BluePearl Pet Hospital
Spring, TX

Dr. Jenna Ashton likes problem solving and diagnosing challenging cases. Her favorite are renal and gastrointestinal, and she enjoys ultrasounds and endoscopy.

Dr. Ashton loves traveling, yoga and outdoor activities like hiking, skiing, backpacking and paddle boarding. She’s also a Florida Gators football fan.

Dr. Nathan Bodnar has a passion for treating animal toxicities and trauma cases.

Dr. Bodnar’s favorite pastime is spending time with his wife, three daughters, five dogs and two cats. He also enjoys swimming, running and cooking.

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.

A fan of both the medicine and surgical aspects of emergency medicine, Dr. Nicole Garcia Stickney particularly enjoys managing wounds and emergency surgical procedures.

Dr. Garcia Stickney stays busy with her husband and two kids. She also enjoys singing, hiking and working out. The family pets include Scartlett, a redtick/redbone coonhound, Obi, a long-haired dachshund, cats Riley and Milo, bearded dragon Henrietta, and Oscar the rat.

Dr. Christina Gentry likes the striking clinical presentations in dermatology and that a number of internal diseases can be diagnosed through skin lesions. Her favorite procedures are intradermal allergy testing and video otoscopy. She also enjoys diagnosing and treating sterile nodular diseases and cutaneous auto-immune diseases and finds working up feline skin diseases particularly gratifying.

Dr. Gentry enjoys hiking, baking and gardening. She and her husband have one daughter and a number of pets: Corgi/German shepherd mix Bonnie Parker, Corgi/Australian shepherd mix Charlie Chaplin, bichon frise Ben Franklin, and cats Amelia Earhart and Josephine.

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. Curry Keoughan became interested in orthopedics and surgery in middle school and still considers orthopedic surgery his favorite. Board certified in large animal surgery, he has received extensive training in the field, been a clinical instructor at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, and worked around the world to include being the equine veterinarian for the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and a senior surgeon in Singapore. Dr. Keoughan is currently in a small animal surgery fellowship.

Dr. Keoughan enjoys sailing, reading, renovating his house and building things. He and his wife, who is also a veterinarian, have three daughters and one son. The family has three dogs, Roxy, Sandy and Lady, and cats Halo and Tinsyl.

Originally from northwest Houston, Dr. McDonald was happy to return to the area. During veterinary school, she worked in the anesthesia department of the university’s teaching hospital.

Dr. McDonald enjoys eating Tex-Mex, baking, reading, knitting and most activities that give her an excuse to be outdoors.

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. Justin Payne is one of the cofounders of North Houston Veterinary Services.

A board-certified large animal surgeon, Dr. Marilyn Rumbaugh is now part of our emergency medicine training program for clinicians.

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

Prior to coming to BluePearl, Dr. Rebecca Salazar was an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Oklahoma State University. Her particular clinical interests include novel approaches to providing analgesia; to include peripheral nerve blocks, epidural catheters and tailor-made analgesic plans for surgical, oncologic, trauma and internal medicine patients.

Dr. Salazar likes all outdoor activities as well as traveling and spending time with her family and two dogs: John Wayne, her beagle, and Sinclaire, her King Charles cavalier.

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. 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.