BluePearl Pet Hospital
Midtown, NY

Dr. Jill Abraham has served on the Credentials Committee for the American College of Veterinary Dermatology for a number of years. She has a special interest in feline dermatology and immune-mediated skin diseases.

Dr. Abraham enjoys spending time with her friends and family and exploring New York city with her dog Norman. She loves watching movies but really prefers to be outdoors.

Dr. Aparna Arun is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. She finds it gratifying to see quick recoveries from surgical intervention, so two of her favorite procedures include trauma reconstruction and foreign body removals.

Dr. Arun loves exploring restaurants and fitness classes with her husband. She often makes watercolor paintings of places to which she’s travelled.

Dr. Tara Bellis' particular interests include sepsis, respiratory disease, fluid therapy, mechanical ventilation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and transfusion medicine.

Dr. Bellis loves travel, photography and painting. A fan of the outdoors, she likes running, hiking, water sports and walking her dog, mixed breed Chase.

Dr. Emily Bien enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Bien enjoys traveling and spending time with friends and family, which includes her rescue dog, Pippa.

Dr. Rachel Carlson is especially interested in acute trauma, wound management and all aspects of critical care.

Dr. Carlson loves surfing, traveling and biking. In New York City, she tries to eat all the food the city has to offer. Her dog is a miniature dachshund named Pickles.

Dr. Jenna Charles is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. She is particularly interested in neurology and endocrine diseases.

Dr. Charles likes exploring Central Park with her rescue dog Jax.

Dr. Christine Choe's clinical interests include traumatic injuries and pain management associated with trauma, and she finds urethral obstructions in cats and dogs to be very satisfying cases.

Dr. Choe’s likes searching for every restaurant in Brooklyn that will allow her to eat on the patio with dogs Hagrid and Ronald Pablo. She also enjoys Home and Garden TV, shopping and coffee.

Dr. Lucy Chou is an intern in our surgery service.

Dr. Chou enjoys going on culinary explorations, snowboarding and traveling. Her furry family member is a Lhasa apso named Buster.

Dr. Katherine Crook enjoys the challenge and puzzle of localizing a lesion. During her residency, she received extensive training in spinal and brain surgeries, and these procedures remain her particular favorites.

With a Swedish husband, Dr. Crook enjoys traveling across the Atlantic and speaking fluent German. An avid runner, she has trained for and completed many half marathons. The couple has a cat named Jesper Fredrick.

Dr. Meredith Daly has conducted clinical research involving glycemic control in critically ill animals.

Dr. John Farrelly stays active in his field as a professional journal editor and manuscript reviewer. He has chaired therapy groups, reviewed certification exams, instructed at Cornell University and, as a consultant, provided biostatistics services for veterinarians. Although there are a number of tumors that are challenging to treat, Dr. Farrelly finds nasal tumors fascinating because they are surrounded by critical structures, like the eyes and brain. In the past, treatment of these tumors often came with devastating side effects, but he has been able to watch and work with advances in technology, allowing for more rewarding treatment of these patients.

Married to his high school sweetheart, Dr. Farrelly and his wife have four children. The family enjoys sports, like skiing and snowboarding, and music. When time allows, Dr. Farrelly even plays the bagpipes. The four-legged members of the family include Kissy Murphy, a fun-loving mutt and Jasper, the cat, who runs the house.

Dr. Jean Ferreri is skilled in all aspects of internal medicine. She's one of the original team members at BluePearl in New York City.

Dr. Philip Fico’s particular clinical interests include electrolyte derangements and treating sepsis and polytrauma cases.

Dr. Fico is an amateur illustrator and Muay Thai fighter. He and his wife have a cat named Ruby.

Dr. Justin Fraser is a small animal medicine and surgery intern with a special interest in cardiology cases.

Dr. Fraser likes horror movies, college and professional football, and country music.

Dr. Jeffrey Ganus is especially interested in cardiac and respiratory emergencies; metabolic and endocrine diseases; and immune-mediated diseases such as immune-mediated hemolytic anemia and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia.

Dr. Ganus enjoys snowboarding, skiing, biking, tennis, hiking and hanging out in Central Park. Passionate about food and music, Dr. Ganus named his English bulldog, Monk, after the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.

Dr. Laura Gibeon enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Gibeon enjoys rock climbing, skiing and time with her family, which includes two cats, Sponge and Schmutzig.

As a veterinarian with advanced training in anesthesia and pain management, Dr. Elizabeth Goudie-DeAngelis knows the value to a patient’s recovery of a well formulated treatment plan, and she enjoys educating other veterinarians on how best to formulate those plans. Her favorite cases are the challenging critical ones, such as shock, hemorrhage and electrolyte abnormalities.

