Current Professional Activities

• Owner and Veterinarian of Brisbane Bird and Exotics Veterinary Services, Queensland, Australia
• President, Unusual Pets and Avian Veterinarians, Special Interest Group of Australian Veterinary Association
• Scientific and Outreach Committees, European College of Zoological Medicine
• Committee Member, Avian Chapter, Australian New Zealand College of Avian Medicine and Surgery

Children

• Only ones with fur, feathers, or scales!

Pets

• Licorice, a 15-year-old Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo
• Petey, an adult Moustache Parrot
• Wasp and Beetle, female Hahn’s Macaws
• Diesel, a Black-headed Python (Aspidites melanocephala)
• Kingston and Jamaica, Burmese cats

Hobbies

• With all of these pets, who has time? :)
• Like science fiction/fantasy books and movies
• Rowing
• Candle and Soap making

Favorite Quote

"I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
—Edward Everett Hale

What I Like Most About VIN

The sense of community and the variety – of cases, of approaches and of VINners!