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. Julie Gee finds wound care the most gratifying to treat.
Dr. Gee loves spending time outside, particularly on the water. Her favorite hobbies are scuba diving and spending time with her husband and son.
Dr. Jenny Lind has a strong interest in wound management and enjoys the challenge and variety of emergency medicine. She especially loves seeing the strength of the human-animal bond and supporting both pets and their families.
Dr. Lind enjoys spending time with her Labrador mix, Matilda, along with her leopard tortoise, Pop Tort. She also enjoys watching Penn State football (WE ARE) and cheering for the Florida Gators.
Dr. Andrea Maceri is an experienced emergency clinician and enjoys working with exotic pets, dogs, cats and their families. She is also a veterinarian in the United States Army Reserve. It is with the military that she utilizes her Master of Public Health degree and board certification in veterinary preventive medicine, helping to stop disease across the globe.
Dr. Maceri and her husband are avid rose gardeners, exhibiting and judging roses across the country. They enjoy relaxing at home with their dogs, cats, parrot and chickens.
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.
Particularly compassionate for cats with emergent problems, Dr. Freyda Staten considers herself the queen of curing the cat with a urethral obstruction. She also enjoys the variety of trauma cases and finds wound care rewarding.
Dr. Staten is an avid runner who uses her running time to listen to audiobooks. She also enjoys music and photography, especially cat photography. She has four dogs: two dachshunds, a pug and a husky mix, but, she’s a self-proclaimed cat person, and the love of her life is cat Mr. Steev.
Dr. Katie Thompson enjoys managing complicated cases like diabetic ketoacidosis, thoracic trauma/pleural effusion and lethal dose intoxications. She finds “quick fixes” such as abscesses, lacerations, jaw fractures and porcupine quills particularly gratifying. She is passionate about transfusion medicine and likes using blood products to save lives.
Dr. Thompson and her husband – a fellow WSU grad – have a six-year-old female calico cat they adopted from a shelter in Idaho.
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.