THE PRACTICE TEAM

Associate Veterinary Surgeon

Practice Manager/Senior Nurse

Veterinary Nurse

Student Veterinary Nurses

Mandy Moyle    VN

Maria Di Matteo VN

Sarah Gibson SVN

Our Practice is currently staffed by 3 full time veterinary surgeons, Practice Principle Rowan Lobb who joined the Practice in 1989 and senior assistant Gina Nickelson who has been with the Practice since qualifying in 1997. Emmie Stanford joined the practice in March 2005, qualifying from Bristol in 2000.

Rowan qualified in 1986 from the University of Cambridge and started practice in a mixed practice in Wimborne, Dorset where he was exposed to all species at large. Following a brief spell during 1988/89 acting as veterinary surgeon/advisor to the American Pharmaceutical Company Merck, Sharp and Dohme, he returned to his native Cornwall with his wife Wendy in 1989 to the Highertown Veterinary Clinic and became a partner with Chris Gregson in 1991. Gina qualified from the University of Bristol and immediately entered small animal practice in Truro in 1997 at the Highertown Veterinary Clinic.

We are a Veterinary Nurse Training Centre and employ only qualified listed nurses or student nurses under suitable supervision. This entails operating under strict guidelines of quality from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and ensures the care of patients is under proper supervision at all levels. We currently employ 2 qualified and 2 student nurses.