Dr. Goudie-DeAngelis' hobbies include running, restoring historic houses, reading fiction, cooking and gardening. She and her husband have a mixed breed dog and two cats.

Dr. Greenberg is a medical director of the New York BluePearl hospitals. He has a special interest in surgical oncology and reconstructive surgery. His orthopedic interests include fracture repair with internal fixation and cranial cruciate ligament stabilization techniques.

Dr. Greenberg is an active volunteer with the NYC Medical Reserve Corps. He can also be found hiking, sea kayaking, running, skiing and cooking.

Dr. Kyle Hohu is an intern in our diagnostic imaging service.

Dr. Jennie Kim is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. Her particular interests include neurologic and endocrine diseases.

Dr. Kim’s favorite pastimes include running, working out and cooking Korean food. She has a yorkie who loves going to the park and beach.

Dr. Jeremy Kimmelstiel enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Kimmelstiel enjoys beekeeping, snowboarding and hiking. He has two pets. Millie is his Catahoula mix, and she can chase a ball all day. His handsome corn snake is named Charles.

Both the medical and surgical aspects of neurology drew Dr. Timothy Krebs to the field. And he likes the fact that he can treat often debilitating diseases and turn them around for his patients. His particular clinical interests include treatment of refractory seizure disorders as well as inflammatory and infectious diseases of the central nervous system.

Dr. Krebs enjoys CrossFit training, biking and running and has completed a number of marathons. His dog is a border collie mix named Buddy.

Before joining BluePearl, Dr. Andrew Kyles was a lecturer in small animal surgery at the University of Georgia and assistant professor, associate professor and finally chief of small animal surgery at the University of California at Davis.

Dr. Amanda LaPorte enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. LaPorte spends time with friends, traveling, trying new restaurants, and relaxing with Joe, her coonhound.

Dr. Matthew Lazarus is an intern in our surgery service.

Dr. Lazarus enjoys golfing, watching hockey and finding new places to explore. He has two dogs: Cali, an island coconut retriever, and Hudson, a German shepherd mix.

Dr. Jasmine Lee is a resident in our emergency and critical care service

Dr. Lee enjoys a good cup of coffee, curling up with a good book and live music shows. Tonks is her cat who hides in obscure places and wakes up her owner at 5am when she’s bored.

Dr. Michaël Lora-Michiels previously worked as a family veterinarian in Bogota, Colombia. He enjoys all aspects of diagnostic imaging.

Dr. Kristin Manning's clinical interests include endocrinology, immune-mediated disease and diseases of the urinary tract. She particularly enjoys integrating minimally invasive procedures, interventional endocscopy and stem cell therapy whenever possible.

Dr. Manning's favorite pastimes include hiking, biking, photography and spending time with her daughter and husband, who is a veterinary ICU technician. The family’s pets include cats, ferrets, red-eared sliders and Dorra the yellow lab.

Dr. Gretchen McLinden is a small animal medicine and surgery intern with a particular interest in oncology.

Cooking and traveling are two of Dr. McLinden’s favorite pastimes. Shenzi is her tortoise-shell calico cat.

Dr. Rebecca Meltzer is a doctor in our emergency service. She particularly enjoys treating feline obstructions.

Dr. Meltzer loves eating out and trying new or exotic dishes. She also likes hiking and spending time outdoors, but her favorite pastime is snuggling on the couch with her cat Charlie. She also has a Russian tortoise, Sputnik.

Dr. Keith Mihansky is especially interested in the treatment of patients after trauma, wound management, endocrine disease, pain management, and caring for geriatric patients.

Dr. Mihansky loves cooking and traveling. He also enjoys going to the gym, the beach and concerts. His dog is named Sophie and his orange tabby cat is Michelangelo.

Dr. Nicole Pacifico loves all of internal medicine, but has a particular interest in the treatment of gastrointestinal disease.

Dr. Pacifico spends most of her time with friends and family, including her dog Romney. She also enjoys traveling, loves spending time at the beach and is an avid runner.

Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Stony Brook University, NY

Some of Dr. Park’s favorite pastimes include drawing, rock/tree climbing, reading and playing with her dog Toby Ramen.

Dr. Pooja Rathore enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Pooja Rathore has volunteered on Native American reservations in Arizona and New Mexico; worked with thoroughbred racehorses in India; and worked in Sri Lanka with the Millennium Elephant Foundation. She is passionate about dancing and enjoys horseback riding.

Dr. Leah Ravitz enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Ravitz lives with a mutt named Omi and an herb garden on her fire escape. She enjoys travel, outdoor activities, and spending time with friends and family.

Dr. Jonathan Riccio is a small animal medicine and surgery intern with a special interest in diagnostic imaging, especially ultrasound.

