Dr. Megan Andeer

Dr. Megan Andeer grew up in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia and attended Philadelphia public schools (Bache, Masterman and finally Central High School [253]). After attending University of Massachusetts Amherst for undergraduate work she graduated from University of Pennsylvania’s school of Veterinary Medicine in 2001, where she was awarded the prize for patient care as well as for feline medicine (and where she initially met Dr Perner!)  After completing a rotating internship at South Shore Animal Hospital outside of Boston, Dr. Andeer returned to Philadelphia to dedicate her career to feline medicine.  Having worked as a feline practitioner since 2002, Dr. Andeer has also completed a course to become a certified veterinary acupuncturist.  She joined City Cat Vets in 2016 to pursue her goals of working in and owning an independently owned veterinary hospital with Dr. Perner. Her special interests are oncology, geriatrics, dentistry and surgery as well as orange cats.  She is a member of AAFP, the AVMA, and PVMA.  In her free time she is an avid runner and reads as much as she can. She shares her home in Bella Vista with her husband, daughter, and their several cats.  

Dr. Caroline Perner

Dr. Caroline Perner moved to the Philadelphia area in 1986 to attend Swarthmore College, where she dabbled in liberal arts and competed on the swim team for four years. She began her career in veterinary medicine in 1992 as an emergency service technician at University of Pennsylvania.  She remained at PennVet to receive her VMD in 2000, and completed a rotating internship in medicine and surgery in 2001.  After one year as an emergency service clinician at VSEC in Langhorne, PA, she joined Dr. Howard Wellens at Queen Village Animal Hospital from 2002-2008 and 2010-2016. She currently lives in West Philadelphia with her husband, three human children, four cats and one large dog.   She is thrilled to be part of the City Cat Vets team, and looks forward to many more years of caring for the most amazing creatures on Earth!

DR. ELIZABETH KNIGHTON

After receiving an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Harvard University, Dr. Elizabeth Knighton worked for a year as a volunteer elementary school teacher in Massachusetts.  She then went on to obtain her veterinary degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. In 2004, Dr. Knighton published an article in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association describing a previously unrecognized genetic disorder that made her cat part-male and part-female.  With the exception of one year in a cat/dog practice, Dr. Knighton has been working exclusively with cats since graduation.  She is a member of the AAFP, AVMA, and PVMA.  Dr. Knighton lives in the Fitler Square neighborhood with her husband, two sons, and her cat, Annie.  In her free time, she enjoys taking ballet classes, walking the ever-expanding Schuylkill Trail, and taking advantage of all of Philadelphia’s cultural offerings.  After spending 14 years caring for suburban cats, she is thrilled to be coming back to her Philadelphia neighborhood to join the City Cat Vets team!

DR. MARJORIE VAN SAUN

Dr. van Saun was born and raised in upstate New York and attended Binghamton University for her undergraduate studies in Biology. Following college she moved one state south to Pennsylvania to attend veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated in 2014. During veterinary school Dr. van Saun was the president of the Penn Vet Animal Welfare Society and took part in several Intercollegiate Animal Welfare Judging/Assessment Contests. She was also involved in the Feline Club and the Dentistry Club, both of which would become her passions within veterinary medicine.

After Penn Vet, Dr. van Saun alternated working in feline/canine and feline-only private practice in the greater Philadelphia area. She has recently joined the City Cat Vets team in 2020 and is thrilled to be back in feline-only practice. In her free time, Dr. van Saun enjoys exploring and biking around Philadelphia, watching movies and spending time with her partner and her cats. She has a particular soft spot for dilute calico kitties and polydactyls; her youngest feline kid has a total of 25 toes! 

DR. JESSICA BASSECHES

Dr. Basseches started out in the humanities but then realized that her heart belonged to animals and medicine. She changed paths in order to obtain her veterinary degree from NCSU CVM in 2003. Subsequently, she performed a private practice internship in Florida, followed by a residency in radiology at the University of Georgia, finishing up in 2007. She worked as a staff radiologist at Angell Animal Medical Center (MSPCA) in Boston for five years before traveling to the southern hemisphere as a locum radiologist, having the opportunity to work with a diverse range of species in varied and fabulous environments. When she came back to the United States, she moved to the Philadelphia area and worked at CARES for over 7 years. She has also started her own independent radiology practice, Lucid Veterinary Imaging, providing radiology and ultrasound services to small animal hospitals in the area. She finds exotic radiology beautiful and grooves on the many facets of diagnostic imaging, getting to participate in almost all of the cases in the hospital and feeling like a critical part of the team helping our patients. Dr. Basseches loves being out of doors as much as possible and in almost any capacity (an antidote to days spent in the dark), enjoys both teaching and learning, frolicking with her dogs and partner, running and hiking, critical thinking, resisting oppression, science fiction and creative vegetarian cooking of the bounty from her garden.