Lauren Alexader

Lauren grew up in Melbourne but moved to Perth to study. After graduating from Murdoch University in 2010, she worked in Western Australia for 2 years before moving to Newcastle and joining the Greencross family. These days her main interests are in small animal medicine and she enjoys furthering her study in this area. Lauren lives with her husband, Jax the cat and Mira the Cattle dog

Cheryl Salisbury

Cheryl has been a certificate IV qualified veterinary nurse at Greencross Vets Lambton since 2011. Cheryl was accepted into University in 2018 and whilst we see much less of her in the clinic, we are excited about her journey. Keeping her busy at home is her young son and geriatric DSH cat. Cheryl’s son has a love of animals but prefers spiders, crocodiles, snakes and lizards. When Cheryl is not at work or University life is spent, surfing, riding bikes, trips to the skatepark, going on adventures and just generally keeping active.

Dr Jeff Howe

Jeff graduated Veterinary Science in 1983 from the Sydney University with honours and has worked in Newcastle and surrounding areas for the duration of his career. Jeff has a special interest in small animal surgery, particularly orthopaedic surgery. Jeff is also fond of utilising the ultrasound as a diagnostic tool. In his spare time Jeff enjoys gardening and bush walking with his partner, catching up with his adult children and cycling around Newcastle

34 years experience as a vet and doing orthopaedics
wide variety services including :
Fracture repair – from tiny breeds with their fractured radius and ulna, thru to giant breeds with fractured femurs, and any where in between
Cruciate repairs – deangelis extra capsular repairs, levelling osteotomy procedures – both TTO and TPLO
Luxating patella repairs
Remoral head osteotomies and hip toggle procedure
Fully equipped with modern orthopaedic equipment.
Converse with veterinary orthopaedic specialist about difficult cases
Keeps up to date by attending hands on, practical , veterinary orthopaedic workshops

I am very conscious of the human pet bond, and live by the motto- first do no harm- if I think the problem requires specialist intervention I will advise this

Dr Lauren Alexander

Lauren grew up in Melbourne but moved to Perth to study. After graduating from Murdoch University in 2010, she worked in Western Australia for 2 years before moving to Newcastle and joining the Greencross family. These days her main interests are in small animal medicine and she enjoys furthering her study in this area.
Lauren lives with her husband, Jax the cat and Mira the Cattle dog

Elle Fuller

Elle is a qualified veterinary nurse and has been apart of the Lambton team since 2013.
At home Elle has two dogs Moss and Elvis and enjoys travelling and spending time in, or by the ocean with friends and family.

Hannah Conley

My name is Hannah and I am a Certificate IV qualified Veterinary Nurse (2015). Whilst completing my course I was fortunate enough to undertake my work experience hours with both the Wyong and Lambton Greencross teams. At home I have 3 goats (Dusty, Chief and Snickers) and 1 beautiful but naughty Cattle Dog Elenora. In my spare time I love going horse riding, doing yoga and taking Nora for long beach walks with my partner.

Page Power

Page has been at Greencross Vet Lambton since 2011, she is a qualified Certificate IV Veterinary Nurse and also runs the clinics puppy school and canine commandos classes. Page holds her her Certificate IV in Companion Animal Services through DELTA and she has a keen interest in dog training and behaviour. Page also visits local schools with Rumour, her American Staffy; educating children on dog bite prevention and safety around animals. At home Page has 2 horses, 3 mini schnauzers, 1 hairy maclary look a like, 1 mini foxie, 1 American Staffy and 1 German Shorthaired Pointer. She also has a couple of rescue rabbits, 4 turtles, 2 pythons and some chickens.

Rachelle Wells

Rachelle joined the Greencross team in 2016 and has been a certificate IV qualified veterinary nurse since 2005. Additional qualifications include a certificate IV in dog behaviour training( 2004) and a Bachelor of Arts (2015). Continued education is important to Rachelle and she regularly attends industry seminars, events and even helps facilitate some internal workshops. Rachelle is owned by a Pomeranian cross named Hannah and the two can often be spotted together at local dog friendly beaches.