Meet Our Staff

Stan Slaton

Stan SlatonStan is a California native and Vietnam veteran currently living in Channel Islands Marina. Stan provides accounting, marketing and overall business support... Read more

Jennifer Hammervold-Chung

Jennifer Hamervold-ChungJennifer is a California native and received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Brittany Lampman

Brittany LampmanBrittany is a California native and is currently working on a Biology degree with plans to attend veterinary school in the future. Read more

Heather Fukumoto

Heather FukumotoHeather graduated from Los Angeles Pierce College in June 2009 with an A.S. degree in Veterinary Technology.
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Erika Bode

Erika BodeErika is a Southern California native. After studying at Moorpark College and UC Santa Barbara, majoring in Marine Biology, she ultimately decided that Veterinary Technology was to be her career. Read more

Diana Silva

Diana SilvaDiana was born in Orange County, CA and received her BS in psychology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2005. Read more

Birgit Scholz

Birgit ScholzBirgit has worked for Westlake Village Animal Hospital for 10 years as a Vet Tech, and she is also a successful dog trainer. Read more

Clara Keener

Clara KeenerClara grew up in Port Hueneme and moved to Thousand Oaks after graduating from Cal Poly Pomona in 2007 with a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology.
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Brett Adelman

Brett AdelmanBrett has lived in Thousand Oaks, California since he was born. Rocky is one of the four animals in his home including two other dogs and his fish Fang
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Cherise McCarthy

Cherise McCarthyCherise has lived in Moorpark her entire life. She graduated from Moorpark High School in 2011. She will be attending Moorpark College in the fall and will major in Animal Science so she can transfer to vet school in the future Read more

Tara Barrows

Tara BarrowsTara enjoys her free time with her dogs Leo and Mr. Woobi and her parrots Chloe and Merlyn.
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Dave Benveniste

Dave BenvenisteDave was born in the Big Apple, lived overseas and then moved to the City of Angels in 1974, where he joined the US Navy and traveled around the world. Read more

Gail Bledsoe

Gail BledsoeShe has worked for Westlake Village Animal Hospital for 1 & 1/2 years now as a receptionist and loves her job! Read more

Brisa Hopkins

Brisa HopkinsBrisa's loved animals ever since and grew up with two cats, four dogs, three horses, twelve chickens, and a pot belly pig named Winnie. Read more

Kim Frizzelle

Kim FrizzeleShe has worked for Westlake Village Animal Hospital for 16 years, on Saturdays only. Kim has 2 Labs "Melody" & "Zero", cats "Luke", "Pearl" & "Gracie", and Dwarf Hamsters "Hazel" & "Norma".
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Chandra Fardig

Chandra FardigChandra is from Simi Valley and currently attends Moorpark College. She plans on transferring to California State University, Channel Islands for a degree in nursing. Read more

Shannon Tobin

Shannon TobinShannon was born and raised in The Conejo Valley. Where her love of animals started young; Shannon's home was always filled if different type of critters. Read more

Natasha Rendon

Dr SlatonNatasha was born and raised in Orange County, California. At age 5 she received at Basset Hound named Wendy and fell in love with animals ever since. Read more

Carlos Rodriguez

Dr SlatonCarlos has been working as both receptionist and veterinary technician for the past four years even before joining Westlake Village Animal Hospital.
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