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Doctor

Dr. Alan M. Coren, DVM

Dr. Alan M. Coren, a graduate of Cornell University with Phi Zeta honors in 1980, is our director and senior staff member. Dr. Coren began our practice in May 1982 and under his guidance, we have grown to become one of Long Island's largest, most respected veterinary practices. He is an active member of the AVMA, NYSVMS, LIVMA, and AAHA, amongst other professional organizations. An accomplished surgeon and medical doctor, he leads our group through his desire to always provide the best possible care for his patients and service for their owners. Dr. Coren is an avid sailor, skier, mountaineer, cyclist, and fitness enthusiast. He lives in Dix Hills with his wife, Karen, two sons, Jared and Jesse, two dogs and two cats.

Seo Hee An, DVM

Dr. An was valedictorian of her Veterinary College in Seoul, Korea and spent a post-graduate year at Cornell University where she obtained accreditation and licensure in New York.
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Dr. Niccole E. Bruno, DVM

Originally from Queens, NY. At the age of 12 Niccole knew she wanted to become a veterinarian. Graduated Magna cum laude from Tuskegee University in AL with a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science in 2002. She obtained her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University in 2006. Upon graduation, completed a small animal medicine and surgery internship at Long Island Veterinary Specialists in Plainview, NY. Dr. Bruno enjoys spending time with her family and friends, movies, crafts and reading. Dr. Bruno has 2 dogs: Fendi (Peke-poo) and Louie (Maltese) and 3 Siamese cats.

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Dr. Jack A. Heller, DVM

Dr. Heller, a 1995 graduate from Tufts University Veterinary School, is originally from Greenlawn. Dr. Heller spent a year in private practice before completing a small animal medical and surgical post graduate internship at the University of Missouri. In September 1997, he joined West Hills Animal Hospital and found that his advanced university training was right in line with our practice's progressive attitude. Dr. Heller's quest for excellence helps keep us on the cutting edge of all the latest technology.

Christine Loughrey, DVM

Born and raised in Queens, NY Dr. Loughrey received her Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Hofstra University. She obtained her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University in 2007. Following graduation from Cornell Dr. Loughrey performed a rotating small animal internship in medicine and surgery at Oradell Animal Hospital in Paramus, New Jersey. She has three wonderful cats and two very mischievous ferrets. She loves the outdoors and enjoys hiking, running, reading and baking in her spare time. Dr. Loughery grew up in Hollis Hills, Queens and is a 2007 graduate of Cornell University. Dr. Loughrey compled her formal internship at Oradell Animal Hospital in New Jersey.

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Dr. Jennifer N. Reth, DVM

Dr. Jennifer Reth earned both her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from Cornell University. After one year of small animal practice in Syracuse, NY, Dr. Reth returned to her native Long Island. Since joining the West Hills staff in 2002, her dedication to continuing professional education, meeting client needs, and caring tirelessly for patients have made her a strong asset to the hospital. Her special interests include gastrointestinal & endocrine disease and preventive medicine. When not working, Dr. Reth enjoys hiking, horseback riding, politics, and attending church with her family.

Matthew B. Steinberg, DVM

Dr. Steinberg is a native Long Islander and graduate of Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He performed a rotating small animal surgery and medicine internship at the Animal Meidcal Center in Manhattan and spent the following year as an emergency veterinarian at New York City Veterinary Specialists. He spent another 2 years practicing high quality veterinay medicine at Park East Animal Hospital in Manhattan. Dr. Steinberg has a fantastic wife Suzi, amazing boy/girl twins, Daniel and Hannah, and two cats, Samantha and Jake (also twins, being from the same litter). His special interests in veterinary medicine include neurology, emergency medicine, and especially being the bridge between owners and pets helping people keep their pets happy and healthy.

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Management

Tracey D. , LVT

Tracey joined the practice in October of 1985, asssisting the doctors on housecalls. After a brief hiatus to start a family she returned to work part time and is now the weekend manager . She has a degree in Animal Science from SUNY Farmingdale.

Lauri G.

Lauri has been at West Hills since Feb. 2004. When she is not at the front desk assisting our clients, she is busy taking care of her own full house.....a loving husband, 3 children, a dog, a cat and her lovable guinea pig. Lauri recently acquired her certification in nursing and plans on continuing her education in the nursing profession.

Ghislaine

Ghislaine is a manager at the Commack office. She has been at West Hills for eight years, and has worked in animal hospitals for over 20 years. She has also been actively involved in animal rescue for over 25 years. Her family has lived with everything from horses to teddy bear hamsters, but presently has several cats and a Pembroke Corgi.

