MISSY JORDAN, DVM
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Dr. Jordan grew up small-town Texas and graduated with her DVM from Texas A&M University in 2012. She called Houston home for 7 years before moving to beautiful Colorado to spend more time outdoors hiking, skiing, snowboarding, and rock climbing in 2018. She currently calls Boulder home with her two cats. Missy loves her chosen profession, enjoying the special relationship that she shares with pets and the people who love them. Her professional passion is improving the lives of pets in soft tissue surgery and dentistry.
AMANDA BURDETTE, DVM
ASSOCIATE VETERINARIAN
Dr. Burdette is from Westchester, NY and moved to Colorado in 1999. She completed her undergraduate degree at Colgate University, spent two years at the University of Colorado Boulder, and then received her DVM from Colorado State University. She has experience in home hospice and euthanasia care, and quality of life for her patients is at the heart of her practice. She utilizes fear-free techniques, pain management, and preventive medicines with the goal of seeing patients living their best lives.
Dr. Burdette spends her time outside of the hospital with her husband, two teenagers, dog Ginger, and cats Theo and Sonny. They like to hike and ski together as a family. On her own time, Dr. Burdette reads, trail runs, bakes, cooks, and tells herself to restart her yoga practice.
MAYA SWIDERSKI, DVM
ASSOCIATE VETERINARIAN
Dr. Swiderski is originally from Maryland and moved to Colorado in 2020. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and then continued to receive her DVM from Colorado State University.
Dr. Swiderski is especially interested in feline medicine, internal medicine, pain management, caring for senior pets, and end-of-life care. She has her Fear Free Veterinary Professional Level 2 Certification and aims to use this knowledge to decrease the stress level of all her patients during their appointments. She is also RECOVER certified in Basic and Advanced Life Support.
Dr. Swiderski aims to pursue ways to make veterinary care more accessible. She obtained a certificate in American Sign Language while completing her undergraduate degree and has been working on improving her Spanish throughout her time in the veterinary field. She will be very honest that her language skills for both of these languages are very rusty but will aim to do whatever she can to make communication about your pet’s health as clear as possible.
Dr. Swiderski’s current personal zoo includes two cats – Noodle and Steve (full name Steve Purrwin), one dog – Sully, one corn snake – Phoenix, and her horse – Jett. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, fostering sick or spicy kittens, and continuing to explore everything that Colorado has to offer.
KAREN CHRIST, DVM
ASSOCIATE VETERINARIAN
Dr. Christ received her DVM degree from The University of Georgia in 2016 – Go Dawgs!
Following graduation, she worked in general practice in the Blue Ridge mountains while taking overnight emergencies on-call. After her husband Dr. Fujikawa (an exotics veterinarian in Thornton, CO) graduated in 2019, they packed up and headed west to the mountains of Colorado. She spent 4 years as an Urgent Care veterinarian in Denver metro, and is now looking forward to meeting you and your pets here in Boulder, hopefully on a less urgent basis.
Client education is extremely important to Dr. Christ – she aims to ensure you have a full understanding of your pet’s medical care and that you leave every appointment feeling like you have been empowered to take an active role in your pet’s health. Her areas of interest include: preventative medicine, soft tissue surgery, urgent and end-of-life care. She shares her home with her husband, their two pitbulls Amber and Quinn, their siamese mix Opal, and 2 snakes Jafar and Moro. When not in the office you can catch her skiing the slopes, hiking the trails or enjoying a Colorado craft beer on a sunny patio.
