mill lane veterinary surgery
mill lane veterinary surgery
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Meet the team

joshJoshua Rusnak, Principal Vet

Joshua has obtained the Cert SAS in 1998, a post-graduate qualification in small animal surgery, awarded to fewer than 15 vets in Britain each year. He also has a special interest in radiology and ultrasound.

Joshua graduated from the University of Sydney in 1993 and has been living and working as a vet in North London for 13 years. Joshua has a cat called Bob and a Labrador cross called Millie who he adopted from the Mayhew Animal Home, and who comes to work with him every day and welcomes clients.

DSCF2703Navdeep Chhina, Associate Vet

Nav qualified from Cambridge University in 1999. She has worked in a variety of small animal practices across the UK as well as a wildlife sanctuary in Thailand and the RSPCA before setting her roots in North West London and joining our surgery.

Nav is currently settling into her new house in North London, she owns two gold fish called Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus and is looking forward to also offering a home to Tosca, the Russian Blue Cross.

DSCF2696Boka Hidalgo, Practice Manager

Boka qualified from the University of St.Ciril and Metodij in her home country of Macedonia, with a degree in Psychology. When she moved to England she studied and passed an NVQ in child care.

She joined the practice in 2007 and became our practice manager in 2008. As well as organising the team, she also helps with nursing, and has a lot of experience and knowledge of handling animals. As Boka always says, there is little difference between children and animals!

She is also the main carer for our practice cat, Halle, who she loves very much. Boka also offers a local cat sitting service for our clients.

DSCF2681Amy Flemons, Head Nurse

Amy has been working as a veterinary nurse for eight years. She qualified from Myerscough College, Preston in 2006 whilst working at a small animal surgery in her home town of Luton. She is registered with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and is a member of the British Veterinary Nursing Association. She is currently studying for the higher education diploma in clinical veterinary nursing with a view to continue onto the degree and teach veterinary nurses in the future. Amy joined the practice in September 2008. She has five gorgeous moggies: Floosy, Jazzabelle, Lickey-Split, Frank and Honey.

DSCF2686aLindsay Millar, Trainee Nurse

Lindsey joined our team in November 2009 and is currently studying for the Diploma in Veterinary Nursing at the College of Animal Welfare. She earned a distinction in the National Diploma of Animal Management in 2008 and also achieved the Veterinary Nutritional Advisor Level 1 qualification.

She has a 14-year-old black cat called Cyd who runs the family home!

BethphotoBeth Skinner, Trainee Nurse

Beth joined the team in January 2011 after moving from Yorkshire to study for an honours degree in veterinary nursing at Middlesex University. She has grown up in a veterinary family and decided that the veterinary nursing degree is the route for her. She has two labradors named Flint and Bramble, two cats named Toby and Tabby, a rabbit named Humbug and a guinae pig named Dash who all live back in Yorkshire.

PhotoofHallie1Halle, Practice Cat

Halle has a degree in cheekiness and an NVQ in sleeping. She spends her days at the practice sleeping by the computer, glaring at any dogs that dare enter her practice, helping herself to pet shop supplies and parading up and down the surgery front for the school children as they go past!

She is very lovable with the staff but can be unpredictable with visitors, particularly children; she is best admired from a distance!