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Greencross Vets

Forest Lake

Welcome to our clinic

Greencross Vets Forest Lake are your local team of pet care professionals, we are truly ‘passionate about pets’ and we love what we do. We offer a comprehensive range of professional veterinary services to cater for all your pet needs, ranging from preventative health care to weight loss programs through to surgery and diagnostic medicine.

Our teams are committed to providing the local community and their pets with the highest standard of veterinary care and disease prevention. We invest ourselves emotionally as well as professionally so you can be assured that your pet is in the best of hands. Our purpose is to share our love and passion for animals through the pursuit of veterinary excellence.

Our Services.

Greencross Vets Forest Lake offer a comprehensive range of professional veterinary services to cater for all your pet care needs utilising the latest diagnostic equipment.

Desexing

Getting your pet desexed (neutered or spayed) is essential to their health. All Greencross Vets facilities are completely sterile and use the latest in surgical equipment.

Vaccinations

Prevention is the best medicine. Kitten and puppy vaccinations (injections) and adult pet vaccinations prevent disease. Get your pet’s vaccinations up-to-date.

Heartworm Prevention

Heartworm can be hard to detect, but it needn’t be hard to prevent. Greencross Vets recommends year round heartworm prevention. Ask your vet about prevention today.

Dentistry

Greencross Vets offer a range of dentistry services like cat and dog teeth cleaning. Consider us your pet’s veterinarian and dentist combined.

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Ultrasound

An ultrasound is a painless diagnostic procedure that allows vets to take a closer look at your pet’s health. We only use the latest technology for the most accurate diagnoses.

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X-ray/Radiology

Greencross Vets clinics are equipped with high-quality radiograph equipment including X-ray machines, automatic processors, and X-ray view equipment.

Clinical Pathology

Clinical pathology allows our vets to analyse and diagnose health conditions. Common laboratory tests include blood tests, urinalysis, faecal tests and biopsy examination.

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Laboratory Testing

The latest in-house laboratory equipment allows our vets to perform a range of diagnostic tests to achieve accurate, rapid diagnosis of your pets’ health status.

Meet The Team

Kelly Schoormans

Kelly Schoormans

Veterinary Nurse
Kelly has worked in the industry for 20 years and adores all animals, especially helping our wildlife and frogs.

When she isn’t at the clinic, Kelly enjoys spending time outside in the yard or with her husband and two boys as well as her two beautiful dogs Clyde and Coal.

Melissa Ostrofski

Melissa Ostrofski

Veterinary Nurse
Melissa has been in the nursing industry for 30 years. She enjoys all aspects of the job, however smooching with cats is her favourite.

When Melissa isn’t working at the clinic, you will find her hanging with her big goofy dog Nate, in the garden or making and decorating cakes.

Bridget Kayali

Bridget Kayali

Bridget started at the clinic back in 2023, since then she has finished her Certificate III in Animal Care Services and Has started Her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing and CPVN in Anesthesia. When not at the clinic she can be found caring for her animals at home like her dog (Scruff) her cats (Diesel and Remy) and her many Sheep.

Tylisha Tattersall-Beattie

Tylisha Tattersall-Beattie

Veterinary Nurse

Tylisha will be found within the clinic cuddling cats most of the time and getting excited for all the wildlife brought in. She has been with the Greencross team for a decade and started her journey as a student trainee and is currently a full veterinarian nurse. Tylisha works between Greencross vets Forest Lake and Greencross Forest Lake Village as a veterinarian nurse.
She will always have a creature that she is looking after (from birds to kittens ) and has a passion for helping whenever is needed. In her spare time Tylisha may be found with her menagerie of pets or tending to her orchids.

Dr Clare Waddell

Dr Clare Waddell

Clare graduated from the University of Queensland in 1994. Clare has worked as a small animal vet at the Forest Lake Vet Surgery since 1997. She enjoys the long term relationships she has been privileged to develop with both clients and pets over this time. In her spare time she enjoys good food and wine along with camping and exploring Australia. She has a love of Shelties and her current girl Lori is the third she has had the pleasure of owning.

Dr Ian Gorrie

Dr Ian Gorrie

Dr Lori Crane

Dr Lori Crane

Lori graduated from James Cook University in Townsville in 2016. She has a passion for small animal general practice particularly enhancing her surgical and ultrasound skills. Lori has enjoyed developing relationships with clients and pets at Forest Lake over the past year and she looks forward to meeting more clients and pets in the years to come. In her spare time Lori enjoys spending time at the beach surfing, visiting her family in Townsville and patting Golden Retrievers. Unfortunately when Lori moved to Brisbane she was unable to take her elderly dog Louie with her, he now lives happily with Lori’s parents (Who feed him way too much). Her one wish is to own a Golden Retriever of her own one day.

Mary-ann Perrett

Mary-ann Perrett

Mary-Ann has been in the industry for a number of years working in both small and large animal practices in the local area. She started working with Ian Gorrie at Forest Lake in 1996. Mary-ann has a Certificate 4 in Veterinary nursing and enjoys her role as Practice Manager / Nurse. In her spare time Mary-Ann enjoys spending time with energetic grandchildren, family and friends. But travel is never far from her mind.

Sandy Williams

Sandy Williams

Sandy began volunteering with the Forest Lake clinic in 2003, and has since completed her Certificate 2 in Veterinary Nursing and joined the Greencross team in a full time nursing position. She shares her home with 2 grumpy old cockatiel men, Charcoal & Mr Missy, and her Collie X, Maddison, unable to be left behind when spotted at the RSPCA.

Sharn Andrews

Sharn Andrews

Sharn is a qualified Veterinary Nurse starting in 2009 as a little School based trainee.

She has a passion for all animals great and small and absolutely loves pigs.

When she is not in the clinic, she enjoys riding her motorbike, spending time with her dogs Bruce the handsome Great Dane cross and Dotty the adorable Bull Arab cross or her energetic little niece and nephew.

447 Waterford Road, Ellen Grove QLD 4077

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