Isabella graduated from Melbourne University in 1999 and after 5 years of large animal work in Leongatha, she left for the UK with new husband Will. After several years working as a small-animal locum in England, she returned to Australia with Will and their growing family, settling on the Mornington Peninsula.

Isabella joined the Frankston Heights team in 2009, before successfully completing a year of postgraduate study in Internal medicine in 2010. Isabella continued her studies and was awarded Membership of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in Small Animal Medicine in 2012, an honour achieved by a relatively small number of general practitioners. Among other interests, she had devoted particular study to the management of diabetes.

Isabella is our lead clinician and clinical manager. She is a natural detective and problem-solver, loving the challenge of unpicking the knot of a puzzling diagnosis, crossword, sudoku, or whodunnit. Vets tend to be split into two groups, favouring either deep study into one subject, or shallower study into a wide range of subjects. Isabella sits between those groups, searching for both a breadth and depth of knowledge. She shares the responsibility for keeping us at the forefront of whatever medication, technique, tool or thought is considered the best available.

Simone began her veterinary career in mixed practice on the peninsula. After a sojurn of 5 years in the UK working as a small animal veterinarian she returned to Australia and joined our team at Frankston Heights.

Simone shares her life with menagerie of rescue cats and dogs and throughout the years has developed an interest in internal medicine particularly of the feline variety.

Simone is currently enrolled in Sydney University’s Centre for Veterinary Education’s year long course in Feline Medicine.

Veena graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2010. Her career has seen her work as a small animal veterinarian from Gippsland to Singapore. We’re lucky that she chose to settle locally, coming to work at Frankston Heights at the start of 2020. Veena joined us immediately before lock-down, but even split-teams and carpark consulting couldn’t dent her kindness and enthusiasm for caring.

Veena is a generalist, meaning that she is skilled in both surgery and medicine – however, it is in the consulting room with a complex medical case where she really shines. She completed her Master of Veterinary Studies post-graduate degree in 2017.