We are highly experienced, caring and professional veterinary team who treat your pets as we do our own.
Our Vets
Dr Mariane
Dr Mariane completed her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine in 2013 at the University of Montreal in Canada where she grew up. Being from Montreal, Dr Mariane speaks perfect French; it is actually her first language. After graduating, she started practicing in small animal medicine in different hospitals for 5 years before moving to Australia for a change of scenery and a new adventure! She joined the Thornbury Vet Hospital team a couple of months after her arrival.
Dr Mariane is particularly interested in surgery, and in anything regarding geriatric cats. Her years of practice abroad bring a nice new input to the hospital. In her spare time Dr Mariane keeps busy exploring Melbourne. She loves hiking and traveling as well as enjoying a nice cup of Japanese tea with a book or a good movie.
Dr Mariane adopted a gorgeous Persian cat named Pablo a few years before coming to Melbourne. He had been abandoned at the hospital where she used to work, and even though the plan was to keep him as a clinic cat, they bonded and she eventually took him home! And now, her adorable furry companion tagged along for this journey. Leaving him back home was out of the question!
Dr Mariane is available for consultations Tuesdays
Dr Louise
Dr Louise graduated from the college of Veterinary Medicine UCD, Ireland in 2014, which is local to where she grew up.
Upon graduation she moved to Queensland to start her first job in a rural mixed practice where she worked for 3 years treating everything from camels to cats. Despite loving the sunny state, the coffee culture of Melbourne called and so Louise made the move down to the norther suburbs where she has worked between GP and emergency clinics for the last 5+ years.
Louise has a keen interest in preventative medicine and senior pet care.
When Louise is not in work, she is either out exercising, hiking, gardening at CERES or enjoying an oat cappuccino in one of the many great café’s Melbourne has to offer.
Dr Louise is available for consultations on Mondays and Fridays
Dr Janyn
Dr Janyn graduated in 2005 from Murdoch University in Western Australia with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine & Surgery.
She started as a new graduate in the UK where she worked as a mixed animal vet for 3 years.
She came back to Australia in 2009 and started working at a busy emergency centre. She left there in 2020 and started to locum. It was by locuming at various clinics around Melbourne that she met the Thornbury Vet team and just had to stay!
Dr Janyn has done a month volunteering in Thailand at a sterilisation clinic. She has also worked doing home euthanasia and quality of life assessments for elderly patients.
Dr Janyn’s interests are emergency medicine, surgery and promoting the human animal bond.
Dr Janyn lives with her husband, two children, a cat named Duchamp, Viv the dog and some cheeky chooks.
Outside of work Dr Janyn loves travel, spending time with her friends and family, reading and art.
Dr Janyn is available for consultations Thursdays
Dr Hannah
Dr Hannah completed her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 2022 at Melbourne University. In her past life, she initially completed a commerce degree and worked in Marketing, but soon realised that her passion was helping animals and their families and decided to make the switch to veterinary medicine.
Dr Hannah is passionate about all things cats! She is owned by two beautiful kitties - Barney a cheeky British Shorthair, and Ruby a cuddly calico. She is interested in feline medicine, strengthening the human-animal bond between people and their pets, and helping our older patients live their twilight years in comfort.
In her spare time, Dr Hannah enjoys reading, going to trivia, cross-stitching, and sampling all the best brunch spots of Melbourne. Originally from Sydney, Dr Hannah now calls Melbourne home, and is excited to get to know all the wonderful pets and pet parents of Thornbury and its surrounds.
Dr Hannah is available for consultations Mondays and Wednesdays.
Dr Karmen
Dr Karmen graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2013. Initially from Malaysia, Dr Karmen is trilingual and can speak Malay, Cantonese/Mandarin on top of English. She spent the first 2 years of her career in busy small animal clinics in Singapore and Malaysia before finally settling down in Melbourne. After working in two other clinics, she joined the TVH team in December 2022.
Dr Karmen has a strong sense of compassion and empathy for her patients and prides herself in her high standard of patient care. She finds great satisfaction in working with aggressive cats as she thinks they are often misunderstood. With patience and understanding, her patients usually learn to warm up to her.
After the first 5 years as a GP vet, Dr Karmen found her passion in alternative therapies after seeing many of her geriatric and sick patients run out of options with conventional treatment. She currently certified in western herbal medicine, veterinary acupuncture and remedial massage. With a particular interest in the musculoskeletal system as well, Dr Karmen is hoping to get certification in canine rehabilitation soon.
Dr Karmen is mum to 6 furbabies (5 cats and a Pom X) - Taro, Nori, Mr Murmur, Sweetie, Soya and Miso who keep her plenty busy. And if she ever finds the time to, Dr Karmen loves creating dishes with whatever she finds in the fridge, catch up on the latest Netflix series, and start yet another DIY project.
