Charles B. Quick, DVM, MS, Diplomate AVCR, Diagnostic Imaging Section Head, Chief of Staff grew up in Houston, attended Strake Jesuit and Marian High Schools and entered Texas A&M University in 1967. He earned a B.S in Veterinary Science in 1970 and his DVM in 1973. After one year as a radiology instructor at TAMU, he entered the residency program in diagnostic imaging at Auburn University and earned his MS in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery in 1976.

Board Certified in 1977 by the College of Veterinary Radiology, Dr. Quick served on the teaching faculty as Assistant Professor at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine until 1979, when he returned to Houston to establish Houston Veterinary Radiology Clinic, which became Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists in 2005. His interests are in diagnostic imaging, including radiology, ultrasound and CT, I-131 treatment of hyperthyroid cats, endoscopy and telemedicine.

Loretta Bubenik-Angapen, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS, Surgery Section Head grew up in Panama City, Florida and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology in 1993 and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Florida in 1997. Dr. Bubenik-Angapen accepted an internship in Medicine and Surgery and then entered the residency program in surgery at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.

She earned a Masters Degree in Veterinary Surgery at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 2001 and became boarded in the American College of Veterinary Surgery in 2002. Dr. Bubenik-Angapen is skilled at all aspects of small animal surgery but has particular interest in pain management, rehabilitation, neurosurgery, minimally invasive surgery, joint arthroplasty and wound management. She joins our TEAM in February, 2008.

Dr. Laurel Douglass graduated from Houston’s Memorial High School and attended Texas Christian University where she earned a Bachelor Degree of Business Administration. She served in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 1990 and commanded a 250-member brigade Headquarters Company in Germany. Dr. Douglass was a sales representative for Pfizer before being admitted to the College of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue University where she earned her DVM degree in 1999. She has served as an emergency veterinarian in Indianapolis from 2001 to 2005 and Houston at Veterinary Emergency Referral Group from 2005 until joining Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists in December 2007.

Dr. Jennifer Hennessey graduated Cum Laude from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine in 2005. She received her undergraduate biology degree from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2000. Dr. Hennessey has worked in Houston as an emergency clinician since graduation. She was an emergency/critical care nurse in Plano for 7 years throughout her school career. She worked in the Small Animal ICU at Texas A&M as a nurse from 2000-2004. During vet school, she also was a research assistant and co-author on emergency/critical care projects. Dr Hennessey is also a proud mother of 2 beautiful children, and has a wonderful husband who is a veterinarian as well! She has a passion for writing, and in October 2010 became recognized as a Certified Veterinary Journalist (CVJ) through the American Society of Veterinary Journalists. Dr. Hennessey joined the staff at Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists January 2010