Meet the Team
Andrea Gutierrez, DVM
Dr. Andrea Gutierrez was raised on a small farm in Wellington, Colorado and her extended family has owned and operated a cattle ranch outside of Grants, NM for over 50 years. She graduated from Oregon State University Veterinary School in 2012. In 2014, she started her own mobile veterinary practice in Dona Ana County, New Mexico.
Dr. Gutierrez currently provides preventive care, education and emergency care to clients in northern New Mexico. She is trich and TB testing certified and USDA National Accreditation Category II, enabling her to do regulatory work with larger operations and livestock markets. She is a member of the American Association of Small Ruminants, American Association of Bovine Practitioners, and a participating veterinarian in the NM-ALIRT program.
Dr. Gutierrez’s passion to become a veterinarian and provide services to the food animal producers in a need-based area has brought her and her family to northern New Mexico. An area that she hopes to serve for many years to come.
Star Mathis
Star is a vet tech and practice manager for SWVS. Star has worked in veterinary medicine as a technician on and off for 27 years. She attended Texas A&M University where she studied Biomedical Science and Animal Science. Her passion was in the study of animal behavior. The Mathis family has been in northern New Mexico since 2003 though Star's husband fell in love with the area early in life. As a young family, northern New Mexico is where their hearts led them. Star always says of the sunsets and sunrises that it is like looking at a different work of art each day.
What Star loves about the job is everything...She loves the animals, the medicine, the people we get to share our days with, the friends she gets to work with. The hardest days are still the best days and Star feels so thankful that most days don't really feel like work at all.
In her spare time Star and her family run a small farm where they raise sheep, dairy goats and they show dogs together.
Jordan Duggan
Jordan is a vet tech and manages the social media/marketing for SWVS. She grew up in Kansas and received her BS in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology from Kansas State University which sparked her passion for animal care and education. She and her husband have been in New Mexico since 2016. She had worked as a park ranger and wildlife rehabilitator before finding her calling as a vet tech in 2017.
While she enjoys working with all species, bovine medicine is what she loves the most. It gives her the chance to use her background in population management and statistics. She is also currently going to school to become a Registered Veterinary Technician.
In her spare time, Jordan enjoys running in the mountains and coaching the Los Alamos roller derby team.
Zoe Mathis
Zoe is a vet assistant who works with SWVS and LAEVS. She is currently working on her veterinary technician certification, and has been working as an assistant since graduating high school in 2019. She enjoys working with all species, but horses hold a special place in her heart, just like her three mares. It’s hard to pick a favorite part of the job, she loves the medicine, handling the animals, and helping educate owners equally.