🐾 AxisVet Clinical Team
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Clinical Leadership Team
Dr. Christopher Paige
MS, DVM, DACVIM
CMO
- Cardiology
Dr. Christopher Paige has always been passionate about animals. Today, he is proud to put that passion to work as a veterinary cardiologist who’s been in the field for over 12 years. Dr. Paige is board-certified in Cardiology by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM). For more than nine years, he has worked in private specialty practices in Mesa, Phoenix, and Flagstaff, Arizona, where he offers full, interventional cardiology services.
In 2012, Dr. Paige was recruited into cardiovascular research at a global human medical device company and temporarily left private practice for preclinical medical device research. In 2014, he started a mobile practice to provide veterinary cardiology services to Flagstaff, AZ, and surrounding areas of Northern Arizona. For the past 4 years, he also remains an adjunct clinical faculty member at Midwestern College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM). In August 2016, Dr. Paige opened Valley Veterinary Cardiology to offer the Valley’s first cardiology-specific practice dedicated to patient, client, and primary care veterinarian support. Aside from mobile practice, he has stationary practices at various specialty hospitals in Arizona (Mesa, Phoenix, and Glendale). In collaboration with Dr. Jason Eberhardt (Internal Medicine Specialist), Dr. Paige opened Valley Veterinary Internal Medicine to expand the mobile veterinary specialty services. In 2018, he also opened AZVETIDEAS, which is a veterinary medical device consulting company.
After being a dedicated client of world-renowned human and veterinary ambulatory monitoring service, the opportunity had recently become available for Dr. Paige to maintain this high-quality service specifically dedicated to veterinary patients. Most importantly, many of the previous employees (technicians) from this large human ambulatory service have also joined Dr. Paige to help create AxisVetTM.
Dr. Jared Jaffe DVM, MS, DACVIM
Director of Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Dr. Jared Jaffey hails from Florida, where he obtained his undergraduate degree in animal sciences from the University of Florida. He went on to receive his doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Florida in 2012. To continue his education, Dr. Jaffey completed a rotating small animal internship at East Bay Specialists in California. After this, Dr. Jaffey went on to complete two small animal internal medicine focused internships at Lauderdale Veterinary Specialists in South Florida while also obtaining a Master’s Degree in biomedical sciences from Florida Atlantic University. After this, he went on to complete a residency in small animal internal medicine from the University of Missouri in 2018. Dr. Jaffey is an active researcher with interests in endocrinology, vitamin D, hepatobiliary disorders, pulmonary hypertension, coccidioidomycosis, and hereditary methemoglobinemia Google Scholar
Outside of his life in veterinary medicine, Dr. Jaffey lives with his girlfriend, who is also a small animal internist, and their four dogs, Roscoe, Alfie, Zoey, and Luna, as well as two kittens, Sylvie and Odie.
Dr. Jaffey enjoys watching college and professional basketball and football and dominating fantasy football leagues. He enjoys heading to the gym and an occasional pickup game of basketball or flag football. But, more than anything, he enjoys relaxing by a pool or body of water doing absolutely nothing.
Dr. Jason Fuerst DVM, ACVR
Director Radiology
- Radiology
Dr. Jason Fuerst is a board-certified radiologist and diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Radiology (ACVR). He has long been an advocate for the human-animal bond and has enjoyed empowering that bond for more than 10 years working in academic and private practices in California and Ohio. Dr. Fuerst has contributed to research throughout the veterinary field including microwave ablation of pulmonary nodules, artificial intelligence error rate for thoracic radiograph markers, and evaluation of an abdominal surgical incision closure apparatus; he also serves as reviewer for several veterinary journals. His research focus is cross-sectional imaging, specifically computed tomography of canine patients.
Jason received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from University of California, Davis and completed a residency in radiology at the Ohio State University where he concurrently obtained a Master of Science degree in comparative biomedical sciences. After residency, Dr. Fuerst provided radiology services as an in-hospital clinician at large specialty clinics for over 5 years before exploring the field of teleradiology in order to serve a larger variety of patients, he joined AxisVet in 2024 as Director of Radiology. When not working, Dr. Fuerst spends his time with his growing family in the outdoors around Southern California.
Dr. Stacey Leach
DVM, MS, DACVIM
Director of Cardiology
- Cardiology
Dr. Leach received his Bachelor’s degree in animal science and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Texas A&M University in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He then completed both a one-year rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery, a three-year residency in cardiology, and a Master’s degree in veterinary sciences at the University of Missouri. He became board certified in cardiology by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2012. Dr. Leach is currently an associate professor at the University of Missouri and serves as the chief of cardiology. He has authored numerous publications, has lectured at both the regional and national level, and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for several veterinary journals. In his free time he can be found in the gym, enjoying the outdoors, or spending time with friends, family, and his two standard schnauzers.
Art Clark
Holter - Lead Technician
- Certified Technician
Arthur Clark BA/CCT has a long history of care and concern in ancillary human and veterinary cardiology with training under Welsh cardiologist Robert Marshall and veterinary cardiologist Clay Calvert and many others. For a number of years, he has been the lead technician at LabCorp Cardiac Services in Holter monitoring – Human and Veterinary. He is also familiar with ambulatory BP/event monitoring and a resource person for technician training and assistance, including pacemakers.
He has taken a great interest in assessing veterinary Holters for veterinarians all over the U.S., Britain, France, and Spain; this includes many university veterinary teaching hospitals and research facilities, including the Henry Ford Research Foundation. Well versed in Canine, Feline, and Equine Holters, he is looking forward to continuing helping patients at AxisVetTM!