Dr. Rebecca Padro was born in Michigan in the same year that her father graduated from veterinary school. She grew up in Plymouth Meeting with a myriad of pets including dogs, cats, gerbils, horses, fish, lizards, and a snake.

As a teenager, her first job was working at Montgomery Animal Hospital in the boarding kennel. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in biopsychology from Boston College, Dr. Padro lived in Portland, Oregon before returning to the East Coast to attend the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. John Schrader grew up in an Army Family and lived in many different places around the United States and the world. Both his father and grandfather were graduates of West Point.

He received his undergraduate degree, a BA in English, from the University of Michigan in 1968 with secondary school education certification. He graduated with honors in 1977 from the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Amy Marks was born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania. There were always a wide variety of pets in her household as she was growing up, including cats, dogs, hamsters, fish, rabbits, turtles, and birds. She pursued her veterinary passion early in life by working first as a kennel attendant in high school and then as a veterinary assistant through college.

Dr. Louise LaNunziata has been practicing small animal medicine in the greater Philadelphia area since 2007. Her professional interests include surgery, orthopedics, and preventative medicine. She attended college at the University of Delaware where she graduated with degrees in animal science and biology. She studied veterinary medicine at Ross University on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts and graduated in 2007 after externships at the University of Missouri and University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Tara Durkin grew up right around the corner in Oreland, PA and used to bring her animals to MAH as a child. This is what inspired her to become a veterinarian! She got her BS in Biology from University of the Sciences in Philly in 2017 and then went on to St. George’s University School of Veterinary Medicine and graduated in January of 2021. She has three lovely kitties at home, two boys named Azriel and Cassian, and a girl named Ginger. In her spare time she loves to be out in nature, doing activities like walking through rivers and hunting for rocks.