Ellie joined the Valley Veterinary Hospital in 2004. Although the youngest vet on the team, she has competence and experience beyond her years.
Ellie grew up on a cattle property in the Hastings Valley and has competed to National level in Showjumping. This has given her an excellent grounding in large animal work at the Valley Vets.
Her special areas of interest include Equine Dentistry and complicated medical cases of all species. Ellie is passionate about Continuing Education and to this end has attended an Equine dentistry workshop, conferences on small animal medicine and surgery as well as attending the well renowned Bain Fallon equine conference. She also won a scholarship to attend the 2005 Cattle Medicine conference in Adelaide. She is currently completing a Distance Education course in Small Animal Medicine and plans to sit for her Membership exams in 2008.
Despite all this hard work, she still finds enough energy for a busy social life and manages to keep fit bushwalking and jogging.
Although Ellie has left us for travel in the UK, Europe and South America, we are all hoping she will return one day, and have left her on our site just in case!!