Meet Our Team

Isaac is an experienced veterinarian having worked with large and small animals for several years in the Tamworth region and across the United Kingdom.

He enjoys the veterinary variety that comes from a thriving regional town and has a special interest in cattle work and small animal orthopaedics.

Isaac leads the amazing team and is focused on providing quality care for all animals in our community. In his spare time you’ll find him running with his kelpie Winnie or spending time with his family and friends.

Laura graduated from the University of Queensland in 2021 and began working at the practice shortly after. She is originally from warm and sunny Queensland so moving to Tamworth has been a bit of a change! Her interests include surgery, ruminant medicine and anything exotics and wildlife.

Outside of work, Laura enjoys camping and hiking, or reading a good book on the couch with her cat, Ravioli, who was adopted from the clinic after some gentle encouragement from my colleagues! Ravioli now lives a happy and spoilt life.

After growing up in Dubbo, Sam ventured South to Wagga Wagga to attend Ag College and undertake his Veterinary Studies. Sam enjoys all aspects of a mixed veterinary practice and feels right at home working up challenging cases in the clinic but also thoroughly enjoys getting out on the farm to do anything related to cattle, equine or otherwise.

When he’s not at work, you’ll likely catch him out in the sun, at the beach or playing any type of sport, but mostly rugby! Sam particularly enjoys the social side of sport and living in a big country town.

Lily grew up in Central West NSW surrounded by many other animal lovers and a supportive rural community that helped foster her passion for becoming a vet.

After school, Lily spent a year travelling and studying Yoga overseas before returning to study veterinary science at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga.

Lily has a passion for both large and small animal medicine, with a keen interest in all animal species and moved to Tamworth to begin her veterinary career at Tamworth Veterinary Hospital in 2023.

In her spare time she enjoys camping, getting into the ocean, practicing or teaching yoga or spending time with her family and her cream kelpie ‘Nulla’ and kelpie x ‘Frog’.

Ciara grew up in Melbourne before heading to Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga to pursue her studies. The big rural towns prevailed over the big city lifestyle, and Ciara moved to Tamworth to start her career at TVH. 

Ciara is keen on both large and small animal aspects of veterinary practice and is excited to experience the variety that is available in rural NSW. Outside of work she enjoys traveling and any outdoor activities such as camping, skiing, relaxing on the beach or walking her Labrador ‘Moose’. 

Ciara loves sport (although still prefers AFL to rugby) and will find any excuse to head out with her friends.

Melissa grew up on farms in the Tamworth area, and after a stint away to attend University returned home in 2004 with Sean, her husband who is a school teacher. The family has since expanded to include Jethro and Tabitha and fur child Kaiyo, as well as a variety of nephews and nieces.

Melissa works part time, and when not at the clinic can be found spending time busy with her other loves, Trinity Church and Family. Though they say never to work with children or animals, Melissa does both, running a weekly children’s playgroup for her Church (if you bring in a small child to a consultation Melissa is likely to sing to them)!

Following further studies, Melissa was admitted as a Member of The Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists by examination in Veterinary Behaviour.

She is also a Stress-Free Accredited Veterinarian with a silver level low stress handling certification.

Michelle was born in Auckland, NZ and after finishing her Bachelor of Arts degree, went backpacking and lived in the UK where she met her husband. After a few years in the UK, Michelle and her husband continued traveling and ended up in Sydney where her veterinary adventure began.

Michelle and her family live on a large hobby farm along with two cheeky dachshunds, two rescue cats, a collection of horses including a brumby, three inquisitive chooks and a small herd of quiet Belted Galloway cattle. She enjoys small animal surgery, particularly on exotics such as rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, rats, mice and wildlife, as well as small animal dentistry work.

When she’s not in the practice, Michelle is teaching part-time at TAFE in the Animal Care Section. She also enjoys playing touch footy, yoga, pilates, dance and watching her son play hockey.

Since graduating from CSU Wagga in 2019, Hugh has built a diverse career in Veterinary medicine.

He spent over five years in Quirindi, where he worked in mixed practice and feedlot consultancy. During Covid he broadened his expertise with a six-month role in Victoria focusing on dairy, feedlot and pig consultancy.

Hugh has also pursed further training in equine dentistry and small animal ultrasound, broadening his skills across a range of species and disciplines.

At home, Hugh and Mel are proud parents to two young boys, Flynn and Humphrey.

Gina grew up on a cattle and sheep property near Boggabri NSW. Gina has spent the past few years working in Wollongong for a bit of a sea change, but has since moved closer to home after she had her son.

She has 3 Labradoodles, a poodle, 2 human babies and one very patient partner, Ben. Gina enjoys small animal medicine and surgery but likes to dabble in all aspects of veterinary work.

Lauren started working at the clinic in 2018 and completed certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2019. Her main interests are in anaesthetics, surgical nursing and neonate care.

She has two American Staffordshire terriers, Harley and Dotti and an axolotl named Peanut. Lauren has a small hobby farm on 25 acres about 15 minutes out of Tamworth, which is home to four of her potty sheep.

When she’s at work you can usually find Lauren riding her motorbike, wakeboarding or water skiing at Chaffey Dam or with a potty lamb or two following her around like they haven’t been fed a day in their life!

Heather comes from Green Valley near Inverell. After finishing high school, Heather went to Agricultural College in Emerald, QLD where she completed a certificate IV in Beef Management.

Heather has experience working at a Vet Clinic in Guyra before moving to Tamworth and completing her Certificate IV in Vet Nursing.

She enjoys working in the vet industry because every day is different and she gets to experience and see interesting cases.

Georgia originally comes from the Blue Mountains but has now called Tamworth home for many years.

Georgia went to Yanco Agricultural School before working as an animal health attendant at JBS and Killara. She then worked at a cattle breeding company before joining the TVH team.

She loves horse riding, campdrafting, team sports, and her rescue dogs ‘Kylo’ (Labrador), ‘Molly' (groodle) and ‘Dexter’ (toy poodle).

Georgia loves working in the industry because she understands how much our animals mean to their owners. She likes to see the relief on peoples faces at the end of the day when they know their best friend has been cared for.

She has a special interest in pathology, sonography and emergency vet nursing. 

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Addy grew up in the French countryside and immigrated to Australia in 2006. She has a background in Business and Administration and went on to study vet nursing at Tamworth TAFE where she graduated in 2022.

Her favourite part of being a vet nurse is tending to and medicating hospitalised patients, assisting with surgeries and neonate care.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters, travelling, or at the family farm with her gorgeous dog Luna and their two cats Leo and Felix.

Marjolyn was born and raised in The Netherlands before moving to Australia in 1995.

Married to Brian and mother to Amber and Caleb, she is a passionate dressage rider and event coordinator.

Home is in Moore Creek which the family shares with their 3 horses, 3 dogs and an abundance of wildlife.

Annette has previously worked as a dental receptionist and nurse, and now enjoys working part-time as a veterinary receptionist & office administrator.

She enjoys traveling overseas, going to the gym and spending time with her fur babies, family and especially her grandchildren.

Abby

Stacy comes from Bathurst, NSW and is currently studying for a certificate 2 in animal studies. She has previous experience as livestock coordinator, stockperson and head stockperson on various feedlots and stations in NSW and QLD. 

Stacy’s favorite part of working at TVH is the endless puppy cuddles and seeing the love and connection between humans and their pets. She also likes the non-stop learning and knowledge from the vets and that no two days are the same. 

She has a black labrador, ‘Koda’ and a QH X stock horse, ‘Tangles’.