An Exceptional Team

Our doctors and technicians have been specifically chosen to match our unique Urgent Pet vision for urgent veterinary care. They all have extensive emergency experience, having worked many years in busy Emergency Rooms in the Bay Area and elsewhere. When you phone our hospital, our team will determine whether your pet has an urgent care condition, or whether instead you should be redirected to a nearby 24-hour emergency hospital. Whatever happens, our doctors have the knowledge, the experience, and the equipment to treat any case that comes through the door. So even if your pet comes to us with a true emergency, we will stabilize them before helping you get them to the appropriate emergency hospital.

Dr. Kulasekara, also known as “Dr. K,” has over 25 years of experience as a veterinarian. She co-founded the first multi-doctor private veterinary hospital in Sri Lanka with two colleagues in 1996 and her hospital provides care for the pets of diplomats from several countries. Dr. K has worked in emergency animal hospitals in Massachusetts, Maryland, and California, and most recently as a full- time relief veterinarian concurrently at three emergency hospitals in the East Bay. When she isn’t taking care of pets, she loves experiencing the cuisine, music, dance, and literature of other cultures around the world—by traveling, or just by finding and interacting with people from all over the world right here in the Bay Area.

Dr. Audrey Buatois joined Urgent Pet as a full time Veterinarian in 2024. She had been working as a relief doctor at Urgent Pet since 2022. Born in Grenoble, France, Dr. Buatois grew up in Los Altos, California. She received her B.A. in Biology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014. She returned to California to attend and graduate from UC Davis College of Veterinary Medicine in 2018. Upon graduation, Dr. Buatois completed a one-year small animal rotating internship at VCA Encina Veterinary Medical Center. She has been practicing as an emergency and urgent care veterinarian in San Francisco and the East Bay since that time.