APEX ANIMAL HOSPITAL - Key Persons
Carla was born and raised in southern Idaho.
In 1987 she graduated from the College of Idaho as a Gipson scholar, with a double major in Biology and Psychology.
She worked at the Missoula Humane Society and Missoula Veterinary Clinic while her husband went to graduate school.
In 1995 she graduated from Washington State University School of Veterinary Medicine. She developed a deep interest in the human-animal bond. She was active
Dr. Jordan Hughey followed her father's footsteps and childhood dreams of becoming a veterinarian. She graduated from Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine in 2007. Dr. Hughey practiced both small and large animal medicine and surgery at two practices in Michigan until relocating to Helena in 2020. Dr. Hughey enjoys general medicine and surgery and has special interest in preventive medicine and dentistry.
Dr. Hughey resides in the Helena area with her husband and 2 children. They enjoy their small hobby farm full of fjord horses. You can find them hitting the trails on horseback and spending time in the mountains whenever possible.
Dr. Thomi was born in Switzerland and spent most of his childhood near Basel. After graduating from technical school, obligatory military service and working as a machinist for one year, he continued his education first in England and then New York State. When the opportunity arose to work at a rural school in the Dominican Republic, he moved there without hesitation. Dr. Thomi ultimately spent over four years working and living in an isolated community, called Rio Limpio, located in the central mountain range in the Dominican Republic near the Haitian border. After leaving the Dominican Republic he first moved to Maryland and then to Colorado to complete his Bachelor of Science degree in agronomy followed a doctorate in veterinary medicine at Colorado State University.
Shortly after graduating Dr. Thomi moved with his young family to Helena. For the first year after graduation he worked at the Animal Center and completed his acupuncture training at Colorado State University. In 2000 Dr. Barkemeyer, Dr. Fehlig and Dr. Thomi opened the Companion Animal Hospital, a small and large animal hospital, on North Montana Avenue. The Companion Animal Hospital closed in 2010 after Dr.
Barkemeyer had passed away. In December 2010 Dr. Thomi and most of his staff moved to the newly constructed Apex Animal Hospital, which was designed as a modern small animal internal medicine and surgical hospital with a state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation facility. Dr. Thomi's special interests are orthopedic and advanced soft tissue surgery, but he also enjoys
challenging internal medicine cases. Although Dr. Thomi mostly works on dogs and cats, he has performed surgery on animals as small as a 6 gram toad that had swallowed a rock, to a Grizzly bear with a fractured jaw.
Jennifer completed her physical therapy (PT) degree from University of Colorado in 2000. She began her PT journey working in an inpatient/outpatient hospital setting. After a number of years of working as a human PT, she started asking the question, how could I
bring canine rehab to Montana? After developing a working relationship with both PT and DVM state boards she completed her CCRP in 2004. And then went on to pioneer a path for canine rehab in Montana that brings out the best of both PT and DVM for each canine
Rock Tape kinesiology tape techniques. Her clients also benefit from her manual therapy skills as well as her gift of being able to zero in on the painful, limiting or dysfunctional structures. Thus assisting the veterinary team to arrive at the final diagnosis.