Dr. Ubatuba is a lifelong resident of the western Chicago suburbs who grew up in a family of cat lovers!

She attended veterinary school at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, accompanied by her cats Celeste and Mona. After graduation in 2005, she moved to Bryan-College Station, Texas for a year-long rotating small animal internship at Texas A&M University. She then returned to the Chicagoland area and worked as a small animal veterinarian in the southwest suburbs for 13 years before becoming the owner of Abbeywood Cat Hospital.