Meet Our Team

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VETERINARIAN

Dr. Stevens grew up near Rapid City, SD. She received a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from South Dakota State University in 1991, and then her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1995 from the University of Minnesota. After working for a short time with Black Hills area veterinarians, she started working full-time in Edgemont. A year later, she founded Cheyenne River Animal Hospital in its current location. Dr. Stevens attended animal chiropractor school in Wellsville, KS, and was certified by the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association in 2008. 

Dr. Stevens married Kerry Barker in 2002. They have a daughter currently attending South Dakota State University. Dr. Stevens loves working with cattle, horses, dogs, and cats. In her free time, Stephanie enjoys spending time with family, working in their yard and garden, horseback riding, reading, and running.  

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Dr. Erica Koller grew up right here in Edgemont, SD, went to South Dakota State University in Brookings and attended veterinary school at Iowa State University. She is very comfortable in small animal surgery and bovine obstetrics. Since she is the daughter of a local rancher, she understands importance of animal well being and herd health in this area. She has also spent some time traveling to other parts of the United States and the world through veterinary medicine. She has a love of teaching and molding the next generation. She has developed an externship program for veterinary students to experience a rural veterinary clinic. Her family, including husband Dustin Ross, son Tucker and daughter Harper, are very active in the community. She loves to share her passion for rural values and traditions through modern technologies.  

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Dr. Olivia Lakatosh is from East Tennessee.  She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal Science in 2014 and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree from the University of Tennessee in 2018.  She enjoys the variety of animals she gets to see in mixed animal practice.  She first got involved with livestock during her undergraduate education, where she was on the livestock judging team.  She loves working with cattle, and her goal is to work as a team with ranchers to better the agriculture industry.  She also values providing compassionate care to people's pets.  During vet school, she spent some time here at Cheyenne River and loved the area so much she came back after graduation.  She and her husband, William (pictured below) have a Tennessee Brown Dog named Tyson, a German Shepard named Jax, two cats named KeyCat and Queenie, and a corn snake named Xerxes.  In her free time, she loves to read books.

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Dr. Annamarie Eick is from San Diego, California. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science and Management from the University of California, Davis in 2012 and her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Minnesota in 2020. Throughout school she focused on food animal medicine, but she is also enthusiastic about working with horses and companion animals. Her passion for cattle and horses began while spending time on her uncle's ranch as a child and only continued to grow while working on feedlots, ranches and equine breeding farms during college as well as a thoroughbred/cattle farm in Kentucky and an equine hospital after graduation. Dr. Eick hopes to collaborate with ranchers to maximize herd health and productivity as well as to provide exceptional care for her equine and companion animal patients. Her husband, Tim, arranged a vacation to the Black Hills a few years ago and they both fell in love with the area. In her free time, Dr. Eick enjoys running, hiking, and spending time with her pets - a horse, Ty, and a lab mix, Winchester.

VETERINARIAN

Lacy Stevens grew up on a cow/ calf ranch outside of Edgemont, SD. She graduated from Edgemont High School in 2012 and continued her education at Black Hills State University where she received her Biology degree in fall 2016. She went on to receive her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Iowa State University in the spring of 2021. She has come full circle and is back at Cheyenne River Animal Hospital, not as a vet tech this time but as a veterinarian.  She enjoys being outside riding horses, working cattle with her family, and doing yard work. 

RECEPTIONIST

Edna was born and raised in the Douglas, WY area. She and her brother grew up on ranches with a cowboy/cowman foreman father and a teacher mother. After marrying Maurice, her husband of 43 years, they ranched in WY and in 1981, moved to the Edgemont area. They moved into the city of Edgemont in 1998, staring their own business, Neville Repair. 

They have two children, Leslie (and her puppies) of Phoenix, AZ and Justin and daughters of Edgemont. Their two graddaughters are Bridget and Addison. They have two grand-puppies in Phoenix: Callie, an elderly and extremely funny Springer Spaniel, and Isacc, a young and very loving Boxer. Bridget, Addie, Grandma and Papa have a family Cockapoo dog named Toro that Aunt Leslie rescued and gave to them as a family pet.  

RECEPTIONIST

Sara is originally from Ranchester, Wyoming. Where she grew up on a ranch until she was 7 years old. Her family then moved to town and lived in the same house until she graduated from High School at Tongue River.  She then went to college at Sheridan College for a couple years and graduated with an Associate in Science degree. She then went to University of Wyoming and completed Animal and Veterinary Science specifically in Ruminant Nutrition. In college she did a semester at University of Hawaii Hilo. She enjoys traveling and reading a good book. 

REGISTERED VETERINARY TECHNICIAN

Will is from East Tennessee and received a bachelor’s of science studying Wildlife and Fisheries Management from the University of Tennessee. After working at a small wildlife zoo in Gatlinburg, Tennessee for four years, he and his wife Olivia moved to Edgemont, SD to work for Cheyenne River Animal Hospital. He graduated with his associates degree in Veterinary Nursing from St. Petersburg College in 2021 and is licensed with the state of South Dakota. He has worked with a wide variety animals, from black bears, otters, and eagles to cattle, dogs and cats to name a few. There is no animal too big or too small that he doesn’t enjoy working with. He and Olivia have two dogs, Tyson and Jax and two cats Keycat and Queenie. They also have a corn snake named Xerxes; don’t worry, they put him away at night.  Will enjoys playing guitar, brewing beer, cooking, and hiking. He is excited to provide the best care possible to any and every animal that comes through the door. 

VETERINARY TECHNICIAN

 Maddie is a hometown girl who grew up on a cow/calf operation north of Edgemont. All through school, she was involved in just about every extra-curricular there was, with basketball being her favorite. She graduated from Edgemont in May of 2019. After high school, she attended Laramie County Community College. She went in hoping to receive a dental hygiene degree, as she dreamed of for years, but soon realized that her passion was working with cattle and horses. She changed her degree to Ag Production and graduated in May of 2021. After participating in a cattle ultrasounding internship, she knew that’s what she wanted to do as a career. She is also interested in artificially inseminating cattle and starting colts. Maddie has four dogs, a couple cats, and a few horses. In her spare time, she enjoys helping her family and neighbors work cattle, going to brandings, and hunting with her dad. Sometimes, she even likes to play basketball to bring back high school memories.  

VETERINARY TECHNICIAN

 Shelby grew up on a farm/ranch near Quinn, SD. She graduated with her B.S. in Psychology from Black Hills State University and her Master's in Social Work from the University of Minnesota. Since then she has worked in a variety of occupations ranging from crisis therapist, dog sled guide, horse packer, bartender, care-giver, and historic renovator. She lives in Custer with her husband Jakob and their heeler mix, Junior. In her free time she enjoys rock climbing, baking, writing, playing music, and exploring the Black Hills. Shelby is excited to learn from the Veterinarians and staff at Cheyenne River Animal Hospital as she applies for vet school.