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VETS
ANDY GREEN
Graduated from Royal Veterinary College in 1993.
My first job was in a large and busy mixed practice
in Bungay Suffolk where I worked for 2 years, before
moving to a 2 vet small animal practice in Essex for
a further 2 years. I spent the next 5 years at Stone
Lion Veterinary Centre in Wimbledon, a large multidisciplinary
hospital practice with a dedicated emergency service
and specialist veterinary referral clinicians. For the
last 2½ years there I was the Head Veterinary
Surgeon. My final move was from there to Pennards, where
I have been for the last 5 years.
I have a wide range of professional interests, including
medicine and surgery, endoscopy, radiology and ultrasonography.
For me, becoming a vet was all I ever wanted to be from
the age of 8, when I announced to my parents that I
would be a vet after spending an afternoon watching
a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis in the garden.
It has enabled me to help not only the animals that
I care for, but also their owners, who very often see
their pets as members of the family, and have all the
understandable worries and concerns you would naturally
expect where their pets are concerned.
In my spare time I love keeping fit and active. I snowboard,
hold a black belt in karate, play golf, run, and enjoy
yoga and meditation.
RICHARD EVERSON, BSc BVetMed MRCVS
Richard writes.....'I graduated from the Royal Veterinary
College in 2003 and joined a large mixed practice (20
vets) in my home town in Buckinghamshire. I worked in
the small animal department for 2 years before moving
to Sussex. In August 2006, after a further spell in
small animal practice, I joined Pennard's as an out-of-hours
vet.I hope to join the day time team from the summer
of 2009.
As you might expect I have a special interest in emergency
medicine and surgery, although I enjoy the more routine
aspects of practice too, including rabbit medicine.
I have a mischievous terrier-spaniel cross called Beetle
(homed from local charity RAIN) and a grey cat called
Heidi who is very good at eating, sleeping, and catching
leaves.
I have an allotment which keeps me busy in my time off
after a busy weekend shift and I enjoy exploring the
countryside with my dog. As I have lived within walking
distance of Bewl Water reservoir for three years my
New Year resolution for 2009 will be to finally learn
to windsurf!'
PETER VAN DONGEN
Peter van Dongen qualified as a vet at the Utrecht Veterinary
school, The Netherlands, in March 1990. He worked in
a mixed practice in Louth, Lincolnshire, UK, for 3 years,
before deciding to limit himself to small animals only.
In 1993 he joined Pennard Veterinary Group, in Sevenoaks,
Kent. From December 1996 till January 2005 he ran his
own branch practice in Allington, Maidstone. Currently
he is a Director at Pennard Veterinary Group, now a
13 vet, four branch, small animal veterinary practice.
His special interestes are surgery, orthopaedics, radiology
and, more recently, Canine Sports Medicine. He has just
set up a hydrotherapy service at his practice.
In May 1995 Peter started agility (after years of just
thinking about it!) with his Jack Russel Cross 'Basil'
(a bitch!), then 5 years old. Since then they qualified
for many finals, including 'Crufts' and 'Olympia'. Basil
won the coveted Crufts 2001 title in the individual
mini agility. Peter's little Jack Russell Cross, Sky,
is now at grade 6 and has recently taken part in the
European Open Agility Championships.
Peter passed the British Agility Club Instructors' exam
in October 1999 (first class) and then did the British
Agility Club Judging Workshop.
Peter regularly writes for various agility magazines
and web sites and has been the official British Team
Vet for the Agility World Championships for the last
seven years.
Since last year Peter has started to do yearly charity
treks, first to the Norwegian arctic,then to the Namibian
desert and this year to Machu Picchu in Peru.
PHILLIP ELLIOTT
Phillip Elliott was born in New Zealand and subsequently
trained at Massey University in the North Island. He
graduated in 1996 and then worked for 5 years in a mixed
practice (both large and small animal) in the beautiful
Hawkes Bay.
He moved to the UK in 2001 and has been at Pennard Vet
group since 2003 initially working as the emergency
out-of-hours vet and then joining the day staff in 2006.
He credits watching the tv show 'all creatures great
and small' as a boy inspired him to become a vet, and
although small animal practice in Sevenoaks and mixed
practice in the Yorkshire Dales are a world apart he
loves the job and can't imagine doing anything else.
Phil is trained in Acupuncture therapy and is offering
treatments in this, with which he has had a lot of success,
mainly treating arthritic dogs.
He also enjoys all aspects of soft tissue and orthopaedic
surgery.
When he is not working he enjoys Salsa Dancing and keeping
fit.
His wife Tammy and daughter Emily also keep him busy
at home.
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