Dr. Katie McDougall is originally from Billings, Montana but moved to Tacoma where she obtained her B.S. in Biology from the University of Puget Sound. She then moved to Pullman where she attended Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine and graduated in 2007. While in school Dr. McDougall took a wide variety of classes but was most interested in comparative and internal medicine.

She has chosen to make Pullman her home and lives there with her husband and two children, ages 7 and 4. They have two dogs, Maria and Two Dot. In her spare time, Katie enjoys reading, watching movies, singing and playing her guitar, as well as camping.