Dr. Evelyn Sagastume is the founder and owner of Petsadena Animal Hospital. She was raised in Southern California but left for a time to study at the University of California, Davis, where she graduated with a Bachelor’s in Animal Science & Management. She went on to receive her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the same institution. Her follow up training to veterinary school includes a year-long internship in small animal surgery and medicine, which she performed at Advanced Veterinary Care Center in Lawndale, CA.

Originally from Sacramento, CA, Dr. Michelle Tieu graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 2011 with a major in general biology and minor in biologic anthropology. She worked at a small animal/exotics practice in La Jolla, CA just before starting her studies at Western University of Health Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine. She received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine with Phi Zeta honors in 2016.

Born and raised in Southern California, Dr. Eileen Reyna left her career in the fashion industry to pursue veterinary medicine – her true passion.

In preparation for entrance to veterinary school, she attended Pasadena City College and Cal Poly Pomona. In 2013, she earned her doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Western University of Health Sciences. Since then, she has gained experience and knowledge working in Small Animal Practice for the past seven years.

California is the seventh and final place called home for Dr. Budde who was born and raised in the Midwest, attended college in New England, and then spent many years in Tennessee and Hawai’i.

Dr. Budde’s pathway into veterinary medicine was non-traditional. She graduated from Smith College in 2000 with a degree in physics. After completing internships in both physics and engineering she realized that was not her passion and instead applied the problem-solving skills learned from those experiences to the business world.