Welcome to Kippax Veterinary Hospital
Your Veterinarian in Holt,ACT
Call us at (026) 255-1242

Dr. Alison is one of the partners here at Kippax Veterinary Hospital. She began her career in mixed animal practice in Gerringong before moving to England. She worked there in small animal practice for four years and also managed to see some of the worlds during this time.

Michael is a Senior Small Animal Partner in the practice. He graduated from Sydney University in 1987 and after five years in country practice, started the Bateman's Bay Veterinary Hospital.

Trent graduated from the University of Queensland in 2005 and then spent his first 5 years of practice working in a mixed animal practice in Inverell, northern NSW.

Upon the completion of her studies at the University of Sydney, Kanchan made the move to Canberra in 2013 to commence her career working with small animals. In 2014 Kanchan joined the team here at KVH.

Sandy graduated from the University of Sydney in 1987. After working in Newcastle and Sydney, he returned to Canberra in 1996. He worked at Canberra Vet hospital until 2002 and then became a director of Inner South Vet Centre in Narrabundah for 13 years before coming to Kippax.

Tim grew up on a farm, deciding from an early age that he wanted to be a vet and graduated from the University of QLD in 2006. He spent the next few years working in Brisbane before heading off to the UK to work, travel and enjoy the British weather.

Carla joined Kippax Veterinary Hospital from Adelaide at the end of 2016. She is passionate about reptiles and owns several geckos, a blue tongue lizard, a couple bearded dragons, a turtle and a snake.

Louise joined Kippax Veterinary Hospital from the UK where she met her Australian husband. They are back in the country with their two young children and also brought their 2 dogs, Tippy ( a whippet ) and Panda (a jack Russell cross), over from England too.

LouEllen is one of the long-standing staff members. She started in 1999 and began her Veterinary Nursing Certificate studies in 2005. LouEllen loves nursing but still enjoys her interaction with clients while working as one of our spectacular receptionists.

Originally from County Clare, Debbie is our lovely Irish import with a little bit of fire in her belly. She has been with us since 2006, in which time she has developed from volunteer status to one of our senior nurses.

Nicole started as a nurse here at Kippax Veterinary Hospital at the end of 2009 after previously working in a small clinic and boarding kennel. She completed her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2009 and loves all areas of her job.

Nicki is one of our senior nurses. She has been a qualified vet nurse for over 10 years now. Nicki started working at Kippax Veterinary Hospital in 2007 after a three-month adventure in South Africa.

Emma grew up in Sydney and Canberra and has a background of working in the hospitality industry but decided on a career change in 2016 when she began her vet nursing studies.

Originally from Wales, Bec moved to Australia in 2009. She joined the team at Kippax Vet in February 2015. Bec completed her Cert III in companion animal services in 2014 and gained her Cert IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2016. Bec also has Dog And Animal Grooming Qualifications, which she obtained in 2018.

Vanessa is originally from South Australia and has joined us in Canberra after spending the last 3 years in Queensland, where she was lucky enough to be able to be able to help care for the beautiful sea turtles.

Yvette has been at Kippax Vet since 2006. She spent most of her employment in the Police Force and the Community Sector. She loves working with animals; it has always been her dream job and she enjoys caring for your pets and seeing them become happy & healthy (and spoilt) members of your family.

Janine began working at Kippax in May of 2013. Originally from New Zealand, Janine moved to Australia in 2009. She has 10 years experience in nursing having worked in NZ, England and 3 states of Australia.

Lori first began working with animals in 2011 with the Deakin Veterinary Clinic. In early 2014 she joined the team here at Kippax to work as a receptionist.

Kerry started working on reception at Kippax Vet in 2016. After 30 years in the public sector, she finally worked out what she wanted to do when she grew up and is loving working with all the people and critters at Kippax.

Chloe started working here at Kippax Vet in mid 2016 after completing her Cert IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2015. Chloe enjoys travelling and in 2015 she spent time in Borneo volunteering with Orangutans. More recently she travelled to the UK for 6 months on a working holiday.

In her spare time, Chloe likes watching The Bachelor and spending time with her dogs Loui the Pug and Duke the Bull Terrier and Cooper the cat

John is in his early 60’s and has worked at KVH in various roles since 1996. He is married with adult children and numerous grandchildren, and his previous career was in banking (Reserve/Commonwealth). John’s hobbies are reading, bridge, bushwalking, and travel.