Our Staff
We are proud of our family at Veneta Veterinary Hospital. We take patient care very seriously and we want you to know your pet is in good hands. Our Licensed Technicians (‘Nurses’), Receptionists and Assistants have decades of experience between them and they also understand what it feels like to be in your shoes. We know you like to see a familiar face when you come through our door, and someone that is genuinely interested in helping you care for your pet.
Our Doctors
Dr. Ryan Frome
I am a born-and-raised Oregonian, so I never realized how great the people were here until I moved away. We spent a few years in Eastern Pennsylvania after school, and enjoyed our proximity to the history, culture and diversity of this country. But Oregon pulled us back when it came to starting a family. I have been involved in this community ever since, raising kids, doing veterinary education in the schools, coaching youth sports, volunteering at the Community Dinners, and serving on the City of Veneta Economic Development Committee. I am most proud of being a part of a locally owned veterinary hospital that our community (and beyond) values very highly.
Dr. Frome has been with Veneta Veterinary Hospital since 2008.
Dr Paul Schiffgens
Dr. Schiffgens has been working with our group since his graduation from Oregon State College of Veterinary Medicine
in 2012. Having grown up in Maryland, he moved here in 1996 to study International and Environmental Studies at University of Oregon. He fell in love with the area and has called it home ever since. After undergraduate school, Paul worked for several seasons on local organic farms before setting his sights on veterinary medicine. Though it was a passion for large animals that originally sparked Dr. Paul’s interest in veterinary medicine, it is the care for our client’s smaller pets that continues to feed the fire.
Paul, with his wife and children, share their house and property with three cats, Pider, Pippi and Mimi, and one Australian shepherd, Luce (pronounced Lucy). Dr. Paul hasn’t stopped caring for large animals all together; he continues to do so by caring for his family’s small flock of Gotland sheep. He also tends to an ever changing assortment of fowl and small mammals. When not working, Paul can also be found in his garden, tending to one chore or another, or otherwise knee deep in a project or activity with his family.
Dr Schiffgens has been with Veneta Veterinary Hospital since 2012 (not counting time as a veterinary student!)
Dr Gwen Graham
Dr. Graham was born in the mountains of North Carolina and has lived in Western Oregon for most of her life. She has always loved animals, especially horses. After graduating from the Oregon State and Washington State combined veterinary program she has spent the next decade working in both private practice and shelter surgery.
She has also made multiple mission trips to East Africa to work with medical teams and help with young women’s leadership camps. She recently made a trip to the Cook Islands to perform spay and neuter surgeries to help with cat overpopulation. She shares a small farm full of rescue animals with her awesome husband Mike. Together they explore the outdoors, help with church Sunday school classes and sponsor several children in East Africa.
Dr. Graham has been with Veneta Veterinary Hospital since 2020.
Dr. Sarah Harmon
Dr. Harmon earned degrees from the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. This means she loves the Ducks and the Beavers! Originally from Northern California, she moved to Eugene for school and met her now husband Johnny – a true Oregonian. She has been around the world, but knew the Pacific Northwest would be her forever home. During her travels, she helped to organize a veterinary clinic on Ometepe Island in Nicaragua. Veterinary students staffed the clinic to help local animals with spays, neuters and much needed dental care.
Dr. Harmon spends her free time outdoors camping and kayaking with her husband and nephews. She also enjoys the Pacific Ocean by spending time whale watching with her family in Waldport. Dr. Harmon has a small farm where she loves to spend time with her three dogs, two silly goats, a stubborn old horse, three elusive felines, two hilarious guinea pigs and a 30 year-old, grumpy fish “Boss Hog”.
Dr Harmon has been with Veneta Veterinary Hospital since 2020.
Dr. Tre Gildersleeve
Dr. Gildersleeve is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He grew up sailing the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain, playing club soccer across the South, and caring for his beloved pet dogs. He graduated from Loyola University New Orleans with a Bachelor of Arts in Writing, but spent his free time assisting veterinarians at a local hospital and the thoroughbred racetrack. These experiences inspired him to pursue a career in veterinary medicine at Louisiana State University.
Dr. Gildersleeve held the coveted position of veterinary student caretaker for LSU’s tiger mascot, Mike VII, for two and a half years. He is passionate about small animal medicine and surgery, and looks forward to a career dedicated to serving people and their pets. When he’s not at work, he can usually be found hiking and camping with his black lab, Molly.
Dr. Gildersleeve has been with Veneta Veterinary Hospital since 2020.