Meet Our Veterinary Team

Meet the Veterinarians & Team of Wilvet Salem! We’re pleased to provide exceptional vet care for your pets!

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We are solely dedicated to your pet’s care! We look forward to getting to know you, and we hope you’ll take the time to scroll down and get to know us.

Meet Our Doctors

Dan Lewer, DVM

CEO and Owner

Emily Kalenius, DVM

Chief Medical Officer and Owner

About Emily
Emily attended Oregon State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, graduating first in her class in 2008. A private practice small animal internship in Los Angeles rounded out her training. Emily worked for 8 years in private practice as an associate veterinarian, mostly in emergency and critical care. In 2017 she partnered with Dr Dan Lewer to purchase Corvallis’ Willamette Veterinary Hospital. During that time Emily developed and implemented an Veterinary Intern Program, which satiated her interests as a lifelong learner and teacher.

Since then, she has partnered to design, recruit, and execute the startup of two other Wilvet emergency clinics — Salem and South.

Her professional interests include, emergency medicine, cardiology, internal medicine and mentorship of new graduates.

As a longtime Pacific Northwest resident, Emily enjoys an active, outdoors lifestyle. After running collegiate cross country in Santa Barbara while completing degrees in Biology and Chemistry, she has since naturally gravitated towards trail ultramarathons and mountaineering. Calling Corvallis, Oregon home, she now enjoys backpacking and hiking with her two daughters and husband, and skiing in the winter.

Kristin Peterson, DVM

Medical Director and Owner

Brittany Gardner

Veterinarian

Dr. Ebert

Crystal Ebert

Veterinarian

About Crystal
Crystal decided to work in this field because she is happy to be able to help pet families through any obstacles. Her favorite part about working here is practicing high-quality medicine with a compassionate, caring team. In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing video games, tabletop role-playing games, and hanging out with friends, family, and her own critters at home. Something she has learned since working here is abdominal ultrasounds.

Emi Menzen

Veterinarian

Natalia Mikhaleva

Veterinarian

Anna Wepprich

Veterinarian

About Anna
Anna decided to work in this field because she loves the variety of cases, and the people she gets to meet and work with every day. Her favorite part about working here is working with the amazing team. In her free time, she enjoys playing with her toddler and senior dog. Something she has learned since working here is facts about porcupines and salmon poisoning.

Lea Hayes

Veterinarian

About Lea
Lea decided to work in this field because she loves being able to provide comfort and care to animals and their owners during what can be a very scary and stressful time. Her favorite part about working here is the continued commitment to providing the best medicine to patients. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, reading, and riding her horse. Something she has learned since working here is learning how to provide the best medicine and how to provide that to patients.
Wilvet Vet Team - Dr Nicole

Nicole Rando

Veterinarian

About Nicole
Nicole decided to work in this field because she loves not knowing what her day is going to look like and that every day is different in emergency medicine. In her free time, she enjoys spending as much time outsides as possible, whether it is rain or shine.

Meet Our Administrative Staff

Amanda Stoudenmeyer

Hospital Administrator

About Amanda
Amanda decided to work in this field because she wanted to be a part of an industry she has always valued. Her favorite part about working here is watching staff grow into their roles and expand their skills. In her free time, she enjoys entertaining her own animals and working on her old house.

Danielle Harris

Medical Operations Manager

About Danielle
Danielle decided to work in this field because she has always wanted to work with animals ever since she was young. The simple idea of “helping animals” is still her driving force today. Her favorite part about working here is the team of cohesive group of caring and wonderful professionals, which enables collaboration to provide the best medicine and nursing care possible for our patients. In her free time, she enjoys riding horses, and the nature Oregon has to offer. She also enjoys doing those activities with her children, watching them learn and grow. Something she has learned while working here is that something is new every day, which is what inspires her about emergency medicine and critical care with such an amazing team.

Kylie Revelle

Inventory Manager

Meet Our Nurses

Mandi Gladysz

Veterinary Nurse

Janene Stovall

Certified Vet Tech

Jason Glick

Veterinary Nurse

About Jason
Jason decided to work in this field because he was working at an AKC Certified Labrador Retriever Breeding and Training facility where he fostered a 2-year-old Lab named Lexi. He was always plagued with hotspots and skin/allergy type issues. While he fostered her, he helped her recover from her health issues and then started doing basic obedience with her. He was then sold to a couple in Santa Cruz, California, and began her new career working with kids with special needs. He was blown away at how amazing and how much a Labrador Retriever can do. They are amazing. After moving to Oregon, Jason found a lot of employment opportunities in Veterinary Medicine and devoted himself to obtaining a job as a Kennel Technician and has been in this field ever since.

