BUTTERCUP VETERINARY HOSPITAL - Key Persons
Amber comes to us as a Denver native who has worked in veterinary medicine for over ten years. She has worked in all capacities from reception, to lead technician to Hospital Manager. She has a passion for surgery and preventative care. Her experience has taken her from Denver, CO to Atlanta, GA; and then five years ago brought her home to Texas.
Amber loves animals and kids. She has been a licensed foster parent for three years now and is in the process of adopting her two children! She also has three furry children which includes two chihuahuas named Vincenzo and Niko and a tortoise shell cat named Stevie Nicks.
Dr. Pittman was born and raised on a small farm near Austin, Texas. She developed her passion for animals at a young age. After finishing her undergraduate degree at Texas A&M, she moved to Indiana to work with captive wolves and later to Montana to do research on coyotes and wolves in Yellowstone National Park. When she returned to Austin, she worked at the Austin Nature and Science Center, where she had the privilege of teaching students about animals and the environment. It was after these adventures that she decided to pursue a career in veterinary medicine.
Dr. Pittman attended veterinary school at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine. Her main focus of study was on wildlife medicine. As a student, she spent her summers working with veterinarians at various wildlife preserves in the United States and Africa.
Dr. Pittman graduated from veterinary school in 2008. After interviewing at Buttercup Veterinary Hospital, she knew right away that she was home! Dr. Pittman worked as an associate veterinarian at Buttercup Veterinary Hospital from 2008 until March 2020. In September of 2020 she started her own business as a relief veterinarian. She is excited to do relief work at Buttercup because it has allowed her to continue to practice high quality medicine and maintain the relationships she has established over the years with her clients and their pets. When she is not working, Dr. Pittman enjoys spending time with her family, traveling and working in her vegetable and flower gardens.
Dr. Mary Paige Corcoran-Silvestre was born and raised in Europe, but with a mother born in Houston, it was not long before the family was back in Texas.
Spending summers on her aunt's Charolais farm in Spain, her love of animals grew so strong that veterinary medicine and Texas A&M University were the only options.
Dr. Corcoran graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelors of Science in 1983 and worked for 9 months before starting Veterinary School at Granada Equine Services as the Stallion Manager. Originally focusing on large animals; horses and cows, Dr. Corcoran soon realized her love for dogs and cats and the bonds that were formed with them individually is what she loved the most. She graduated from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine in 1988 and immediately moved to Austin. She worked at a small practice in Round Rock for 9 months before opening a satellite clinic in South Austin. She stayed in South Austin for a year before moving to Cedar Park and working at Buttercup Creek Animal Hospital with Dr. Carl Wells. In 2006, she purchased the practice and changed the name to Buttercup Veterinary Hospital.
Dr. Corcoran loves working with dogs and cats, big and small, she enjoys seeing small exotic pets but admits to not knowing as much about them as the new specialists in town. She enjoys medicine, surgery, patient/client interactions, and new puppy and kitten exams! Some of her best friends are clients that she has known for almost 20 years.
Dr. Corcoran is married with 1 son, Maxwell. She shares her house with her husband Antonio Silvestre, from Brazil, 2 Irish Wolfhounds, 1 San Antonio street dog, and a Buttercup Veterinary Hospital rescue kitty. In her free time, she enjoys bike riding, swimming, riding her horse, ice skating with her son, traveling, and cooking.
Dr. Schmidt grew up in Illinois and attended the University of Iowa for her undergraduate studies. She initially pursued a pre-medicine degree at Iowa with the intention of becoming a pediatrician. During her final year as an undergraduate, she started to question that career path. As part of her searching for other careers in medicine, she volunteered for a local Iowa City veterinarian and fell in love with veterinary medicine. She had always loved animals! She raised chicks and gerbils as part of middle/high school science projects and at the time of her career change, she had a variety of pocket pets happily living in her university apartment.
After graduating from Iowa, Dr. Schmidt moved to Texas with her husband so that she could attend Texas A&M veterinary school. She graduated from Texas A&M in 1997 and started her veterinary career here at Buttercup Veterinary Hospital. She has been a part of the BVH family now for over 25 years! Throughout the years, she has enjoyed getting to know clients and their pets, practicing high quality medicine, and educating clients how to best care for their pets. She loves meeting puppies and kittens but also loves working with the senior pets to help improve their senior years.
When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband, two sons, and two dogs (plus a mouse, hamster and many fish!). She enjoys going to church, reading, and watching her boys participate in their school activities.