BluePearl.

Dr. Au enjoys outdoor activities, including fly fishing and kayaking.

Dr. Travis Beeler has a particular interest in wound care and laceration repair.

Dr. Beeler enjoys the outdoors. Some of his favorite pastimes include hiking, camping, backpacking, kayaking and bird watching. His housemates are a dog and a bird.

Dr. Martha Bennett enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine, particularly treating toxicity cases.

Dr. Bennett’s free time is spent with her seven horses. She also enjoys polo, scuba diving and Krav Maga, a type of self defense.

Dr. Theresa Blakey enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine, especially treating neurological diseases.

Dr. Blakey enjoys rock climbing, movies and time with her husband and daughter. The family has two dogs, Chloe and Emma, and a cat named Luna.

Dr. Sarah Daniel’s particular interests are soft tissue procedures, especially wound management. She has a published journal article on the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic liver biopsies.

Dr. Daniel enjoys time with her husband, two daughters, and dogs Hope and Cooper.

Dr. Kristen Datte's clinical interests include septic diseases and management of trauma and postoperative patients. She also enjoys working with feline patients, especially those with pyothorax (fluid/pus in the chest cavity) and urethral obstructions.

Dr. Datte loves cycling, running and hiking. She has two cats: Romeo is obsessed with eating but overweight and happy, and Chloe loves exploring outside and stalking all manner of insect life.

A senior emergency clinician, Dr. Sarah Decker is particularly interested in cardiac cases.

Dr. Decker loves outdoor activities like hiking, paddle boarding and camping, as well as competitive and performance ballroom dancing. The family pets include Dasher, a long-haired dachshund, who loves to play and go on hikes, and 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. Jessica Fournier enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Fournier enjoys body building, cross training, traveling, hiking, photography and going on adventures. A fan of all hounds, her dog Sadie is a red tick coonhound, beagle mix.

An experienced veterinarian, Dr. Jennifer Hamm has been practicing for a number of years, spending the majority exclusively in an emergency medicine practice, most recently as the medical director. Her clinical interests include trauma, wound care, acute kidney injury and bleeding disorders.

Dr. Hamm enjoys gardening, baking and a variety of workouts to include yoga and spinning. She lives with three cats.

Dr. Pamela Lucas’ clinical interests include hematopoietic cancers such as lymphoma and multiple myeloma and also primary bone tumors such as osteosarcoma. She also focuses on alleviating pathologic pain.

Dr. Lucas is married to her high school sweetheart, and considers family the center of her life. She enjoys traveling, cooking, watching football, gardening, backpacking and reading. Sage and Barley are the family dogs, and O'Malley is the cat.

Dr. Andrea Monnig is the BluePearl Director of Clinical Programs. Prior to joining us, she was an assistant professor at The Ohio State University. Her special interests include endocrine emergencies, sepsis, coagulation disorders, acid-based derangements and nutritional management of the critically ill patient.

Dr. Monnig and her husband have two dogs and a three-legged cat. She enjoys watching sports and playing golf.

Dr. Kimberly Mulligan’s favorite diagnosing modality is computed tomography (CT), especially to identify and determine the specific location of portosystemic shunts. She is also excited by the continuing advances in cross-sectional imaging because they are bringing veterinary medicine closer to the specificity achieved in the human medical field.

Dr. Mulligan’s favorite pastimes include camping/backpacking, reading, binge-watching TV shows, and attending concerts and music festivals. She and her husband have a black Labrador/blue heeler mix.

Dr. Jaime Rechy is particularly interested in vascular ultrasonography, 3D printing, and interventional radiology. His research projects included documenting the effects of intravenous sedation on portal blood flow velocity using Doppler ultrasound; developing a 3D printed prototype model for rhinoscopy training; and investigating lung nodules in cats with inflammatory airway disease using computed tomography.

Dr. Rechy and his wife enjoy hiking the Great Smoky Mountains and exploring greater Nashville’s best restaurants and music venues. They share their home with Kaiser, a dachshund-mix.

Dr. Kelly 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 his concerts, gardening and outdoor time. She and her husband have two children, two cats, Hamish and Aurora, and a dwarf rabbit named Priscilla.

Dr. Nick Szigetvari’s particular clinical interests include mast cell tumors, lymphoma and anal gland tumors.

Dr. Szigetvari loves live music, good food, cooking, traveling and any outdoor activity, especially hiking, fishing and skiing. Mabel is his mixed breed dog.

Dr. Carly Waugh is passionate about many areas of internal medicine and finds the diagnosis and treatment of infectious, immune-mediated and endocrine diseases particularly rewarding. Dr. Waugh also enjoys diagnostic and interventional endoscopy.

Dr. Waugh enjoys running, cooking, traveling, playing the piano and spending time with her husband, Travis, and their two dogs, Wynn and Charlie. She is delighted to be back in Tennessee.