Staff

DR. CRISTINA VALAS

Born in Madrid, Spain and lived there until the age of 11, when the whole family of 6 children moved to the  United Kingdom.  Educated in a Catholic boarding school in England until at the age of 17, when the family made another move to the United States. 

At 17, she started her career at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY where she majored in Biology/premed and minored in Business Administration.  In summer of 1988, she followed her now husband Rory to his native land, Massachusetts, and became a radiology technician at South Shore Veterinary Hospital in Weymouth until she started Veterinary School at Tufts in the Fall of 1989.  Graduated from Tufts in 1993, worked at Slade Veterinary Hospital and Westboro Animal Hospital before starting The Family Pet Hospital in 1998. 

Married to Rory Valas, a franchisee law attorney in Boston, and is presently living in Ashland with her husband, her two daughters, Cassandra (13) and Natasha (9), her son, Justin (6), her 2 dogs, Hunter and Tootsie, and two cats, Onyx and Yoda.

DR. KAREN RAVANESI

Former Dr. Karen Haack is Dr. Cris' best friend and classmate from Tufts.  She gave birth to her first child, beautiful Meghan Olivia on June 4th, 2005. She lives in Southborough with her husband and two kitties, Louie and Ella.  We trust you will find that her bed-side manner, knowledge and skills will exceed your expectations!