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Cheryl Torado - Nurse & Practice Manager
Cheryl joined Albany Creek Veterinary Surgery as a young Nurse in 1992 and has worked in every capacity from Nurse to Practice Manager, IT Specialist, Human Resources and keeping the whole ship floating. Cheryl’s infectious laugh and great organisational skills are closely followed by her ability to organise a chocolate cake.
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Andrea Hicks - Nurse
Andrea can boast 30 years experience in Veterinary Nursing, Veterinary merchandising and 15 of those years have been spent at Albany Creek Veterinary Surgery. Andrea has a great knowledge of Veterinary products has many years of experience in Surgical Nursing. Andrea is a fantastic and skilled nurse both in medicine but particularly in Surgery and is also our resident expert on maintaining our blood testing machines. Andrea is a member of our Puppy Preschool team.
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Kerry Kooymans - Nurse
Kerry joined Albany Creek Veterinary Surgery in 1988 and has been here since for which we are all grateful. Kerry has a wonderful way with all animals of any temperament. Kerry is experienced in every aspect of Veterinary Nursing and also looks after stocking of Medicines and Equipment. Apart from knowing nearly every client Kerry knows where to get every conceivable product to keep us stocked and running smoothly. Kerry is also a member of our Puppy Preschool team.
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Melissa Quinlin - Nurse
Melissa joined Albany Creek Vet Surgery in 2005 and has become a wonderful member of our nursing team in caring for patients through monitoring anaesthetics and post op care to reception. Melissa has a wonderful capacity to be always happy and smiling. We are all grateful for her wonderful contribution to the team. Melissa is currently completing her nurse training.
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Carmen Best - Nurse
Carmen joined us in 2009 coming in with over a decade of nursing experience including Practice management and senior nursing care. Carmen has great energy and is always looking at what needs to be done next and is a true animal lover with her menagerie of pets from cats to snakes. Carmen is another one of our abandoned and homeless kitten rescuers. Carmen adds experienced care and energy to our team of nurses looking after your pets while with us and answering your queries on the phone.
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Natalie Kurstjens- Nurse
Natalie joined us as an enthusiastic trainee vet nurse in 2009 and is currently training and studying to be a fully trained veterinary nurse. Natalie has her own pets and tells us she loves coming to work! Natalie has become a great member of our nursing team and loves to add that extra bit of care for your pet when they are staying with us.
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Jodie Hethrington - Nurse
Jodie has been nursing for 5 years and joined us in 2011 as an additional staff member to support our existing nurses. You will recognise Jodie by her friendly smile. Jodie will complete her formal Certificate IV nurse training in 2011 and is passionate about giving great customer service as well as developing her medical and surgical nursing skills.
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Irmi Chamberlain - Office
Irmi uploads and updates our data base once to twice weekly to ensure all your animals details from blood results, after-hours consultations or specialists visits are added to your pets file. Irmi does a great job in taking great pride in assuring her job is done with 100% accuracy. It is always great for the vets to know the information will be filed and recorded and thus quickly accessed when needed.
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