Kristina W.

After 20 years of being a devoted equestrian Kristina had developed a career debilitating injury. Her passion for riding, competing and being around horses has not gone away as she hopes to return to riding someday in the near future. On leave from here initial career and still wanted to be around animals, Kristina landed here at West Hills Animal Hospital where she has been since November of 2003. Kristina truly enjoys her work at West Hills and loves being a part of such a wonderful group of individuals. Kristina holds a degree in Equine Science and Management. She has two wonderful dogs, Mr. Hooch Pugsly and Soulden, she also enjoys boating, skiing and photography.

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Technician

Sabrina A.

Sabrina joined West Hills Animal hospital in May of 2005 after attending a veterinary conference at Suffolk Community College. Currently Sabrina is attending Sufffolk Community College in the Veterinary Tech program while working overnight shifts at West Hills. Sabrina has 6 cats, 2 dogs, a turtle, 3 hamsters, and a rabbit, Sabrina is also part of the spay and release program when her time permits.

Emily B. ,LVT

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Kelly B., LVT

Kelly is an important member of our talented nursing staff covering a variety of important shifts.
Laura C. , LVT

Laura is a recent Graduate of Suffolk Community for the Vet Tech program. Laura has moved from the front end being a receptionist to now working in the Treatment area as a LVT.

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John E.
Heather F. , LVT

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Danielle G. , LVT

Danielle has been working with us since early 2005. When she can find some time to she likes to ride and help train ponies. As of right now she has 5 cats, 2 dogs and a snake.

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Laurie H. , LVT

Laurie joined the team at the West Hills Animal Hospital in September, 2006. She graduated from the SCCC Veterinary Science Technology Program in 2003, and spent three years at Long Island Veterinary Specialists in Plainview. Her family currently includes three Shetland Sheepdogs and several tanks of freshwater and saltwater fish.

Karen M. , LVT

Karen Manuello-Benanti has been an employee at West Hills since 1985. She graduated in 1982 from Farmindale University with her degree in veterinary technology,from there she went on to get her BS in biology from Brockport University. She has been with the practice for quite a long time and has watched it grow into the modern up to date hospital we know now. Karen has four children and a wonderful husband. She also has a bulldog, Spike, and a variety of other pets.

Tara M. , LVT

Starting with us in August 2000 as a kennel attendant, while still a high school student, Tara quickly learned all facets of animal care and handling. Tara's kind and compassionate nature makes her well suited for her career plans.

Christina P. , LVT

Christina has been working with animals for many years and has 3 dogs.

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Amanda S. , LVT

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Nicole T. , LVT

Nicole joined the staff of West Hills in November 2005 as a tech attendant. She graduated the Veterinary technology program at Suffolk community college and received her LVT license in 2007. She has one miniature pincher, one parrot and one parakeet. She especially loves working with the exotic pets and birds in the hospital.

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Patricia T. , LVT

Graduate of SUNY Suffolk's Vet Tech Program in 2007.

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Beatriz U.

Beatriz joined WHAH in the fall of 2006. She has been a strong part of our attending team and has been a pleasure to work with. Beatriz has been accepted into the Vet Tech program at Suffolk Community College, Fall 2007.

Reception

Lisa A.

Lisa joined the staff at West Hills in August of 2006. She was born and raised on Long Island and has been involved in the veterinary field since the age of sixteen. Lisa is currently attending college for veterinary science and plans to be fully licensed by the year 2007.

Meaghan B.

Meghan became a member of the West Hills Animal Hospital staff back in 2000. At the time she was still in high school and worked in the kennel. She then went on to work as an attendant part-time for a couple of years while maintaining a job at a laboratory. Meghan has rejoined our staff as a receptionist this time, showing her depth as an employee.

Katie B.

Katie has been with the WHAH staff since August 2007. Katie works in our reception area, helping clients check in and out and answering client calls.
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Leah C.

Leah joined the West Hills Team in March of 2002 as a Receptionist at our Front Desk. Since joining the WHAH team Leah has earned her degree in Chemical Dependency Counseling and will be continuing her education this Summer.

Olivia D.

Olivia is a new receptionist here who loves animals. Olivia currently attends Farmingdale University and is studying nursing.

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Loraine F.

