Amy has been working with animals since the age of 16 and has been a vet nurse since 2010.Before working in private practice, Amy worked in welfare for 10years, treating and caring for shelter animals (including cruelty cases and animals with behavioural issues) in a fast-paced environment with a heavy workload.

Amy has an interest in native and wildlife and providing a high standard of care to all patients.
In Amy’s spare time she is a keen wildlife photographer (winning second place in the local Wild about Shellharbour photography competition), and enjoys spending time with her pet dogs, cats and 23-year-old blue tongue.

Dr. Graham joined the team as an associate vet in 2024 after working as a vet for over 10 years in both South Australia and New South Wales. Graham has a particular passion for both companion animal surgery and wildlife medicine. He also really enjoys spending time in consult chatting to owners and getting to know them and their pets. Graham’s favourite thing to do outside of work is spending time with his family.

Jairo was born in Colombia. He completed his DVM (Hons) at the University of Caldas (1999). After that he did 3 GradDip in Medical Imaging (Radiology, Ultrasound, CT and MRI). Then Jairo obtained his first PhD in Animal Surgery & Medicine at the University of Leon (Spain) awarding a Summa Cum Laude and patented a Bone graft (2005). Jairo worked as a professor of small animal surgery, radiology and internal medicine for seven years and made a career shift and moved to Australia and completed his second PhD in Marine Biology & Microbiology at James Cook University (2012). Then he worked as Postdoctoral fellow at the ARC centre of Excellence at James Cook University until 2015 and was awarded The Trop Eco Award for Outstanding Research and developed several Crown Of Thorns Starfish control Methods. After that he moved to Florida and worked as Associate Veterinarian at Banfield Pet Hospital (2017-2018) and moved back to Australia and worked as Associate Veterinarian and Veterinary Director at various small animal clinics. Then he went back to work again with Banfield Pet Hospital in Fresno, California (2023-2024). Jairo moved to Shell Cove with his family and is working as Associate Veterinarian at OurVet Shellharbour.
When he is not on the job, he loves traveling with his family and seeing new places, diving, hiking, canoeing, camping, fishing, playing soccer, riding motorbikes and doing archery.

I’ve been a veterinary nurse for eight years and have recently joined the OurVet team after relocating to the Illawarra area with my three dogs and cat.

My favourite aspect of nursing is patient care. From making sure hospital and surgical patients are as comfortable as they can be while they visit us, to talking to owners about what they can do at home to provide gold standard care to their pets day to day, I love it all!

I started working for OurVet in 2019 when I moved from Cronulla to Shellharbour. Whilst studying vet nursing in 2015 I got experience working as a lead kennel hand for a dog rescue in Ingleside for 4 years. I am originally from Manchester in the UK and moved to Australia with my partner in 2010. In England I went to University and received an B.A. Honours degrees in popular music and recording. I have 2 dogs, Rufus a 10 year old Cavoodle and Buzz a 6 year old Lowchen. When I am not working I spend most of my time with my 2 year old and 1 year old sons, Theo and Harry. I enjoy going to the beach with family, catching up with friends and travelling to new places.