The Snohomish Station Animal Hospital team of skilled veterinarians welcomes you to our practice. Proudly serving the Snohomish area. At Snohomish Station Animal Hospital, it is our daily privilege to provide quality vet care to your cherished pet, with compassion and competence. We hope to ensure a positive impact on our patients, pet owners and the local community.
Steven Weinrauch, MDVM
Dr. Weinrauch practices at all of our locations. He aims to continuously improve our client and patient experience. Previously he served as Partner Veterinarian and Chief of Staff at a large Washington hospital. His expertise and innovative ideas have led to the creation and launch of our hospitals. He has a passion for giving back to help pets in need. He is active in the rescue community and is Co-Founder of Second Chance Dog Rescue (www.2ndchancerescue.org). Dr. Weinrauch's wife is also a veterinarian and they have a toddler son. They currently share their home with five dogs.
Karen Wichert, DVM
Karen Wichert DVM is a Seattle native and received her Bachelors and
Doctorate training at Washington State University. Following graduation
in 1989 she practiced in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR areas for
the next 10 years. At the repeated bidding of a family member, she moved
to sunny southern California where she joined a practice in Laguna
Niguel, CA for 12 years. In the fall of 2011 she returned back to the
beautiful Northwest. She is passionate about preventative medicine,
owner education, and enjoys working up internal medicine cases and
performing surgery. She enjoys developing long term relationships with
clients and pets and providing gentle and compassionate care throughout
the different phases of their lives. When not at work, Karen enjoys a
variety of outdoor sports, traveling, and spending time with family.
Valerie Shearer, DVM
Dr. Val Shearer is originally from Southern Arizona. She attended the University of Arizona, in Tucson for her bachelor's degree in Veterinary Science. Afterward, she pursued her DVM degree at the University of California, Davis, graduating in 2010. She then spent her first year out of school completing a small animal internship at the Veterinary Specialty Center of Tucson in Arizona focusing on internal medicine, neurology, surgery and emergency/critical care. Dr. Shearer moved to the Seattle area in the summer of 2011.
Dr. Shearer has interests in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease and Emergency Medicine - although she prefers to be a generalist and enjoys almost every aspect of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Shearer enjoys the arts, food and travel, but spending time with her family is her favorite pastime. Recently, she has thoroughly enjoyed hiking and camping in the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. She lives with her husband, Sean, a chihuahua (Fiona), a large mixed breed dog (Diego) and two kitties (Madison and Moose). Dr. Shearer is very proud to say that all of her furry family members were animal shelter and rescue adoptees.
William Riley, DVM
I was born in Longview, WA, and moved from Hillsboro, OR to Texas in 1983. In Texas, I met my wife, Kayla, found my career, had 2 children, Evan and Krista, and rescued our current 2 Labrador retrievers, Buddy and Bear, along the way. I started work at Preston Park Animal Hospital, a well-established AAHA certified practice in January 2002 and 6 months later the clinic was purchased by VCA. After 8 years, my home sickness needed to be remedied and we made the choice to relocate to Silverdale, WA in August 2010, after I accepted the Medical Director position at VCA Olympic Animal Hospital and remained there until December 2012.
Professionally, my passion in customer service and providing the highest quality care to the client four legged furry companions. I always strive to be on the cutting edge of medicine and regularly attend continuing education.
Outside of veterinary medicine, I am an avid snowboarder, love to hike in the off season and am currently writing a book about reconnecting with my Finnish roots after a school project my son had a few years back and then finding them through Ancestry.com and Facebook.
Jennifer Kissinger, DVM
Jennifer graduated from The Ohio State University in 1992 and has been practicing small animal medicine ever since. Prior to Main Street Animal Hospital Dr. Kissinger owned and operated a full service animal hospital in Massachusetts but missed the Northwest. She has extensive training and a special interest in: laser surgery, ultrasound, dentistry, soft tissue and orthopedic surgery. She lives with her 6 year old son Justin and three cats - Lyle, Coconut and Ice Cream.