Loraine's first love has always been for animals. She worked as a vet tech assistant while in high school, however upon graduation went into the Medical Assistant field and has been working with physicians for the past 30 years. Loraine wanted to go back to animals so applied for a reception position. Loraine has an Appaloosa, Tim for the past 21 years, who's now 26 and full of himself.

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Wendy F. , Patient Care Advocate

Wendy started out as a client at WHAH with her handsome Scottish Terrier, Dart. She started working part time at WHAH when her youngest daughter turned 3. Sadly, Dart has passed, but Wendy remains at WHAH. Late last summer Wendy accepted the position as Patient Care Advocate, a newly created position at WHAH.

Michele F.

Michele has been part of the WHAH reception staff since December of 2006. Michele is detail orientated with everything she does. She is part of the whah reception team and will great you on arrival, helping anyway she can.

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Maria G.
Amanda G.

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Susan G.

Sues love of animals brought her to West Hills in October of 2006. When she is not at the front desk making clients smile with her bubbly personality she is spending time with her husband John of 34 years (her high school sweetheart), her dog Rocky and cat Snickers. She enjoys swimming and gardening around her pool, and cooking pasta dinners for her 3 wonderful children.

Beth K.

Beths assoiation with WHAH began when she was a teenager and her family was one of the first WHAH clients. She started working a few years later in our kennel facility, and now has been part of the reception team for well over a decade.Her backround as a dog groomer allows her to bring a vast amount of varied experience to our front desk.She is active in training and showing her dogs,and can proudly boast that amoung her 5 Dobermans and 1 min pin there are 2 champions and 4 canine good citizens and registered therapy dogs. She is now working on training her newest family member,a deaf doberman,towards an obedience and agility title. Beth will soon be taking some time off as she awaits the birth of her first child in Aug,2004.

Jennifer P. , RN

Jennifer, joining our staff as recently as December 2001, has come to us with a large amount of animal care experience. She had been working in the field since she was seventeen. Jen has had experience in both the human medical field as well as the veterinary field.

Michelle S.

Michelle joined our reception team in September of 2007. She joins our talented list of part-time team members, and will gladly help you in person or on the phone.
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Audrey T.

Audrey is our resident puppy greeter. Her warm personality, professional attitude and compassion have made her popular with both our clients and her co-workers. A dyed-in-the-wool Yankees fan; her other passions include her dogs, Napolean and Sally, her husband Billy and her two grandchildren Gianna and Joseph, who always bring smiles to her face.

Diane T.

Diane was born in Reading, Berkshire, England. She made the move to Long Island about 6 years ago with her two children and her husband after her husband was transferred from the UK to the United States. Diane has a dog Barney and a cat named Molly. She enjoys walking on the beach, cake making, cooking, but her passion is gardening. Diane has been lucky enough to be a stay at home mom, this is her first job after having been out for so long and she states "l am enjoying it very much".

Laura Z.

Laura had been a client of West Hills Animal Hospital since 1991, and when a receptionist position opened up in February 1998 we were delighted when she agreed to join our staff. Her background in business school and her exuberant personality has made her an outstanding presence at the front desk. Laura has remained a central figure at our desk throughout these years, taking only a short break to give birth to her third child, Sean!

Kennel

Robin F.

Robin has had a huge impact on our Boarding Facility since her arrival in 1997. A long time animal lover and experienced kennel attendent, Robin is one of our hardest workers. During our most busy times, she is always the first to arrive to ensure that all of our guests are comfortable and properly cared for. Robin spends lots of extra time with our nervous guests to ease their anxiety and make their stay more enjoyable. Robin takes special pride in keeping our facility clean and orderly and proudly shows it off to prospective future guests and their parents.

Jessica G.

Jessica joined our team of veterinary assistants in the summer of 2005, Jessica now splits her time between assisting and being a guest attendant. The passion she feels for animals has dominated her life since early childhood. Jesica has owned and cared for horses since the age of nine. She has always doted on her six fabulous felines throughout the years. Dogsitter, dogwalker, are some of her favorite words. In addition to her academic high school program, Jessica became certified in veterinary assisting following a two year course of study via wilson tech. Jessica came to us straight out of Becker College where she majored in Animal Care.

Bryan H.

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Sarah M.

Sara joined our kennel staff team in July of 2008. Sara has been an excellent addition to our team. She is caring and fun, and wants to care for your pets just the same as her own.
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Scott M.

Scott is a returnee to the West Hills Lodge staff. He currently works hard caring for all of our guests. Scott is a kind individual that will help whenever and whereever he may be needed.

