THE TEAM
Choose the veterinarian who sees your pet
Five veterinarians and nine nurses work at Riverside Avenue. You can request the same person at every visit — for a pet with a long-term condition, we strongly recommend it.
5
Veterinarians
9
Registered nurses
54
Years of combined practice
7
Languages spoken
The people who will see your pet
Each profile shows the conditions that veterinarian handles most often, so you can pick before you book.
Dr. Michael Nguyen
Internal Medicine · Lead Veterinarian
Leads the internal medicine service and the clinic. Kidney, liver, hormonal and digestive disease.
14 years in practice · English, Vietnamese
Dr. Amelia Hartley
Surgery & Dentistry
Performs the clinic’s soft-tissue surgery and rebuilt the dental service around saving teeth.
11 years in practice · English, French
Dr. Priya Raman
Feline Medicine
Holds cat-only consulting hours in the feline wing, where dogs are never present.
9 years in practice · English, Tamil, Hindi
Dr. Tomas Okonkwo
Emergency & Critical Care
Runs the overnight and weekend emergency service: trauma, respiratory distress and poisoning.
12 years in practice · English, Igbo
Dr. Sofia Almeida
Rabbits & Small Pets
Dedicated hours for rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets and hamsters. Dental disease and gut stasis.
8 years in practice · English, Portuguese
Nine registered nurses, and one of them is always monitoring anaesthesia
Our nurses run the laboratory, place intravenous catheters, monitor every anaesthetic minute by minute and hold the free weight and dental clinics. They are the people you will speak to most often.
Anaesthesia monitoring
One nurse stays with your pet from induction to recovery, recording vital signs every five minutes.
In-house laboratory
Blood, urine and cytology are run by our own nurses, which is why results take thirty minutes.
Free nurse clinics
Weight, diet and dental checks at no charge, bookable without seeing a veterinarian.
Request the veterinarian you prefer
Pick a person, a day and a time. If they are away, reception will tell you before you confirm.