Aitkenvale/Central

Dr Pooja Bahal

Veterinarian

Dr Pooja has been working as a small animal veterinarian for over 10 years. She enjoys all aspects of the job, especially internal medicine, critical care and behavioural medicine.

She has recently achieved Memberships in Veterinary Behaviour. She looks forward to treating your pets at Greencross Vets Aitkenvale.

Pooja is a pet parent to two dogs – Hamish and Nyx.

Tailah Moyle

Head Veterinary Nurse

Tailah started with Greencross Vets in 2010 as a School Based Trainee and completed my Certificate II in Animal Studies. She fell in love with nursing and went on to complete her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing.

Tailah loves all aspects of nursing, but she especially loves critical care and feline medicine. She is very passionate about providing the best level of care for our patients and helping them in every way she and her team can! Tailah is passionate about aspects of nursing, but she especially loves feline medicine and critical care.

At home she is a pet parent to a dog named Renny and two cats, Milko and Kevin

Connie Bretherton

Veterinary Nurse

Connie’s love for the animal industry started by completing a Certificate III in Animal Studies in 2019. She quickly found her passion working with lost pets in a rescue and shelter-based environment, focusing mainly on dog and cat husbandry, behaviour assessments and adoption.

Connie has an interest in owner education, animal welfare and working to spread awareness of responsible pet ownership throughout our Townsville community. She also loves to foster animals that need some extra love in her spare time.

Her journey Greencross Vets started in 2023, where she begun working and training as a Veterinary Nurse so that she can help animals in a whole different field!

Alex

Veterinary Nurse

Alex has been a part of our team since February 2022. Alex gained her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2018 and has been nursing for nine years. She has a passion for nursing critically ill patients back to health as well as caring for all patients in our hospital. In her free time, Alex enjoys taking her horses Bobby & Mr Ed on trail rides, and camping with her friends and family. At home she is a pet parent to a number of pets including Leo a Great Dane, Bear a German Shepherd, Little Boy a ginger cat and Mini a cat. Without a shadow of doubt Alex’s passion for animal care revolve around giving the best quality care to all pets in our health care facilities.

Ally

Veterinary Nurse

Ally started her veterinary nursing career in 2016 in Victoria and completed her Cert IV in VN in 2018. Ally has been a part of the Greencross Vets Aitkenvale family since February 2022. Ally is very passionate about providing the best care to the patients in our hospital. Outside of work, Ally loves swimming and camping! At home, she is a pet parent to Moose a Rottweiler, Chicken and Rosie the Chihuahuas.
Ally is passionate about preventative health and pathology.

Madison Fisher

Veterinary nurse

Madison was born and raised in Townsville and throughout her schooling life she frequently moved towns to Innisfail, Cairns, Mount Isa and back to Townsville. Her first veterinary experience was through school work-experience in 2013 with Townsville Vet Clinic for two weeks, it was from then on she knew that veterinary nursing was something she really wanted to do.

Upon completing high school she started studying animal health immediately at Open Colleges and completed her Certificate IV Veterinary Nursing qualification, with plans to continue her education particularly in the avian field. I gained work placement with James Cook University veterinary clinic where she gained experience caring for a variety of animals such as turtles, pelicans, snakes and bilbies.

Madison then joined the team at Greencross Vets Riverway, as a placement student in early 2019, which developed into employment. A team which she boasts is, ” A fantastic supportive team and look forward to further studies alongside the team”.

During my days off she can be found further educating herself, gardening, going fishing, if you have not noticed Madison is a I very outdoorsy person and likes to spend most of her time out in the sun.

Dr. Leah Denman

Associate Veterinarian

Leah was born and grew up in Somerset (South West), England before graduating from The Royal Dick Vet College, Edinburgh in 1997. After working in a rural practice for five years, Leah decided that a holiday was in order and spent 12 months working her way around the west coast of Australia. Having enjoyed this experience immensely, Leah decided to make the move permanent in 2003 and has been living in Townsville ever since. Leah enjoys all aspects of veterinary work but especially enjoys surgery, including stifle (knee) repairs, cutaneous reconstruction (skin grafting etc.) and eye repairs of all kinds.

Outside of work Leah enjoys spending time with her cat Cookie Monster. She also enjoy photography and white water kayaking, but her main love though is mountain biking. She loves the sport because it has taken her to many amazing places geographically and mentally, in the past she has completed at the competitions on local, state or national level as well as charity rides.

Julie Molino

Practice Manager

I grew up in a small town of Ayr and from a very young age I always wanted to work with animals. I started working in a Veterinary practice as a vet nurse when I left school and worked there for eight years full time and then five years part time.

I moved to Townsville with my husband and two children and started working for a business that specialised in Equine Products. It was seven years later that I decided that I wanted to come back to the where my passion is and that is the veterinary industry. I’m excited to be part of the team at Greencross Vets Aitkenvale and look forward to meeting you and your pets.