Diane Eigner, VMD
Diane is a 1980 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Establishing the hospital was her life long dream. She is a Past-President of the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) and is also a Past-President of the University of Pennsylvania’s Veterinary Alumni Board. Diane serves on the Advisory Board of Harcum Junior College’s Veterinary Technician Program and is the Consulting Veterinarian for the Morris Animal Refuge. Committed to feline medicine, she attends over 30 hours of continuing education annually and was a fellow of the Academy of Feline medicine when it existed. Doctor Eigner’s column “Ask The Cat Doctor” appeared in the Cat Fancier’s Almanac from 1996-2000. Diane joined the Catalyst Council’s board as the American Association of Feline Practitioner’s representative in 2009. She is now serving as the immediate past chair. Dr. Eigner serves as the Strategic Opportunities Committee representative for her Veterinary Management Group, VMG18, the first all feline veterinary management group. In 2009, Dr. Eigner and her hospital team were invited to join ten other feline veterinarians and their hospitals when Boehringer established the Feline Innovation Center. Boehringer’s FIC is an initiative that places clinical trials in real world practice settings. The entire staff at The Cat Doctor is honored to play a role in advancing the development of feline therapeutics. Dr. Eigner was honored when she was invited to join the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine’s Dean’s Council in 2010.
An avid Sailor, Diane loves nothing better than to be at the Jersey shore where she keeps her sailboat, Purrfect, and where she has a second home. Since meeting her husband, Fred Turoff, Temple University’s Men’s gymnastics team head coach, her family life has been dominated by men’s gymnastics. Her son Evan is a level ten gymnast that competes nationally and is excited to head to Temple in the fall of 2012, hoping to have a spot on the men’s division one varsity gymnastics squad. He is a three time USA Gymnastics Junior Olympic first tier scholar athlete. Evan’s favorite event is rings. Diane also shares her life with three very entertaining cats. Though she shouldn’t have a favorite, her Sphynx cat, Velvet, which she rescued at the shelter where she consults, is the cat love of her life. Her integrated home also includes a Welsh Corgi named Twinks, two Cornish Rex cats, Naui and Padi, a Columbian red tail boa constrictor, a leopard gecko and a Russian Tortoise.
dreigner@thecatdr.com
Megan Andeer, VMD, CVA
Megan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 2001. She began working at veterinary hospitals at the age of eleven at The Cat Doctor, caring for our cats. She continued on as a Veterinary Assistant at a feline hospital all through high school and while at college at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She was the President of the feline club at Penn and in her senior year she received the Feline Medicine and Surgery Prize from the American Association of Feline Practitioners and the Student Government Award for Patient Care. Graduating in the top of her class, Megan interned at VCA South Shore Animal Hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Megan lives in Center City with her husband Jerry, her daughter Anna Rose and her cats one-eyed Oliver, tailless Frank, Gala, Seth, Cleo, and Hank.
drandeer@thecatdr.com
Jessica Milner, DVM
Jessica received both her Bachelor of Science in 2000 and Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 2005 from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. After graduation she moved back to sunny Florida and joined the staff at Aventura Animal Hospital in her hometown of Miami where she worked for two years and was exposed to a demanding and challenging case load. In 2007 she headed back to the Northeast and joined The Cat Doctor team. In addition to caring for her feline patients, she spays and neuters dogs from the Morris Animal Refuge. Jessica lives in the Fairmount area of Philadelphia with her husband Danny, sons Sean and Ryan and rambunctious cat Riley.
Jan Oliver, D.V.M.
Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Dr. Oliver received her doctorate of veterinary medicine from the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island in 2008. After graduation, Jan spent a short time in New Jersey honing her skills in exotic animal medicine. After that, she worked at a busy small animal clinic in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Recently she has moved back to the United States , and is now living just outside Philadelphia with her boyfriend, CJ and her two funny and trouble-making cats: Leroy Brown and Skittles. Outside of work, Jan loves to read, travel and ski.
Specialists:
Cecelia Helenski, MS, DVM
Dr. Helenski received her B.S. degree from the University of Rhode Island and her MS degree from the University of Tennessee. She then attended Tufts University where she received her DVM. She interned at Oklahoma State University and did her residency at the Universities of Florida and Pennsylvania. Her practice is limited to Cardiology.
Lisa S. Ziemer, VMD , ACVR
Lisa Ziemer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1994. She was the recipient of the Feline Medicine and Surgery Prize from the American Association of Feline Practitioners and the Student Government Award for Patient Care. She spent one year practicing general medicine at a feline
hospital before beginning a one-year fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to complete a residency in radiology, becoming board certified in the specialty in 2003. Lisa lives in Center City with her partner Chris, her Ocicat Lola, Devon Rex Meep, Great Dane Darwin, Norfolk Terrier Henry, and Boxer Mix Kona.
