BluePearl Pet Hospital
Franklin, TN

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. Kaitlyn Bello is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. Her particular interests include dermatology and soft tissue surgery.

Dr. Bello enjoys time with her nieces and her lab mix.

Dr. Martha Bennett enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Bennett’s free time is spent playing polo with her five horses, Loretta, Gypsy, Cooper, Avi and Roxy. She also enjoys scuba diving, running, cooking, and her saltwater aquarium.

Dr. Marc Bercovitch created the first hemodialysis unit for cats and dogs in private veterinary practice. He enjoys all aspects of internal medicine.

Dr. Bercovitch enjoys spending time with his wife and their two dogs, puttering in the yard, whipping up meals in the kitchen or making travel plans with his family.

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.

Dr. Drew Davis is a small animal medicine and surgery with a particular interest in surgery and oncology.

Dr. Davis enjoys playing guitar and outdoor time with his wife, especially hiking or fishing. They have three dogs: a lazy brindle great Dane, a spunky black Labrador retriever, and a senior Plotthound.

Dr. Sarah Quarterman is particularly interested in cardiac cases and also enjoys performing laceration repairs and correcting urethral obstructions.

Dr. Quarterman and her husband love outdoor activities such as hiking, paddle boarding and camping. Their pet family includes golden retriever Cason, long-haired dachshund Dasher, and a pair of older cats.

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. DeAnne Fanta is an intern in our surgery service.

Dr. Fanta likes to stay active and enjoys exercise classes and biking. She also likes trying new foods and recipes. Her dog, Patches, is a shih tzu, and Corn Chip and Howard II are her cats.

Dr. Madeleine Hendrix is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. Her particular interests include neurological disorders and dentistry.

Dr. Hendrix likes live music, playing/watching sports, and trying new restaurants. Her golden retriever’s name is Franklin.

Dr. Katie Lehman is a small animal medicine and surgery intern with a special interest in diagnostic imaging.

Dr. Lehman and her husband enjoy hiking, camping and traveling with their dog.

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.

Before joining us, Dr. Andrea Monnig was an assistant professor at The Ohio State University. Her special interests include endocrine emergencies such as diabetic ketacidosis and Addisonian crisis, polytrauma, sepsis, coagulation disorders and nutritional management of the critically ill patient.

Dr. Monnig likes to ballroom dance, golf, garden, cook, travel and ride her quarter horse, Teddy. She has two golden retrievers, Chloe and “crazy” Bentley.

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. Rebecca Noel is an intern in our surgery service. Her clinical interests include fracture repair, sports medicine, trauma and wound management, and surgical oncology.

Dr. Noel’s favorite pastimes include running, mountain biking, woodworking and reading. Her pets include border collie Bella, redbone coonhound Leon, and cats Peyton, Nerlens and Olive.

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. Chris Reeder's particular clinical interests include immune-mediated and autoimmune skin diseases, specifically pemphigus, and chronic and acute otitis externa and the associated ear flushes and advanced videotoscopy. He loves all things related to dermatopathology and works as a diagnostic consultant in the field.

Dr. Reeder, his wife and three children are active in their church. Triathlons, searching for new restaurants, cooking, hunting, shooting and hobby-farming are some of his other favorite pastimes. He has two dogs, standard poodle Bean, and golden retriever-Pyrenees mix Ty. His farm residents include a Rex rabbit, and eight chickens.

Dr. Michelle Riehm is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. She enjoys treating immune-mediated, blood and endocrine disorders.

Dr. Riehm enjoys reading, watching Disney movies and traveling. She has a lab, a lab mix, and one cat.

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.

Dr. Taylor Wickware is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. Her particular interests include ophthalmology and internal medicine.

In addition to being a veterinarian, Dr. Wickware runs a small art and calligraphy business. She has an Airedale terrier.

Dr. Mirae Wood was an assistant professor of small animal surgery at the University of Missouri-Columbia before joining BluePearl. Dr. Wood is especially interested in surgical oncology, abdominal surgery, neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery.

Dr. Wood enjoys distance running, dance-oriented workouts, watching SEC sports, and spending time with her husband.

Dr. Michelle Yoshida is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. Her interests include diagnostic imaging, emergency medicine and pain management.

Dr. Yoshida has a large pet family, two pug mixes and three cats: Daithi, Dewi, Deirdre, Dobry, and Deason.