Dr John Robertson - BVSc
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Dr Catherine Mackenzie - BVSc
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Catherine is a Scottish import from Edinburgh University. She traveled extensively on a yacht before deciding Cairns was the place to live. She has been with the Cairns Veterinary Clinic for 17 years, originally working part time while juggling a young family and eventually becoming partner.
She has a Golden retriever that loves to adopt everyone, a black cat that is very aloof, 4 horses (she fancies herself as a horse whisperer!), three kids and a husband.
She loves to unravel a good mystery medicine case and is very excited by our new in house laboratory. She also has a special soft spot for lovely old cats and would like to make them live forever. |
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Dr Dallas McMillan- BVSc
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Dallas completed his degree in Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney in 2000 and then commenced working for Cairns Vet Clinic immediately after this. He is now married with 2 children, 2 Afghan Hounds, 3 moggies and 6 horses including Arabians and thoroughbreds.
As a vet Dallas is particularly interested in the areas of skin disease, dentistry, ultrasound and equine foot care, conformation and breeding.
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Dr Kylie Forster- BVSc
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Dr Murray Gosney- BVSc
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Dr Lizzie Jensen- BVSc
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Lizzie graduated from Liverpool University (United Kingdom) in 2003. She worked in mixed practice until starting up her own pregnancy ultrasound scanning business. In 2008 Lizzie made the move to Australia and initially worked in mixed practice in South East Queensland before moving up to sunny North Queensland a year ago to take up a part time position at Cairns Vet Clinic.
Lizzie has a 3 year old daughter and spends her “free time” wondering how she used to spend her “free time” as it doesn’t seem to exist anymore! She is also the proud owner of a dog and an overly friendly duck! |
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Dr Sita Withers- BVSc
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Sita graduated from Melbourne University with a BVSc (Hons) in 2008. She traded good coffee and 15ºC days in Melbourne for pineapples, coconuts and 30 ºC days in Far North Queensland in January, after accepting a full time position at Cairns Vet Clinic. Along with her came her Border Terrier and a formerly feral moggie that made the transition to lap cat in the blink of an eye
Sita’s special interests in Veterinary Science are in veterinary diagnostics and internal medicine. In her spare time she enjoys exploring all FNQ has to offer, from the rainforest to the reef! |
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Kristy-Anne Carney – Head Vet Nurse
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Kristy-Anne moved from Brisbane to Cairns, sight unseen and has never looked back. She has been with Cairns Vet Clinic since November 2006 and completed her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing in 1999. As Head Nurse for Cairns Vet Clinic Kristy-Anne is responsible for training and mentoring new and existing nurse, ensuring all surgery equipment is maintained, organizing nurse rosters and monthly client education, just to name a few.
She is the proud owner of two dogs, “Shadow” a 12 year old Border collie and “Sky” a local gal adopted from RSPCA Cairns. In her spare time Kristy-Anne loves to explore everything that the tropics have to offer, including spotlighting for native animals. She also collects recipe magazines which are still as good as new as cooking itself is not one of her favourite past times! |
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Luigina Anderson – Vet Nurse
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Luigina is a true local, born and bred in Gordonvale. She began working at the Gordonvale Surgery in May 1987. Her household is simple made up of groups of ONE. One dog, one cat, one bird, one child (now living in Tasmania), one husband (still living at home), one house (with only one bathroom), one car and one job. My maths teach didn’t teach me how to count…
I have owned pets all my life but my dog “Zoro” a Maltese terror, oops, I mean Terrier X Poodle is a challenging, very lively and excitable little dog. My cat “Squeek” is a quiet, loveable grey tabby and never meows, hence the name. My bird, “Bubbles” a budgie, talks all day long.
In her spare time Luigina likes to spend time in her garden and laze on the beach.
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Janet May – Vet Nurse
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Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Janet qualified originally as an Enrolled Nurse in 1991 before retraining and qualifying as a Vet Nurse in 2000 through the Royal College of Vet Surgeons United Kingdom. She worked at Edinburgh Uni for training and then moved to a small animal practice in Edinburgh. Janet had already visited Australia as a backpacker and in 2001 decided to come back for good and started work as a Vet Nurse in Bowral, NSW before moving to Cairns.
Janet loves to travel (obviously) as well as camping and cycling. She has a pet Rottweiler called Douglas – named so because having had to re-home 2 dogs due to relocating she had decided no more dogs, so had to name him Douglas so I remained dugless! |
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Shereece Kaden – Trainee Vet Nurse
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Shereece was born in New South Wales but raised in Far North Queensland. She grew up surrounded by plenty of animals including dogs, cats, birds, geese, ducks, chickens, turkeys, peacocks, fish, sheep, horses, guinea pigs (just to name a few).
In her spare time Shereece has helped to nurse injured and sick wildlife and also spent 2 years as a wildlife keeper in a nature park where she got to handle native animals such as snakes, crocodiles, lizards, wombats, koalas, dingoes, wallabies and kangaroos.
Shereece is currently studying for her Certificate IV in Vet Nursing.
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Liz Rice – Vet Nurse
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Kellyanne Kemble – Vet Nurse
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Donna Salecich – Vet Nurse
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Asami Sakamoto – Trainee Vet Nurse
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Asami was born in Japan but made the decision to move to Cairns 9 years ago. She has a Bachelor of Science – Zoology Degree and prior to coming to Cairns Vet Clinic was a wildlife keeper at the Cairns Wildlife Dome. Asami started with Cairns Vet Clinic in 2008 initially as a Kennel Attendant, however due to her love of animals decided she wanted to continue to develop her skills and knowledge in this area and is now studying towards her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing.
In her spare time when she’s not studying or working Asami is also a volunteer wildlife carer which requires her to look after orphaned and injured wildlife animals. She is also the proud owner of a pet Carpet snake called “Wasabi”. |
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Sarah Dinsey – Trainee Vet Nurse
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Karien Kleemann – Practice Manager
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Kristy Jaunzems – Client Services Officer
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Kristy started with Cairns Vet Clinic in 1997 and graduated in 2004 with her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing. Kristy is now the clinic’s Client Services Officer and is responsible for ensuring that all our clients receive professional and friendly service at all times.
For the last 7 years Kristy has volunteered at the Cairns City Kennel Club, teaching wayward dogs and puppies to become better companions for their owners and in her spare time she attends agility trials with her dog Jemma as well as navigates for her husband Neil in their race car. They have even been to Targa Tasmania! |
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Jo Gries – Receptionist
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