Meet Our Clinic Team
Veterinarians

Dr. Timothy Groves
Dr. Groves received his degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Florida. Following advanced internship and residency training, he spent decades in small animal practice with a special interest in feline medicine. After leaving private practice, Dr. Groves became fully involved in non-profit, community-based veterinary services, emphasizing high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter surgery, care for fosters, and TNR for feral cats.
Dr. Ann Langer
Dr. Ann Langer grew up in Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in 1994. She escaped the frigid winters and humid, mosquito infested summers at her first opportunity and now calls the Pacific Northwest home.
Dr. Langer has menagerie’ of rescued pets. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, movies, crafts, thrift store shopping, water sports, vegetable gardening, listening to podcasts, and simple living. She is always working on some sort of project. Projects can range from creating a life-size paper mache’ witch for a Halloween party to building a chicken coop or working on home remodel projects.
After working various roles within veterinary medicine, Dr. Langer discovered her true veterinary love: Providing high quality, high volume spay/neuter surgery for dogs and cats. She is the founding veterinarian of three spay/neuter clinics in Washington State. She has provided spay/neuter services for many animal shelters in Washington State and Oregon. Helping homeless pets has been the most rewarding. She sees a huge need for spay/neuter services in Southern Oregon and is thrilled to be able to help reduce the pet overpopulation problem in the area.
Dr. Laura Edwards
Dr. Laura Edwards was born in Houston, Texas where there are more than a million homeless animals. She has been passionate about supporting strays and shelters from a young age, being involved in trap neuter release programs and similar endeavors.
She graduated with honors from Oklahoma State University and pursued her post doctorate internship at Purdue. After Oklahoma and Indiana, she was ready for the wilderness of the West Coast.
In her free time, you can find her reading science fiction novels somewhere under a tree with her dog, Red.
Supporting staff

Jenny Pace
Jenny graduated from Yuba college in Marysville, CA as a Certified Veterinary Technician in 1989. She spent the first 20 years of her career working in specialty hospitals in Sacramento, CA and Denver, CO. Jenny has always had a special interest in Internal Medicine and medical imaging, and also spent years working as an ER technician.
Jenny moved from Denver to Medford with a group of veterinarians and technicians in 2004 to open SOVSC, Southern Oregon’s first 24 hour emergency and specialty hospital. It is an amazing coincidence that SOVSC started out in the very building that now houses the FOTAS Clinic. The building hasn’t changed much, and Jenny feels right at home!
Jenny began working in general practice in Grants Pass Oregon. It was there, in 2016, that she also became involved with the Josephine County Animal Shelter. Jenny has been a volunteer at the shelter ever since, fostering dozens and dozens of kittens, assisting other foster families with their kittens, and working with the shelter manager to improve the health and lives of the shelter guests.
It is Jenny’s commitment to the Josephine County shelter that brings her to the FOTAS Community Spay & Neuter Clinic. She has been volunteering with FOTAS to help the clinic become a reality! She is committed to the idea of keeping animals out of the shelter system in the first place by addressing pet overpopulation.
Of course all of her, and her husband’s personal pets have been adopted from the shelter over the years.

Victoria Wade
Victoria has worked in the veterinary field since 1999. Her in-depth experience working in many capacities within a clinic setting has provided her with the insight and experience needed to build and operate a successful community spay/neuter clinic.
Advisory Team and Executive Board

Matt Bolton
After 15 years in the animal welfare industry, Matt joined Andria Saxon to start Pawsitive Wellness Veterinary Care in Eugene, Oregon. The clinic continues to thrive serving the central Oregon community.
Matt is a key member of the Clinic team. His start-up and management experience is invaluable to FOTAS’ efforts.

Becky Cohn
Now in her second term as President of Friends of the Animals.
Becky joined FOTAS in 2012 as a dog walker. She soon learned that the Shelter was often filled with Pit Bull mixes and her concern led to the founding of the Pit Crew together with other dedicated volunteers. Becky was elected as the FOTAS President for the first time in January 2021.
Prior to moving here, Becky was a Foreign Service Officer with the Agency for International Development. Her family spent many years overseas including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Jamaica, and Barbados.
An avid dog lover, Becky has 5 dogs of her own, 3 of which are rescues: one from a kill shelter in Fresno and two 9-year-old Chihuahuas adopted from the Jackson County Animal Shelter.

Lisa Frankel
Prior to moving to Southern Oregon, Lisa volunteered with Furkids, the largest no-kill shelter in the Southeast. She fostered dogs, participated in outreach events, and facilitated adoptions. When Lisa moved to Ashland in 2022, she immediately sought out opportunities with FOTAS. She currently spends much of her volunteer time at the Jackson County Animal Shelter supporting the FOTAS dog programs. She also volunteers with Rogue Valley Street Dogs, an organization which offers assistance to animals of the unhoused and people with very low incomes, focusing on spay/neuter services.
Lisa also volunteers as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in the foster care system and is a member of the local Soroptimist chapter, which focuses on improving the lives of women and girls. Lisa worked in Human Resources for both public and private organizations throughout her career.