Katie joined the VCA family in November 2023 and now serves as the assistant hospital manager at VCA San Martin. She brings 20 years of customer service experience and more than a decade in leadership across animal welfare and human health care. She is Fear Free Certified and is currently working toward compassion fatigue certification. What connects all of her work is a love of helping people and animals, especially when they need someone willing to go the extra mile.
Katie enjoys bringing people and ideas together and creating a welcoming environment where clients feel supported, and team members feel heard, valued, and empowered. She loves watching her team grow, build confidence, and thrive. Working alongside people who share her commitment to pets and the families who love them is her favorite part of veterinary medicine.
Rescue work is especially close to Katie's heart. She has fostered animals with medical and special needs, cared for bottle babies, and helped families facing difficult times access veterinary care. She is passionate about keeping families and their beloved pets together and helping clients feel informed and confident in caring for their animals. Although she happily embraces her reputation as the hospital's "crazy cat lady," her love extends to all animals, including reptiles, rodents, and everything in between.
At home, Katie is mom to Roxanne and Allyn, plus three cats, Squid, Bug, and her 3-legged bestie, Tri-tip. She also claims her daughter's two rats, Bubonic and Plague, as her "grandbabies." Outside the hospital, she enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, reading, camping, riding PEVs, and listening to live music with her partner, Josh.
