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!