BluePearl Pet Hospital
Spring, TX

Dr. Audrey Butts is part of our emergency medicine training for clinicians.

Dr. Butts is a wedding photographer, and she loves to travel. She and her agility-trained border collie Stella love going on adventures.

Dr. Brooke Clark enjoys all aspects of emergency and critical care medicine.

Dr. Clark enjoys time with her husband, two children and black lab Skiff. She also enjoys fitness, water sports, hiking and attending her family’s large reunions.

Dr. Daphne Dodd is part of our emergency medicine training program for clinicians. She finds wound management particularly gratifying.

Dr. Dodd enjoys dancing, hiking, cooking, traveling and creating artwork. She considers a day spent outdoors with her Plott hound Hopkins a good day.

Dr. Mike Ficklin enjoys all aspects of orthopedic and soft tissue surgery and has a special interest in minimally invasive procedures and angular limb deformities.

An outdoor enthusiast, Dr. Ficklin likes rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking, running and skiing. He and his wife have a son, and the family shares their home with two German shorthaired pointers and a golden retriever.

Dr. Courtney Gardner enjoys all aspects of emergency & critical care and is especially interested in sepsis/SIRS, transfusion medicine for coagulopathies and/or anemia, traumatic injuries and toxicities.

Outside of work, Dr. Gardner enjoys horseback riding, reading, cooking and crafting. Her family includes her husband, son and miniature schnauzer Ruby.

Dr. Megan Harris’ particular clinical interests include sepsis (a potentially life-threatening condition caused by a body’s response to infection), respiratory diseases and mechanical ventilation.

Lucy Gweniveire is Dr. Harris’ feline fur baby.

Toxicity and respiratory disease are two of Dr. Harvey's favorite types of cases to treat.

Dr. Harvey volunteers her time with a number of conservation organizations around the country and has worked with many big cat sanctuaries. She enjoys reading, cooking, baking, running and traveling. Lily is her lab mix.

Dr. Laura Hinton is particularly interested in surgical oncology, thoracoscopy, laparoscopy and orthopedic conditions such as fractures, stifle disease, hip dysplasia and total hip replacements.

Dr. Hinton is a frequent volunteer at her church. She enjoys sports, both playing and watching, gardening, running, cycling and good barbecues. Reading fiction is a secret luxury for her as well as family time with her husband, son and daughter. Family pets include a can and an Australian shepherd.

Dr. Paige Kail’s favorite emergency cases include gastric dilatation volvulus, “your pet ate what?" foreign body removals, lacerations, polytrauma and management of diabetic ketoacidosis.

Dr. Kail enjoys yoga, cooking and family time. She and her husband have two dogs, a Vizsla and a miniature dachshund, who they enjoy hiking with.

Dr. Courtney Meason-Smith is a small animal medicine and surgery intern. With her combined doctorate in pathobiology, she has a specific clinical interest in canine allergic skin conditions with secondary fungal infections.

Dr. Meason-Smith’s hobbies include cooking, gardening and home brewing. She and her husband have one daughter and two dogs.

Dr. Zachary Ragland is part of our emergency medicine training program for clinicians and particularly enjoys treating respiratory emergencies.

An outdoor enthusiast, Dr. Ragland especially likes to hike, kayak and camp.

A board-certified large animal surgeon, Dr. Marilyn Rumbaugh is now an emergency clinician and finds it especially rewarding. Her interests include wound management and toxicology.

Dr. Rumbaugh’s hobbies include horseback riding and CrossFit. She has four dogs and two horses.

When it comes to emergency cases, Dr. Kathryn Salcetti thinks “the weirder, the better.” Her particular clinical interests include toxicities, hypoglycemia and acute abdomens.

Dr. Salcetti enjoys weightlifting, yoga, racquetball step aerobics, travel, baking and gardening. Aedan and Charlie are her Siamese mix cats.

Dr. Matthew Schmidt's particular clinical interests include gastroenterology, endocrine disease, calcium disorders, liver disease and others.

Dr. Schmidt has been an active volunteer with a wildlife refuge and enjoys golf, fishing, church and family activities. His family includes his wife, four children and three dogs.

Dr. Elizabeth Snyder is specifically interested in the use of novel chemotherapeutics, combination chemotherapy and innovative treatments such as immunotherapy and targeted therapy. She finds designing treatment plans for pets and their families especially rewarding.

Dr. Snyder enjoys travelling and spending time with friends and family. She has a husband, a son and two dogs.

Dr. Laurie Stephens' particular clinical interests include sepsis, anaphylaxis, polytrauma, and severe gastrointestinal disease.

Dr. Stephens enjoys working out, cooking and time with her husband and two boys. The family has a standard poodle named Frederic and a Rhodesian ridgeback/black mouth cur mix named Dutch.

Amanda loves that the veterinary industry is continually pushing for higher standards of care, like low stress handling of patients. She says that emergency medicine fits her perfectly, and she loves one-on-one intensive nursing care. Some of her favorite cases to treat include sepsis, parvovirus, feline urinary obstructions and mechanical ventilator patients. She loves being outdoors with her husband and two rescued dogs. The family also includes a cat.