Amanda Atkinson
Growing up on a farm in country Victoria with cats, dogs, sheep, goats, cows, rabbits, ducks, horses, and a pet pigeon, Amanda’s career path was set in stone. She has always had a love for animals which led her to pursue a career helping them. Amanda started her vet nursing career at the Kilmore Veterinary […]
Denise Nicholaidis
Denise always wanted to work as a veterinary nurse. She has had animals her whole life as a result of her great love for them. Working in the veterinary industry was a natural progression for her. Denise has extensive veterinary experience. She worked in Perth for 6 years as a Head Nurse. Then followed 12 […]
Tiffany Marshall
Tiffany Marshall started her vet nurse career in 1996 working for a 24 hour large and small animal practice, She graduated in 2000 winning internal vet nurse of the year award. Tiffany worked in general and emergency after hours for many years before moving onto specialty nursing at Veterinary Specialist Services (VSS). From VSS Tiffany […]
Amanda Campbell
Catrina Buchanan
Catrina has worked for 2 years as Veterinary Nurse in a regular vet clinic but decided to try emergency and has been loving it ever since.She started working with the Animal Emergency Service in April of 2016 and has become particularly passionate in gaining more knowledge and skills in patient stabilisation as well as surgical […]
Kelly Hodge
Kelly commenced with Animal Emergency Service in 2011 after a career working in customer service and working with the gorgeous koalas at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. After many years working with AES, Kelly is excited to have commenced her studies in Veterinary Science at the University of Queensland. Kelly enjoys working at AES with the interesting […]
Emily Quinn
Emily always wanted to work with animals. Her strong interest in wildlife conservation lead her to undergo a science degree in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Although Emily enjoyed her studies, she found it wasn’t hands-on enough and instead she switched to Vet Tech and then later added Emergency Nursing. Emily worked at the Australia Zoo […]
Marilie Bester
Marilie always wanted to be a vet and in grade 11, her dad helped her get work with the closest vet. From then, she progressed to becoming a nurse as she enjoys the process of nursing the patients from their arrival to when they go home. Marilie completed her studies in South Africa where she […]
Patrice Burford
Patrice qualified in New Zealand in 1995 with a Diploma in Veterinary Nursing where she worked for 10 years as a small and Large Animal Veterinary Nurse. Patrice then moved to Melbourne with her now husband where she worked in a small animal practice before moving to Brisbane where she completed her Diploma in Emergency and […]
Tamara McCallum
Tamara has always had a variety of animals through her life and always had an inkling she was going to work with animals. She just wasn’t sure how. Tamara completed a Wildlife Studies course which included some industry experience in a vet surgery. That was when she realized Veterinary Nursing was what she wanted to […]
Leigh Davey
Leanne McGrath
As Assistant Nurse Manager, Leanne has seen some interesting cases in our hospital. One of the most memorable was a Pomeranian who had received large wounds after being attacked by a larger dog. He was rushed in with shock, arrested on arrival and required CPR and surgery. After intensive nursing, he was able to go […]
Kate Wesche
Kate is a Veterinary Nurse who gained her qualification whilst working in a large mixed practice in her hometown of Mackay. She has worked with dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, horses, cattle, sheep, goats and even pigs! Kate decided to make the move down to Brisbane and AES because she wanted to continue to learn and challenge […]
Chantal Mitchell
Having worked as a veterinary nurse for years, Chantal always wanted to end up in an emergency hospital. She loves the variety of cases, the adrenaline and the best standards of care that emergency medicine offers. At Animal Emergency Service, Chantal enjoys the high levels of care and the constant drive to learn more and […]
Tracey Gierke
Tracey’s Veterinary Nursing career goes back many years to when she was still at High school, working on Saturday’s with an Equine Veterinarian in a Northern Victorian town. Growing up on a farm surrounded by many animals, especially horses, sheep, and dogs – working in the industry seemed like an obvious choice for her. After […]
Mikaila Carsburg
Mikaila has wanted to work in the animal industry since she was in primary school, about age 7 or 8. She’s always been passionate about animals, so she felt that veterinary nursing was what she needed to do. Her journey with AES started in August 2014 as a Veterinary Technology student on clinical placement. Shortly […]
Erin Friel
Rebecca Blade
Sharna Mostyn
Sharna was drawn to emergency medicine by the challenge of the fast-paced environment. She gets a thrill from seeing patients walk out the door, particularly when their unfortunate circumstance saw them admitted because of a severe accident. Her most memorable patients was an echidna that found its way into someone’s car book and became stuck! […]
Siobhan Utting
Siobhan loves being an advocate for animals who can’t advocate for themselves and finds any emergency situation exhilarating. She enjoys seeing patients who’ve been ventilated around the clock recover and go home to their families. As a vet nurse, she advises aspiring vets and nurses to never stop learning. Siobhan was drawn to Animal Emergency […]