Soheil Naderi, DVM, the president of the company, co-founded the premier family-friendly environmentally-focused veterinary hospital located in Dana Point. His passion includes providing pet owners in the heaven of Southern California, Dana Point, with all the care their pets need in one place and making an incomparable relationship (veterinarian client-patient-relationship, or VCPR) in the process!

Graduated from the best veterinary school in Iran, Dr. Soheil experienced veterinary co-ownership for a decade prior to being accepted as one of fifteen veterinarians in the world in 2012 to enter a very competitive post-graduate study program at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, en route to get a PhD in epidemiology. While life ended up putting a different spin on this path, he pivoted quickly and accepted experiences as a veterinary assistant in over 25 different hospitals in northern and southern California, including the San Diego area, while he worked toward converting his veterinary license to practice in the United States (a many-stage, many year, many exam process).

After becoming licensed in California, he practiced in 3 different hospitals in San Diego County (Banfield, VCA and a private practice), before deciding to be an independent contractor and practice as a relief vet in San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, and Inland Empire Counties in Southern California. He was trying to find “his fit” in both the community and profession.

Kateryna AL Naderi, VMD, co-owner and the secretary-treasurer of the company, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 2007, during which she was accepted to a two-year Health Professionals Scholarship Program with the United States Army. After graduation, she served on operational assignments as a Veterinary Corps officer as Operations Manager at Fort Bliss, TX, then Officer-In-Charge of two preventive-care clinics in White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Airforce Base, NM. She completed multiple developmental assignments as stepping stones to participation and graduation from the Army’s three-stage Command and General Staff Officers College. Her career then took a broadening capacity to northern California where she became the only veterinary observer-controller-trainer at her unit, responsible for providing administrative control, evaluating task performance, and giving constructive feedback to participants during training exercises, until retiring as a Major with 15 years of service.

During her military days, she also dabbled in general medicine at corporate and private veterinary hospitals, deciphering the qualities she desired in her forever-hospital. She has served the California veterinary community since 2012, and the southern California region since 2017, where she met her husband and began serving the pet populations of her local community while also starting a young family and supporting the Fear Free movement. Her passion is preserving the cherished human animal bond through comprehensive medical and surgical interventions, be it through general practice, urgent care, or emergency care.

Outside of work, she enjoys preserving anything her husband can get to grow in their family's organic garden, and trying to keep up with her husband, 5-year old son, and trio of yearling kittens (named after Persian herbs – Shambalileh, Avishan, and Reyhan). Now that they both have a hospital they are proud to call "home," they look forward to having their two-legged and four-legged family members grow with the family practice!