Our Doctors

Dr. Chadima received both her B.S. and D.V.M. degrees from Iowa State University.  She has practiced veterinary medicine in the Topsham-Brunswick area since 1979 and founded the Androscoggin Animal Hospital at its present location in 1985. She has a special interest in surgery and regularly attends the meetings of American College of Veterinary Surgeons. Dr Chadima maintains memberships in the American Veterinary Medical Association, the Maine VMA, the American Animal Hospital Association, and serves on the boards of  the Maine Board of Veterinary Medicine , the New England Association of Veterinary State Boards, and is active in the American Association of Veterinary State Boards.

Dr. Karen Freedman has been practicing veterinary medicine in the Midcoast Maine area since 1987 and at the Androscoggin Animal Hospital since 1994. She earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University. Her interests are equally divided between small animal medicine and surgery with a special interest in exotic small animals such as ferrets and guinea pigs, with a particular focus on rabbits. She is a member of the Association of Exotic Mammal Veterinarians.  Dr Freedman is a proud wife and mother of two children, and pets: Pedro & Rico (3-legged Chinchillas), Edd (a rabbit), Kiwi (a 10-year-old parakeet), Snowy (7-year-old Goldfish), and Stella her dog. She enjoys running, reading and gardening. She is an active member of the Board of Directors for the Bath Area Family YMCA.

Jon Spelke, D.V.M.

Dr. Jon Spelke received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1992 and his D.V.M. from the Virginia Maryland Veterinary school in 1999. Following graduation, he did an internal medicine and surgery internship at the Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He has a special interest in internal medicine and is particularly interested in diagnostic ultrasound. Dr. Spelke lives locally with his wife, son, and daughter and is the proud owner of three cats and a dog. Dr. Spelke enjoys being an active member of the community.

Dr. Noyes knew she wanted to be a veterinarian since she was 5 years old, so her parents tolerated a large number and variety of animals in their home until she moved away to go to veterinary college. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Animal Science in 1979 and then graduated from the University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine in 1983.  Dr. Noyes worked in private practice for a year before going to the University of Minnesota where she received her MS and PhD studying primarily respiratory disease.  Dr. Noyes became certified in Veterinary Acupuncture in 2001 through The International Veterinary Acupuncture Society.  She has worked primarily with small animals and has been on the staff with Androscoggin Animal Hospital since July 2009.

Dr. Noyes lives with her husband, 4 dogs and a cat, but animal varieties and numbers tend to change. She is lucky that her husband had more animals growing up than she did.

Sarah Sweet, D.V.M.

Dr. Sweet hails from upstate New York, and is a graduate of Colgate University where she received a BA in English in 1984.  She then embarked on an 11 year career in finance that started at Putnam Investments in Boston and later took her to New York and the world of investment banking.  It was there that she realized that life is too short to not love what you do.  She relocated back to her home turf of upstate NY and began the odyssey of fulfilling the requirements for admission to veterinary school.

She completed a second bachelors, and along the way, found her husband Jeff by wandering into the Laundromat he owned and operated.  Dr. Sweet completed her doctorate in veterinary medicine at Kansas State University in 2004, and settled on the southern Maine coast.  She worked at a large 24-hour practice in Massachusetts for the 5 ½ years prior to making the move to the midcoast of Maine.

Sarah and Jeff share their home with a motley crew of cast-offs including Bonnie and Simba, yellow lab littermates and service dog flunkies, Gracie the fat tabby and her skinny little sister Dorothy, Roger the three legged Puggle, who exerts his bad influence on them all, and their latest addition, a long haired tabby named The One Eyed Fiona.  They are avid skiers, enjoy tennis and golf in the summer, and love the climate, landscape, and hospitality of Maine, their adopted home.