Dr. Riccio has two dogs, Luca and Ethel, with whom he likes watching Netflix. Traveling and exploring new places are two other favorite activities.

Dr. Pedro Rivera Puig is an intern in our surgery service with an interest in thoracic and orthopedic surgery.

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dr. Rivera loves the beach and the ocean. One of his favorite hobbies is installing and maintaining salt water reef aquariums. He has an American bulldog mix named Belgium, and a long-haired Chihuahua named Demo.

Dr. Tim Rocha is the co-medical director of our New York Midtown hospital. He has been named by New York Magazine one of New York City’s best veterinary specialists. While in residency training, he received the Connie Leifer Memorial Award for his research in urinary bladder cancer in dogs.

Dr. Rocha is married to a veterinarian and enjoys spending time with his large family, which includes many people and several dogs and cats.

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

Movies and travel are two of Dr. Shamburger’s hobbies. She has a cat named Luna.

Dr. Stephanie Silberstang's special interests include wound management, respiratory diseases and critical care.

Dr. Silberstang enjoys rock climbing/bouldering, walking her dogs, traveling abroad, listening to live music and Asian food. A pitbull lover, Dr. Silberstang has two pit bull-Catahoula mixes named Tembo and Laika and a cockatiel named Doobie.

Dr. Suresh Singh is a small animal medicine and surgery intern and is particularly interested in surgery.

Dr. Singh likes scuba diving and showing his mates why New York pizza is supreme.

Dr. Gretchen Singletary is particularly interested in novel treatments for heart failure.

Dr. Singletary enjoys traveling, photography and music.

Dr. Loren Sri-Jayantha is a resident in our surgery service.

Dr. Sri-Jayantha says that he lives to eat and eats to live, so it’s no surprise that cooking is one of his hobbies. He also enjoys hiking, camping and reading. He has two cats Luna and Ripley.

Dr. Laura Stock's particular clinical interests include intoxications and endocrine diseases.

Dr. Stock enjoys time with her husband running, biking, hiking and eating her way through NYC. They share their home with a ridgeless Rhodesian ridgeback and two cats.

Dr. Ashlei Tinsley is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. Her clinical interests include emergency and critical care medicine, especially thoracic and blunt trauma.

Long walks with dogs Wyatt and Winston keep Dr. Tinsley busy. She also likes trying new foods and strength training.

Dr. Miranda Urielle is a doctor on our emergency medicine team. Her particular interests include endocrine diseases, auto-immune diseases and trauma.

Dr. Urielle’s favorite pastimes include travel, reading and playing piano. She has a shih tzu named Lily and a cat named Lionel.

After working as a primary care veterinarian in both the U.S. and the U.K. and completing an internship, Dr. Harry Weatherson is an emergency and critical care resident. His particular clinical interests include trauma and toxicities.

Dr. Weatherson has volunteered his veterinary skills at an outreach clinic in Botswana. He enjoys socializing with friends, traveling and exploring NYC. He has an adopted dog named Maximus.

In addition to being an emergency clinician, Dr. David Wohlstadter is a certified canine rehabilitation therapist. This therapy has been shown to improve dogs’ mobility and strength, particularly for geriatric dogs suffering from arthritic conditions and other musculoskeletal and neurologic conditions. Rehab is also particularly helpful after surgery for all ages to help dogs regain muscle mass and coordination.

Dr. Wohlstadter is married to a veterinarian and enjoys spending time with his large family, which includes many people, many dogs and many cats.

Prior vet school, Dr. Elizabeth Wolf helped conduct multiple sclerosis research at hospitals in Boston. She enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Wolf enjoys time with Casey, her golden Retriever, skiing, hiking and running.

Dr. Lindsay Wright is a small animal medicine and surgery intern.

Some of Dr. Wright’s favorite pastimes include backpacking, hiking, rock climbing and playing chess. She has a dog named Livy.

Dr. Adam Yoskowitz sees diagnostic imaging as puzzle solving, communication, case discussion, collaboration and complex imaging technology. He particularly enjoys diagnostic ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Dr. Yoskowitz shares his time away from work with Tooey, his calico domestic medium-haired cat.

Dr. Sarah Zelinski volunteered with Veterinarians Without Borders on their Goat Pass-On project in Uganda where she taught single mothers and widows how to raise goats to help them support their families. She is a small animal medicine and surgery intern.

Dr. Zelinski enjoys camping, hiking and yoga, and on free evenings, she can be found at a local concert or sampling craft beer at a neighborhood pub. Monty is her French bulldog.

Rosemary says she “sort of fell into” the field of oncology 15 years ago and found a calling to help pets defeat cancer. She is particularly interested in radiation therapy and loves using the linear accelerator. Rosemary enjoys reading, traveling, and her quirky pets, Chester Cheeto Lay and Swizzle Stix.