BluePearl Pet Hospital
Renton, WA

Dr. Laura Ahlgrim loves emergency and critical care medicine and is especially interested in anesthesia.

Dr. Ahlgrim lives with her two cats, Pizza and Yeti, and a brindle pit bull named Ginger. She enjoys hiking, backpacking and yoga, and volunteers with the Seattle Youth Garden Works.

Dr. Megan Breit’s top priorities are the quality of life of her patients and ensuring their comfort. She is also passionate about diagnosing as well as treating cancer with traditional therapies such as chemotherapy and exploring new and better cancer therapies. While earning her master’s degree, she did research on a new therapy for canine melanoma.

Dr. Lauren Devine finds it gratifying to treat and manage chronic urinary disease, gastrointestinal disease and endocrine diseases such as hyperadrenocortism, but she especially loves laser ablation therapy and diagnosing conditions with endoscopic procedures.

Dr. Devine's favorite pastime is reading. She also loves to travel and hike with her dogs, Scout and Halley. Dragon, Wolf and Yossarian are her three cats.

Dr. Jeff Douglas’ particular clinical interests include cardiac disease and endocrine disease. He also enjoys soft tissue surgery resulting from injuries such as bite wounds and trauma.

Dr. Douglas loves watching and playing sports, especially hockey, soccer and basketball. He also enjoys hiking, canoeing, camping and bike riding. Jack is his mixed breed dog.

Dr. Mitchell Fults' clinical interests include shock resuscitation, sepsis, pain management and trauma.

Dr. Fults likes cooking, building furniture and drinking beer. He and his wife have a terrier mix named Rogue, a cat named Sophie, and three turtles that live in an outside pond.

Dr. Beth Guerra has a background in exotic animal medicine and enjoys treating these pets along with cats and dogs. Her favorite cases are trauma patients, and she is also part of our team that treats hemodialysis cases.

Dr. Guerra and her husband are collecting an assortment of small, mostly three-legged dogs. She enjoys anything culinary and spends her days off kayaking and reading.

Dr. Pete Hetrick has special interests in emergency surgery and internal medicine cases.

Dr. Hetrick spends time with his wife, three sons, and Australian shepherd Mars. If you can catch up to him, he might be running, biking, telemark skiing, backpacking, alpine climbing or fly-fishing.

Dr. Diana Jooste worked with both large and small animals in Colombia and Brazil before practicing in the U.S. Her particular clinical interests include anesthesia and treating toxicity and wound cases.

Dr. Jooste loves running and hiking with her Australian cattle dog Jaks. She also likes to learn new languages, and in addition to English, she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Dr. Sacha Malkowski enjoys all aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Malkowski loves to travel and has seen over half the Seven Wonders of the World. She has two cats, Trigonometry (Trig), a brown tabby, and Dr. Lance Sweets (Sweets), a tuxedo.

Skilled in all aspects of emergency and critical care medicine, Dr. Andrea Oncken’s favorite procedures are emergency surgeries, but she also enjoys complicated illnesses with multiple abnormalities, such as heatstroke, which affects all organs of the body. Other interests include toxicology cases, challenging endocrine cases and multi-traumas. Dr. Oncken loves sharing her expertise in the field and has taught a two-week course in the subject every year for over 15 years at Oregon State University’s veterinary teaching hospital.

Dr. Oncken volunteers teaching a K9 handler course to police officers and other first responders. An avid runner, she also volunteers with Girls on the Run, a program to help young girls start running. Other favorite pastimes include hiking, fitness, traveling, music and playing or running with her yellow lab, Diego.

Dr. Hannah Poole particularly enjoys treating sepsis, trauma and coagulation disorders.

Dr. Poole travels at every opportunity. She also likes hiking and exploring Seattle with her retired racing greyhound Braleigh.

Dr. Weh finds satisfaction in the managing the complexities of veterinary surgery and is especially interested in minimally invasive surgery, trauma, and fracture repair.

Shannan chose her field because of the bonds she forms with clients and patients, often with chronic conditions. Her particular interests include endocrine, immune-mediated, and chronic kidney diseases. Shannan has worked as a trail veterinary volunteer for the Iditarod Veterinary Medical Team and has three huskies of her own, in addition to a tabby cat with extra toes.