Mischa was born and raised in the small mountain town of Gunnison, CO. A true native! She has wanted to be a veterinarian since the tender age of 3. Mischa received both her undergraduate and DVM degrees from Colorado State University, 1995 and 2000 respectively. She has a deep passion for her patients and professionally enjoys cancer treatments, internal medicine, physical medicine focusing on pain management, nutritional therapy, and surgery.

Mischa is a certified medical acupuncturist for pets and loves to offer integrative treatment options including acupuncture, therapeutic laser, massage, and nutritional therapy. She has been training other veterinarians in veterinary acupuncture since 2007. In her spare time,

Mischa absolutely thrives in the outdoors! Whether it be running, hiking, biking, boating, snowboarding or relaxing on a tropical vacation. She enjoys watching movies with her family and working on her home and gardens.

Mischa desires to bring a welcoming atmosphere to Orchard Veterinary Medical Center, Inc. through compassionate care and community service. She is so very grateful to all the family, friends, clients, and patients throughout the years!

Heather grew up in the Chicago suburbs with her family. She attended her first year of college at the University of Illinois before transferring to Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin where she graduated with a B.A. in Biology and Spanish. She then returned to Champaign-Urbana to attend veterinary school at the University of Illinois - ILL! INI! - and graduated in 2012. She practiced locally for a couple of years before moving to Virginia with Jasmine, her little beagle. She worked in the northern Virginia area for 8 years before then moving to Colorado in 2023 with her boyfriend Brian, Jasmine, and their two black cats, Monster and Dexter. Heather's professional interests include senior/geriatric care, preventative medicine, and dentistry. Outside of veterinary medicine, Heather is a triathlete and competes in long distance triathlons but her favorite athletic achievement is running a one mile race in an inflatable dinosaur costume! She also enjoys yoga, trail running, baking (though admittedly is very bad at it), and listening to true crime podcasts.

Doug was born and raised in Eastern Colorado on a cattle ranch. He went to Colorado State University for undergraduate and veterinary school. He graduated in 1986 and worked in a clinic in southeast Denver and then worked in Michigan.

Him and his wife Kathy have four children, 10 grandchildren, and 3 dogs. They both enjoy time with the kids both here and in Michigan. He has done companion animal medicine in the Denver area for the past 20 years. He spent 10 years in Michigan.

He enjoys the people and pets that he works with on a daily basis. He enjoys both surgery and medicine.