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Max N.

Max is currently a part time attendant with a two year western Suffolk Boces certification in veterinary assisting and has scored in the top 10 out of 103 completers in FFA comp for small animals in the 2004-2005 year and was also treasurer for that year.
Max attended a semester at Suny Delhi and currently is attending Suffolk community college. He also currently volunteers at sweetbriar nature center in Smithtown (since 1998) ( www.sweetbriarnc.org ) and at pilgrim state hospital, in Brentwood, in the museum and farm
Max is also a collector of historic artifacts and Camera’s while being an avid photographer of nature and urban decay (abandoned/historic places)

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Tim Y.

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Grooming

Janine L. and Cassie W. , The Grooming Box

Cassie has been grooming dogs with West Hills Animal Hospital for over 15 years.

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Assistants

Steven B.

Steven has been a part time staff member mainly from the fall through spring starting begining in 2006. Steven started in 2006 on the kennel staff, now in 2008 he has moved into the attending staff at whah.

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Julie C. , Exam Room Assistant

Julie came to the staff at WHAH in the Fall of 2005. Julies experience stems from her equine past. She is a valuable staff member at West Hills in the attending area and is often found keeping the hospitals appearance to highest standard.

Melissa C. , Exam Room Assistant

Melissa has worked at West Hills since July 2000. Mel's area of expertise is handling our patients and she is well known by our clients from her capable presence in the exam rooms or out on house calls with our doctors. Melissa is an Animal Science graduate of the University of Delaware and will begin working towards becoming and LVT this Fall at Suffolk Community College.

Christine C.

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Sara H. , Tech Assistant

Sara joined West Hills Animal Hospital in January 1999 after completing the Wilson Tech Veterinary Assistant program. Coming to us with two years of experience,she quickly adapted to our kennel and has become one of our vital employees. Always placing our guests comfort first, Sara prides herself in remembering the special little things about them. Sara now works in our treatment area taking the same care for our sick patients.

Theresa H.

Theresa joined the WHAH staff in early February of 2008. She is eager to learn and has future plans to enroll in the vet tech program at Suffolk Community College.
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Hillary L.

Most of Hillary's personal experience is in fitness/fitness management. She also has a master's degree in physical education. Hillary has plans for the future to attend Suffolk Community College to get licensed as a Veterinary Technition. She absolutely has a passion for animals.

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Sheryll M.

Sheryll has been with the West Hills team since September of 2007. Sheryll is one of our part-time veterinary attendants who truly does enjoy her work at whah.

Jessica O. , Tech Assistant

Jessica is a returnee at West Hills. Originally working in the kennel area of WHAH from 2003 to 2005, she has returned to West Hills in the attending area, and is also working as a Tech assistant. She has always loved animals and couldn't see herself doing anything else, she has a cat, dog, chinchilla, and guinea pig.

Stacie R.

Stacie is happy to have recently joined the staff as a part time Attendant. She has worked previously in other animal related positions and finds them very rewarding. She has a strong love for animals big and small and has been riding for many years. As she is unable to have a dog or cat at home because of a family members allergy she is more than willing to lavish all that love onto your pets. While not at the animal hospital Stacie can most often be found at the barn or at Stony Brook University where she is an english major and a psychology minor.

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Nadja S. , RN

A world traveler, Nadja came to work at West Hills in the fall of 1998. Nadja excelled in the treatment area and fast became a talented veterinary assistant. In the fall of 2001, Nadja received an appointment to work full time at the Bronx Zoo as a Head Keeper of rare and exotic birds. The handling skills she acquired working with our own Dr. Hoefer has helped make her position at the zoo even more successful. Nadja still works with Dr. Hoefer one day a week at West Hills Animal Hospital. In May of 2005, Nadja received her RN degree. She now splits her time between the human field and veterinary medicine.

Kristine S.

Kristine works as an attendant at our Commack office on their challenging Saturday’s. In addition she is also a vital part of our main office as she keeps us clean and smelling good.

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Lindsay S.

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Chera V.

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Annmarie W.

Annmarie was born and raised in Queens NY, she and her boyfriend have recently moved to Bellport Long Island. Their family consists of 2 turtles & 2 dogs who are her heart and soul, named Diesel and Goliath. Ever since Annmarie was a child, she has always wanted to work at the San Diego Zoo with wild animals, but ever since she started working at WHAH she thinking she would like to become a vet. Annmarie plans on going back to school soon to study and decide which field she would like to be in.

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