Dr. Hope Chisnell

Mobile Surgical Veterinarian DVM, DACVS (SA)

Dr. Chisnell grew up near Tappan Lake, Ohio, but spent many weekends as a child visiting family in Pittsburgh. She graduated summa cum laude from College of Wooster, with a BA in Biology. After undergrad she went straight into veterinary school at The Ohio State University, graduating in 2010.

Dr. Chisnell moved to Pittsburgh to complete a small animal rotating internship in 2010. She became the first resident at PVSEC in 2011 and finished a three-year small animal surgical residency in 2014. She was hired as an associate surgeon directly following this residency and has been practicing at this hospital for almost 15 years. She has a diverse experience in soft tissue, orthopedic and neurologic surgeries, but has particularly enjoyed the challenges of trauma/emergency surgeries, wound management and urogenital surgeries. Dr. Chisnell has had an active role in the rotating internship, surgical internship and surgical residency programs, serving as a house officer advisor and an internship committee member since 2015. 

Dr. Chisnell is excited to join the MOVES team and provide a unique surgical service to the community she has worked with for years. Outside of work, she is very active and loves spending time outside, working out and traveling. Every year she looks for a new race or fitness challenge, and has completed several distance runs, a triathlon, the Rachel Carson trail challenge and canine obstacle runs (her favorite). She shares her home with two cats, Kinta and Bunji, and a Malinois/bull terrier Bacon.