Meet Our Team

Edwin Smith

Dr Edwin Smith graduated in 1989 from the University of Melbourne and headed for the green hills of Korumburra in South Gippsland. After wrestling in the mud with calvings and downer cows for nearly 5 years, Edwin decided to head for the not-so-green hills of Central Victoria. This 3-year stint with mainly dogs cats and horses saw him develop an interest in small animal surgery. The highlight of this time in mixed practice was spaying a 120kg pig! Edwin joined Dr Tom Hart's Niddrie Veterinary Clinic with Dr Anne Woolley as a fulltime associate in June 1997. Edwin enjoys general practice and loves talking to people about their pets. His special interests are general surgery and medicine. Edwin spends as much time as possible at home in Central Victoria with his wife Mandy and three kids, as well as the family's menagerie.

Anne Woolley

Veterinarian

Anne graduated in 1975, and has since developed a special interest in feline medicine by achieving her membership in the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists, and also has a special interest in skin disease and behaviour. Anne looks after her dog, cat, budgie and lovebird at home. Her interests include catching up with her daughter, tennis and piano. Anne has been at the clinic most of her career, and is currently working part-time on Mondays and Wednesdays, as well as every fourth weekend.

Phil Davies

Veterinarian

Phil has returned from his 5-year hiatus in the UK to his position at Niddrie, having previously worked there between 2007-2010, and loved it so much he decided to come back! His time away in the UK working for a large busy clinic has seen him perfect his ultrasonography, medicine and diagnostics, and worked with many pocket pets and rabbits. He has performed countless rabbit neuterings and dentals, and even castrated Degus and Chinchillas, and enjoys getting bogged down in difficult medical cases.
Phil and his wife have two children at home, Annie born in 2013 and Dylan in 2014, and is looking forward to finally staying in one place long enough to amass a menagerie of his own. Orla joined the family in 2017, a Cavalier that loves a cuddle at any time.

Sharon Pham

Veterinarian

Sharon finally graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2017, after 10 long long years of tertiary studies. She is a local, having gone to high school at what used to be "Niddrie Secondary College". She especially enjoys working with animals of the feline variety, after working at a busy cat shelter for 6 years. When she isn't at the clinic, you can find her in the midst of nature or watching live music.

Amelia

Veterinary Nurse

Amelia is currently studying Certificate IV veterinary nursing and has been with us since 2013, having previously worked at a busy cattery.She has always had a passion for the well-being of animals. She has one cat at home, Bertie, who has the ability to eat half his own bodyweight in a single day!  But she also loves and cares for the clinic cat Charlie (who has her wrapped around his little paws), often feeding him morsels from her lunch and dressing him in various outfits. Amelia has got a friendly face, bright smile, and is always up for a good chat.

Jacqui

Veterinary Nurse

Jacqui started working at NVC in June 2015 after playing with turtles in Fiji. She has recently become a qualified vet nurse and is loving every minute of it. Jacqui grew up in Metcalfe and at home she has two cats, Lucy the lab and a mastiff cross called Mike. She loves playing sport and watching the Pies win (occasionally). She has uncontrolled giggling fits and loves to cuddle all the kittens and puppies that come throught the clinic doors.

Zoe

Veterinary Nurse

Zoe has been working at the clinic for a couple of years after school, weekends, and during holidays. She is currently studying Medicine in Sydney but comes back to say hi during the holidays. She is a keen dancer and sports fan, and her levels of energy and vivaciousness puts us all to shame. She has a Dalmation at home called Dexter, who takes her mum for a walk every day!

Alice

Veterinary Nurse

Alice started working with us in 2017. Before then she completed weekly work experience with us at our clinic after returning from a semester abroad at the University of Hawaii. Having completed a Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience, she has now achieved her dream of studying Veterinary Medicine. She has two spoodles at home called Jessie and Teddy, although she would have many more pets if she could. Every minute she is not at the clinic or university she is at the beach surfing. She has a soft spot for Beagles but will generally cuddle anything with fur.

Grace

Veterinary Nurse

Grace began working with us in February 2018. She has now completed her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing. She loves to spend time and play around with her two spoilt cats Buddy and Ash, who definately keep her on her toes! In her down time, she enjoys going out into the country to her local barn and riding horses (Amigo is her favourite horse). Grace has a passion for water sports in the summer and skiing in the winter months, as long as the weather is too extreme for the temptation of watching Netflix on the couch.

Stephanie

Veterinary Nurse

Stephanie started her Veterinary Nursing certificate IV in January 2018 and is currently employed as a trainee veterinary nurse at the Niddrie vet clinic. She loves animals and has a puppy golden retriever at home as well as a cat called Simba. She enjoys the sun (sometimes too much) and spends a lot of her time by the beach or the pool.  

Tanya

Veterinary Nurse

Tanya joined us in 2019 after having worked at another clinic for many years, and has a cert IV in veterinary nursing. Tanya is a big fan of camping with her family and spends all her spare time looking after her two girls and riding her horses Count and Casper. She has a Weimeraner cross named Kirra and a cat called Pepe. Tanya loves a chat and always has a big smile for all the furry and furless friends that come through the door.

Charlie

Charlie is the clinic cat, and enjoys sleeping on the diary whenever we need it. He loves to greet all the cats and dogs as they come in! He's often seen leaping on the front desk to everyone's surprise, and enjoys a pat- however he does sometimes think hands are a hunting game, be warned!