Dr Ben Chen

Recently graduated from The University of Melbourne, Dr. Ben is excited to meet and care for your pets. He has an interest in surgery and neurology, and is passionate about developing his veterinary knowledge and skills.

Dr Ford Krieger

Ford studied at the University of Sydney in 1990, and in 1990 packed his degree in his backpack to work as a veterinarian all over the world: Hong Kong, Canada, the UK and finally back here in Australia last year, with Greencross Vets. He has two rowdy children and two well behaved kittens . He runs, swims and pretends to lose at tennis to his son. He enjoys turning famous and complicated recipes into meals his kids hate.

Charlie Collins

Charlie is one of our veterinary nurses at Greencross Caringbah. Charlie originally studied animal health and disease at University before deciding to go down the nursing path (best decision ever). She joined us for her Cert II in animal studies and is now currently studying her Cert IV in veterinary nursing. She always manages to sneak in a cuddle with our patients and has a major soft spot for our Rottweiler patients.

Dr Jairo Rivera

Jairo was born in Colombia. He completed his D.V.M (Hons) at the University of Caldas. After that he did 3 GradDip. in Medical Imaging. Then Jairo obtained his first Ph.D in Animal Surgery & Medicine at the University of Leon (Spain) awarding a Summa Cum Laude and patented a Bone graft. Dr. Rivera worked as a professor of animal surgery, radiology and internal medicine for seven years and then made a career shift and moved to Australia to do his second Ph.D but in Marine Biology & Microbiology at James Cook University. Dr Rivera worked as Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for several years. Jairo moved to the US and worked with Banfield Pet Hospital in Florida and returned to Australia in 2018 to join Greencross Vets. Dr. Rivera is our Veterinary Director at Caringbah and previously managed other Greencross Vets hospitals in Brookvale, Chatswood and West Gosford.

Jessica Essex

Jess is the practice manager at Greencross Caringbah. She has a Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing and has also completed Wildlife Treatment & Care with the Taronga Training Institute. Jess has been working in the veterinary industry for 6 years and joined Greencross Caringbah in 2020. She has a great passion for Australian wildlife care and enjoys working with exotic pets. Jess is also a pet mum to 2 dogs, 2 cats and 2 rabbits. In her spare time she enjoys getting out into nature to hike, rock climb and camp.

Alannah Steain

Veterinary Nurse

Alannah is our head nurse who has been working in our clinic for 8 years. She graduated her Cert IV in Veterinary nursing in 2014 and also has her Diploma in Leadership and Management.
Alannah has travelled to the Northern Territory and continues to do so to vet nurse in Northern Territory, in the Indigenous communities in East Arhem Land, where she tends to and treats mostly community dogs and cats.
She is a pet parent to her black and white cat Frankie, who she rescued from our clinic when she was only two weeks old and when Alannah is not in the clinic she can be found down the south coast and catching up with friends and family.

Celia Franklin

Celia is one of our Veterinary Nurses at Greencross Vets Urban Jungle. She brings a happy disposition and an energetic outlook! She began studying Vet Nursing in 2015 and has a passion for all animals, big and small, having grown up with cats, dogs, guinea pigs, birds, frogs, and mice. She has been riding horses for 10 years, and for the last 4 years she has owned her horse named Jacob. She loves the outdoors and tries to spend as much of her free time outside as possible.

Dr Lisa Chalmers BVSc

Lisa graduated from the University of Queensland in 1996, worked in the Gold Coast Hinterland for 2 years before working in the UK/interspersed with traveling for 7 years, before returning to Australia and settling in Sydney in 2006. She has been working at Urban Jungle since 2009. She has 3 young children and a lovely moggy cat Shane, with lower-than-average IQ and feline agility. Likes traveling, hiking, reading good books and is a foodie.