Management Team
Affie, Practice Manager & Registered Veterinary Technician
In the unfortunate event that your pet needs to be hospitalized you can rest easy knowing that someone with Affie's experience is there watch over them. The patients are very fortunate to have someone with Affie's expertise caring for them in the treatment room. With many years of experience in emergency medicine and small animal practice, Affie is truly one of the most accomplished nurses around. In addition to her nursing skills, Affie is an excellent teacher and mentor and offers training seminars and wet labs to our nursing staff on her own time. She has a special interest in emergency medicine and trauma as well as exotic animal husbandry and medical care and she passes her knowledge on to her nursing staff in a way that is easy to understand and fun. Her career path is taking her further from nursing and more into the administrative and human resource side of veterinary medicine.
Affie loves to entertain when she has time, and she is a culinary genius!! She enjoys hosting dinner parties for her friends and neighbors where she makes culinary delights from scratch that rival the chefs on the food network.
Affie and Jeremiah went through the grueling process of becoming licensed foster parents and are looking forward to sharing their home with children in need. In the meantime, they shower their love and attention on their dogs, Phoebe, Stanley and Big Boy, 5 cats Stubby and Nubby (three-legged twins), Winston, Thomas and Fatty and various Beta fish, goldfish, a puffer fish, and Affie's 20 year old conure Pico (who is not terribly fond of Jeremiah).
Gene, Hospital Administrator
Gene keeps the hospital working on a daily basis as a business and runs all aspects of accounting, bookkeeping, IT design and management, maintenence and repair, Human Resources, Accounts Payable and Web Page design and upkeep.
Gene has a BS in chemistry from UC Davis, AS in Digital Electronics, & AS in Electronic Communication and comes to us after working 7 years as a Research Chemist for Dow Corning and Nichols Institute. Gene grew up in the Sacramento foothills near Folsom Lake and moved down to the Southern California area in 1995 to work for Dow Corning/ Nichols Institute Diagnostics. Gene and Dr. Jenny met while taking a SCUBA diving class at UC Davis and he proposed to her on a beach in Cozumel during a Dive Trip.
Gene never really gets time off since he is married to Dr. Schiebert and they run both practices together. But when he does get to relax, Gene enjoys talking about Star Trek or any Science topics, riding mountain bikes, scuba diving and water skiing! Gene and Jenny raise two girls, Allyse and Jessica, in Fallbrook Ca. They have two Greyhounds named Hycote and Daffodil, an old Chocolate Lab named Calypso, two cats named Charlie Brown and Mimzy, a 50# African Spur Tortoise named Frankie and the kids pets ( a water turtle named Nibbles and a Guinea Pig named Skunk).