UVTHC Staff

Surgery Department || Medicine Department || Small Animals || Dermatology || Anaesthesia || Pathology

Surgery Department

Dr Christine Smith DVM Diplomate ACVS
Registered Specialist
Research Interests:
Degenerative joint disease and cartilage healing; Gastrointestinal disease; Surgical management of colic

Marta Wereszka BVSc BVMS MS (ACVS candidate)
Lecturer in Equine Lameness
Senior Registrar in Equine Surgery
Clinical and Research Interests:
Abdominal surgery and post operative care of the colic patient, management of dystocia, septic joints and tendon sheaths, general soft tissue surgery, ischemia-reperfusion injury of the gastro-intestinal tract.

Andrea Bischofberger Med. vet.
Resident in Equine Surgery
Clinical and Research Interests:
Equine lameness and orthopaedics

Medicine Department

Dr Tony Mogg BVSc(Hons) PhD GradCertEdStud(Higher Education) MMedEd FACVSc(Equine Medicine) Diplomate ACVIM (Large Animals) Diplomate ACVCP FAAVPT

Senior Lecturer in Equine Medicine
Registered Specialist in Equine Medicine
Clinical and Research Interests:
Equine internal medicine, ophthalmology, cardiology and clinical pharmacology; veterinary education

Darien Feary

BVSc, MS, Diplomate ACVIM, Diplomate ACVECC
Lecturer in Equine Medicine
Registered Specialist in Equine Medicine and Critical care

Special interests:
Foal medicine and equine emergency and critical care

Liz Tee

DVM Grad Dip (Equine Medicine & Surgery)
Resident in Large Animal Medicine

Special Interests:
Opthalmology, cardiology

Shannon Harland

DVM,
Equine clinical registrar

Special interests:
General equine medicine and surgery

Juan Podadera

Med.Vet., BVSc
Resident in medical imaging

Special interests:
thorax radiology, MRI, nuclear medicine, fusion imaging

Small Animals

Chris Greenwell BVSc (Hons)
Intern in Small Animals
Interests: Small Animal Medicine

Dermatology

Dr Linda Vogelnest BVSc MACSVc FACVSc
Registered Specialist in Dermatology
Senior Registrar
Research Interests: Equine culicoides hypersensitivity (Queensland Itch); Equine, canine and feline allergies

Dr Christina Baxter BVSc
Resident in Dermatology

Anaesthesia

Dr Christina Dart Dr med vet, MSc, DVSc, Diplomate ACVA
Senior Lecturer
Registered Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia
Research interests: Pharmacology, mortality and morbidity in anaesthesia, cardiopulmonary physiology and function, pain management

Dr Joanne Rainger PhD, BVSc, BSc(Vet), DipClinStud (Veterinary Anaesthesia), MACVSc
Registrar in Veterinary Anaesthesia
PhD awarded in Pathogenesis of Strangles in Horses.

Pathology

Dr Neil U. Horadagoda BVSc, MVSc, PhD , MACVSc (Pathobiology)
Senior Veterinary Pathologist Research
Interest: Acute phase response. Respiratory disease and plant toxicosis in livestock