Dr. Caroline Kim

DVM

Dr. Caroline Kim joined the staff at Ocean Avenue Veterinary Hospital in the fall of 2019. As a 7-year-old girl, she always had dreams of becoming a veterinarian. A native of San Francisco, Dr. Kim attended Lowell High School. During her summers, she volunteered for her very first job as a kennel assistant right here at Ocean Avenue Veterinary Hospital. She remembers working late hours cleaning cages and feeding the hospitalized patients back when Dr. McElroy owned the practice.
She went on to pursue her undergraduate career at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1992 she graduated cum laude from the pre-medical program with a Bachelor’s degree in Science. She majored in Biology and minored in Chemistry. She returned to California to attend veterinary school at the University of California at Davis. She received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1996.

Dr. Kim has a particular interest in surgery. She completed a surgical externship at the Animal Medical Center in New York in 1995. She is certified in performing Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy (TPLO) cases and has a great interest in orthopedics. She also received training in laparoscopic surgery at the Oquendo Center in Las Vegas.

Before coming to Ocean Avenue Veterinary Hospital, Dr. Kim worked for almost 20 years in the Marina-Pacific Heights neighborhood. After a large corporation bought her hospital, she decided to look for another practice owned and operated by veterinarians. She came full circle when she met Dr. Singla and found her new work family at Ocean Avenue Veterinary Hospital. She believes that this practice has done a great job of keeping up its close ties to the local community. It has a warm, neighborhood feel while maintaining a high quality of service, along with futuristic upgrades in technology.

Dr. Kim is a member of the California Veterinary Medical Association, the American Veterinary Medical Association, and is APHIS certified. When she is not caring for her patients, Dr. Kim spends time with her human family and her two orange cats at her home in San Francisco.

Dr. Fady Baskharon

DVM

Dr. Fady is a graduate of Alexandria Egypt 2007, BVSc. He enjoys working with cats, dogs and equines. He enjoys dentistry. His favorite animal is a Donkey and wishes to have one some day. He has an awesome sense of humor and is an awesome DVM.

Dr. Sophia Rana

DVM

I was inspired watching my father, a veterinarian in New Delhi, practising with small animals. I graduated from Bangalore Veterinary College in 2015 and finished my PAVE program at Louisiana Vet School in 2017. I starting working at Ocean Ave Vet in 2021. My interests lie in small animal surgery and internal medicine. I have three dogs back in India.

Dr. Lori Drourr

Cardiologist

Dr. Lori Drourr graduated from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in 1996. She spent 9 years working in general practice prior to returning to academia to pursue her passion for cardiology. Following her residency at Texas A&M University, she achieved board certification from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) and became a Diplomate of the ACVIM in the College of Cardiology. As a specialist, she has worked in private specialty practice and as an associate professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario Veterinary College. Dr. Drourr has lectured at local and national meetings, including the ACVIM, AVMA, AHAA, and the SFVMA. She has facilitated veterinary staff training and participated in building a cardiology webinar that has reached more than 2000 veterinarians worldwide. She also collaborated with the veterinarians at the San Francisco and Oakland Zoos, studying dilated cardiomyopathy in meerkats. She continues to volunteer her time at the San Francisco Zoo as needed.

Dr. Drourr has published articles, presented her research on cats with and without murmurs, and contributed to the book The ABCDs of Small Animal Cardiology, A Practical Manual.

She’s a veterinarian by trade, a windsurfer, and a water woman by heart. Her favorite place in the world is Crissy Field – the beauty of the Bay Area captured in a single snapshot. Happiness is captured in the playful patterns of sand-filled paw prints.

Dr. Kris Valerio

DVM

Dr. Kris Valerio attended the University of Vermont, and graduated with a bachelor’s in Biological Sciences. She is a graduate of the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her interests include preventative medicine, imaging, and surgery. Outside of work she can be found at the beach or riding her young horse.