Tinasha Souza

Veterinary Nurse

Kylee Barrett

Kylee Barrett

Vet Assistant

Cassie Cosler

Veterinary Nurse

Jessie Stewart

Vet Assistant

Alyssa Petermen

Certified Vet Tech

About Alyssa
Alyssa decided to work in this field because she loves animals. Her favorite part of working here is her environment. In her free time, she enjoys hiking with her dogs, horseback riding, and being in nature. Something she has learned since working here is CT and jugular catheter placement.

Leilani Chock

Hospital Aid

Marisa Varga

Veterinary Nurse

About Marisa

Marisa finds fulfillment in veterinarian medicine. She loves the criticals and surgeries the most. She enjoys the team as everyone is close and they all feel like family. In her free time, Marisa likes to hike, camp, go to the gym, and dance. 

Mimi Rasouli

Certified Vet Tech

Heather Roarke

Veterinary Nurse

Deborah Easterhoff

Certified Vet Tech

Lisa Carroll

Veterinary Nurse

Athena Gorsuch

Veterinary Nurse

About Athena
Athena decided to work in this field because she always wanted to help and care for critters. Her favorite part about working here is the amazing people she works with, the crazy cases they get on the clock, and the opportunity to learn about a new disorder, breed, or case each night. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her pets, riding her horse, and being around friends and family. Something she has learned while working here is her genuine love for animals because the more she works here, the more she finds out about them.

Tabitha Lamb

Overnight ICU Assistant and ER Nurse

Kristene Fast

 

About Kristene
Kristene decided to work in this field because she loves animals and enjoys the challenge of helping creatures that can’t tell you what’s wrong. Her favorite part of working here is the emergency clinic which is fast-paced while still providing quality care to patients. In her free time, she enjoys crocheting and spinning yarn. Something she has learned since working here is placing nasogastric tubes and jugular catheters.
Joleigh

Joleigh Miller

Overnight ER Assistant

About Joleigh
Joleigh decided to work in this field because she admires the intensity of the field, the wonderful patients, and the opportunity to be a constant learner. Her favorite part about working here is the community, and family everyone has built in the hospital. In her free time, she enjoys exercising, reading, and spending time outside. Something she has learned since working here is practicing skills of empathy and have seen the importance it plays in working with families and critical cases.
Jess

Jess Lawrence

ER Nurse

About Jess

Jess enjoys ER medicine and likes saving critically injured animals. She loves the bond between humans and animals and likes to learn about veterinary medicine. She especially likes the culture and the mindset of the doctors and their willingness to work with clients. In her free time, Jess likes to listen to audiobooks and clean!

Alyssa Premo

Vet Assistant

About Alyssa

Alyssa has always wanted to be a vet. She has a love of fur animals and medicine. Her special interest includes nutrition, training, homeopathic medicine, acupuncture, and chiropractic. She loves how everyone at work treats her like family. In her free time, she likes to do outdoor activities, knitting, crocheting, and spending time with her fiance.

Bonnie Corbett

Certified Vet Tech

About Bonnie
Bonnie decided to work in this field because she was born on a ranch, and since she was a child, she knew her passion was in animal medicine. Throughout her life, she has had amazing experience in many fields of zoology and veterinary medicine. Every day she goes to “work,” she feels like she is living her dream. Her favorite part about working here is learning new medicines and techniques every day and seeing her patients get the quality care they deserve. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, kids, and grandson. She enjoys road trips and flying as she loves being spontaneous. Something she has learned since working here are new techniques such as jug catheters, anesthetic, and wound care. She has learned that everything she has done in this field has led her to Wilvet.

Miguel Pedro

Vet Assistant

Kesi Thissell

Vet Assistant

About Kesi

Kesi enjoys taking care of animals in need, especially during cre=itical momen=nts. She likes to spend her time in the ICU and CSR. Eventually, she would like to go into ER. She enjoys the friendly staff members and how they work with you to learn new things. In her free time, she enjoys sleeping, cooking, and baking. 

Meet Our Supporting Staff

Bertha Mendez

Lead Client Service Representative

About Bertha
Bertha decided to work in this field because she has loved animals since she was young. Her favorite part about working here is getting to help or save lives every day. In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking, and going on walks/ hikes. Something Bertha has learned since working here is that pets are like family, and owners will go to great lengths to help or save them.

Shannon Conners

Client Service Representative

Cheyanne Logan

Client Service Representative

Sarah Beskow

Client Service Representative

Stetson

Client Service Representative

About Stetson

Stetson loves being a part of everything surgery and loves his team. Stetson enjoys spending time with family in the great outdoors.