Hana Brownlee

Veterinary Nurse

Hana first found her love for looking after animals at a young age. She spends her free time with her enthusiastic pup Reggie and her mighty little man Tyger who became the most unlikely best friends after just a few weeks of meeting. Hana began her nursing career in 2022 and has her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing. She has an interest in all aspects of nursing and enjoys learning more every day. Hana is looking forward to growing with the team and advancing her skills and knowledge as a Veterinary Nurse. She has a huge soft spot for Staffordshire Terriers and believes their happiness is contagious from just looking at their wagging tails.

Kimberley Bolling

Veterinary Nurse

Kimberley joined the Greencross Caringbah vet nursing team in 2022 and has been working in the veterinary industry for almost two decades. She left a decade long, high level corporate finance career behind to pursue her childhood passion for animal welfare. Kimberley studied at Taronga Zoo then qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2015 and has a special soft spot for our brachycephalic squishy faced breeds. On her days off, she enjoys spending quality time with her husband, son and rescue French bulldog Agnes.

Lani Nelson

Veterinary Nurse

Lani is a veterinary nurse at Greencross Caringbah and graduated with a Certificate IV. Prior to joining our team over three years ago, Lani worked as an emergency nurse and at a specialist clinic and she has a background in nutrition. Lani committed to the well being of animals in while she was studying she volunteered at Currumbin Wild Life, working with koalas and native birds. She has a big love for the Staffordshire family and is a pet parent to a English Staffy, Eddie who is now 14.

Dr Ford Krieger

Veterinarian

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.

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.