Charles B. Quick
DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVR; Chief of Staff

Dr. Charles B. Quick 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.

Royce Roberts
DVM, MS, DACVR, Director of Radiation Therapy

Dr. Royce Roberts grew up in Austin, Texas, attended Texas A&M University on a golf scholarship and earned his DVM there in 1967. After 3 years in a prominent Houston practice, he entered a residency program at the College of Veterinary Medicine at TAMU. His last year of residency was fulfilled at Auburn University and he became Board Certified in the College of Veterinary Radiology in 1974.

Dr. Roberts practiced in Austin, TX before becoming Radiology Department Head at the University of Tennessee Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in 1975. He then spent 18 years at the University of Georgia, where much of his time was devoted to radiation therapy.

Dr. Roberts now splits time with Sugar Land Veterinary Specialists as the radiation oncologist and his Hill Country ranch. His expertise is in diagnostic radiology and cancer treatment with ionizing radiation, including gamma, x-ray, Strontium-90 and iodine-131, and client communication concerning expected outcome of treatment and possible side effects.

Michael J. O’Neill
MS, DABR, DABMP, Licensed Medical Physicist

Michael O’Neill brings a treasure of knowledge to our Radiation Therapy Section. From Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. O’Neill earned B. A.’s in Physics and Biology in 1980, trained in Radiation Therapy Safety at the University of Wisconsin in 1982 and received a Master of Health Physics degree in Radiation Health Physics from The Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health and Hygiene in 1985. He has been employed as the medical physicist at The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Radiation Oncology, and at Houston’s St. Joseph and Park Plaza Hospitals, and as a Consulting Medical Physicist for Cheung Laboratories Inc and North Loop Radiation Therapy Center, Houston. Mr. O’Neill, working closely with Dr. Roberts and Dr. Quick, provides the treatment planning for our radiation therapy patients where IMRT and conformal therapy are needed for the best results.

Laurel B. Douglass
DVM, Emergency and Critical Care Section Head

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.

Loretta Bubenik-Angapen
DVM, MS, DACVS, Surgical Section Head

Dr. Loretta-Angapen 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. Andy Novosad
DVM, DACVIM, Oncology Section Head

Dr. Andy Novosad is a native Houstonian and graduate of Memorial High School.  He pursued his undergraduate education and earned his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 1999 from Louisiana State University.  The Animal Medical Center in New York City, with its high caseload, was his choice for internship in small animal medicine and surgery.   Dr. Novosad remained at The Animal Medical Center in their medical oncology residency program, which he completed in 2002.  After successfully completing the Board Examination, he was awarded Diplomate status in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Oncology Specialty.  Dr. Novosad then moved back to Texas, accepting a position as Head of the Oncology Department at the Animal Diagnostic Clinic in Dallas.  His professional interests include lymphoma, leukemia, melanoma and mammary tumors.  He is the author of many scientific articles and book chapters on a variety of oncological topics.

David Peterson, DVM
Emergency Critical Care Veterinarian

Dr. Peterson attended Texas A&M University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science in 2001.  While in veterinary school at TAMU he worked in the Trace Elements Research Lab, the Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Toxicology Dept at the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.  He earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree in 2006.  Dr. Peterson was an intern at Veterinary Emergency Referral Group Incorporated and a staff emergency veterinarian at Houston Veterinary Services, Animal Emergency Clinic - Loop 610 before joining our Emergency Critical Care Team.