Doris Beck BVSc MACVSc

Graduated from Sydney University 1990 with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science (first class honours).  After graduation Doris worked in Adelaide for 18 months before travelling to Europe and working as a locum in England for 2 years. After returning to sunny Australia she locumed in Canberra and Adelaide for 7 months before starting work at WCVH in March 1995.

In 2000 she completed her examinations to become a Member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in Internal Medicine.  She has also completed 2 Postgraduate Foundation courses in Internal Medicine and one in Behaviour.  In 2003 Doris, joined with Richard and Meredith Phillips to become an owner of WCVH. She additionally runs our Puppy Preschool program and is our practice behaviour expert.

Her special interests are Small Animal Medicine and Behaviour.

She is also a part time instructor at the ACT Companion Dog Club

She has 2 pets, Tia (Domestic Longhair Cat) and Lexie (Cross bred Deerhound).

Meredith Phillips BVSc MVSt

Meredith decided to become a vet at 10 years of age due to a love of animals and an interest in scientific thought.  After graduation Meredith worked for 2 years at Wyong Veterinary Hospital on the NSW central coast caring mainly for companion animals with a small percentage of horse cases and racetrack work.  The next step was a 5 year stint in the United Kingdom doing locums for a variety of practices, with the final 2 years spent in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.  In 1997 she returned to Australia with Richard and settled in the ACT in 1998. 

Meredith has completed her Masters of Veterinary Clinical Studies programme at Murdoch University.

Meredith has a special interest in ultrasonography and is currently enrolled in the University of Sydney Distance Education sonology course to further hone skills in this area. She also enjoys hosting school groups through the hopsital teaching children about animals and runs emergency first aid courses for pet owners.

Meredith has 3 pets, a Border Terrier named Carslile and 2 rabbits Black Beauty and Pretty. 

Richard Phillips BVSc MACVSc

Richard graduated from The University of Queensland in 1989. He spent the next three years in Tamworth in a mixed practice treating farm animals as well as local pets.

Travel abroad beckoned and he spent five years living in the UK. Most of this time was spent in a market town in Hertfordshire, again in mixed practice.

Having had his fill of rain, mud and cow poo, he returned home with Meredith to settle in Canberra.

In 2000 Richard completed a course of study in Small Animal Surgery, an area that had become of increasing interest to him. He became a Member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in 2001 by examination in this field.

Specific areas of interest to him are surgical oncology and reconstructive surgery.

Robert Sampson BVSc

Tahlia Royce BVSc

Tahlia has just recently joined our veterinarian team in the beginning of 2010. She decided to be a vet when she was young after hearing tales about her great-grandfather, who was the head vet at Taronga Zoo for many years. Having completed a bachelor of veterinary science at the University of Queensland, she decided to ditch the inner-city life and move to Canberra.

She is looking forward to getting to know our clientele and their pets. Tahlia is very interested in small animal medicine and surgery. After having had pets all of her life,  she finds it hard not to have any while she is renting. But luckily for her she still gets to enjoy everyone elses at work everyday.