Dr Karmen is available for consultations Fridays and every 2nd Wednesday
Dr Lou
Dr Lou has been at thornbury part time since June 2021 and loves seeing the dedicated clients and their well cared for pets!
She has been a vet since 2017 and has worked overseas as a wildlife vet and here in Melbourne as a GP and also a shelter vet.
When not at Thornbury vets she also works at a local welfare organisation as she has a special interest in improving the lives of dogs and cats less fortunate! She loves Thornbury though because the pets she gets to see there have all got such lovely homes and owners and it is so nice to see.
When not being a vet Lou likes yoga, hiking and hanging out with her own 3 legged tuxedo cat Jane.
Dr Lou is available for consultations Thursdays and every 2nd Wednesday
Dr Ash
Dr. Ashleigh Long graduated from The University of Melbourne in 2005. She started practicing in small animal medicine in Gawler, South Australia. After an enjoyable three years at this multi-vet practice, Ashleigh moved back home to Melbourne be closer to her family. After seven years as an associate veterinarian, she opened up Thornbury Veterinary Hospital in 2012 with her colleague Dr. Seina Capp.
Dr Ashleigh brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Thornbury Veterinary Hospital, and has a special passion for caring for senior pets and their ailments. Ashleigh loves running with her dogs, relaxing with a glass of wine and book. But her favourite past time is football (AFL) and she dares not mention whom she barracks for!
Dr Ashleigh has three fur babies which she loves coming home to. Tex, a senior grey tabby, is Ashleigh’s original ‘baby’ and was rescued after being left on the doorstep at her first veterinary practice. Fondly known as “Meow meow’, his favourite things are meowing, head butting, and playing kung fu kitty with those silly dogs. The other members of the family are the ‘little supermodels’, Ava is a mischievous whippet and Frankie is an adorable miniature Australian Shepherd. Dr Ashleigh also plays Aunty to a very adventurous pup, Jimmy, whom house loads for large periods of time while his mum works overseas. Dr. Ash loves the circus that results
Dr Seina
Dr Seina graduated from Melbourne University in 1993 with honours. With over twenty years of experience in Veterinary medicine, Seina’s passion is in helping your pets to live longer, happier and healthier lives and aims to work with pet owners to treat every pet with the same care and compassion she would give to her own pets.
Initially working in rural Victoria, Dr Seina saw many different species -working with horses, ostriches, pigs, sheep and cows. She also had a large caseload of dogs, cats, rabbits, and small rodents. In the country Dr Seina gained a love and a great deal of experience in surgery. After seven years in the country, Seina returned home to the inner suburbs of Melbourne and then later set up Thornbury Veterinary Hospital with her colleague Dr Ashleigh in 2012.
Seina has four pets, Freddie the newest family member is a miniature Australian shepherd, Ally a senior schnauzer X poodle and 2 very active cats Theo and Carlos. Dr Seina also had two daughters (of the furless kind) Elsie and Maisie.
Seina has also been fortunate enough to be able to volunteer her skills to pets less fortunate than our own, helping wildlife after the black Saturday bushfires, volunteering with Darwin Animal Doctors (DAD) in the Galápagos Islands and for Pets in the Park, providing free veterinary care and support for the pets of some of the most vulnerable members of our community.
Dr Sasha
Melbourne born and bred, Sasha grew up with wildlife and earth care as part of life and holidays. A Melbourne University graduate, 1993, Sasha is now providing Telehealth video and telephone consultations for Thornbury Vet Hospital patients of all species, whilst also undertaking a PhD in reptile mites and the pathogens they might share with reptiles and their people.
She comes to us with extensive experience working in mixed practice, zoos and small animal practice since 1993.
Sasha started work in mixed practice in East Gippsland (dairy and beef cattle, deer, ostrich, emus, farm cats and dogs) and then in small animal practices in Sydney and in the UK in Cardiff. Sasha was then offered a job at Singapore Zoo after she had volunteered her services there (no one else could rope a cow down or design a raceway to handle rhinos). She worked there for almost six years and became senior vet. In 2001 she returned to Australia and became a locum vet at Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary, Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo as well as in small animal practices and Night Duty at Lort Smith Animal Hospital. Sasha became a full time vet at the non profit Lort Smith Animal Hospital when offered the position of setting up and running their new Native and Exotic Pet unit in 2006, for which her skills were invaluable to cope with the growing number of exotic pets and wildlife brought in to the hospital. From 2001 to 2021 she was the Exotic Pet Registrar of the General Practice ans senior lecturer at Melbourne University Veterinary School and Hospital. During this time she developed a strong media role promoting animal welfare and improving the care of unusual and exotic companion animals, as a regular guest providing veterinary talk back advice on 774 ABC Victoria for 13 years.
Sasha currently lives in the Victorian Central Ranges with her 22 year old costume designer son and between them own 6 cats and one dog.
Sasha is now running all of Thornbury Veterinary Hospital’s telehealth appointments, and you may also see her in the clinic now and then while covering shifts from our other Vets