Forest Lake

Kelly Schoormans

Veterinary Nurse

Kelly has worked in the industry for over 20 years. Kelly adores all animals especially helping our wildlife.

When she isn’t at the clinic, she enjoys spending time outside in the yard, with her husband and two sons and her two beautiful dogs Clyde and Coal.

Melissa Ostrofski

Veterinary Nurse

Melissa has been in the nursing industry for 30 years she has a great knowledge for all creatures great and small. Melissa is our cat lady at the clinic, always smooching all the cats.

When Melissa isn’t working at the clinic you will find her hanging with her big goofy dog Nate, in the garden or her other passion is making and decorating cakes.

Bridget Kayali

Bridget started at the clinic back in 2023, since then she has finished her Certificate III in Animal Care Services and Has started Her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing and CPVN in Anesthesia. When not at the clinic she can be found caring for her animals at home like her dog (Scruff) her cats (Diesel and Remy) and her many Sheep.

Tylisha Tattersall-Beattie

Veterinary Nurse

Tylisha will be found within the clinic cuddling cats most of the time and getting excited for all the wildlife brought in. She has been with the Greencross team for a decade and started her journey as a student trainee and is currently a full veterinarian nurse. Tylisha works between Greencross vets Forest Lake and Greencross Forest Lake Village as a veterinarian nurse.
She will always have a creature that she is looking after (from birds to kittens ) and has a passion for helping whenever is needed. In her spare time Tylisha may be found with her menagerie of pets or tending to her orchids.

Dr Clare Waddell

Clare graduated from the University of Queensland in 1994. Clare has worked as a small animal vet at the Forest Lake Vet Surgery since 1997. She enjoys the long term relationships she has been privileged to develop with both clients and pets over this time. In her spare time she enjoys good food and wine along with camping and exploring Australia. She has a love of Shelties and her current girl Lori is the third she has had the pleasure of owning.

Dr Ian Gorrie

Dr Lori Crane

Lori graduated from James Cook University in Townsville in 2016. She has a passion for small animal general practice particularly enhancing her surgical and ultrasound skills. Lori has enjoyed developing relationships with clients and pets at Forest Lake over the past year and she looks forward to meeting more clients and pets in the years to come. In her spare time Lori enjoys spending time at the beach surfing, visiting her family in Townsville and patting Golden Retrievers. Unfortunately when Lori moved to Brisbane she was unable to take her elderly dog Louie with her, he now lives happily with Lori’s parents (Who feed him way too much). Her one wish is to own a Golden Retriever of her own one day.

Mary-ann Perrett

Mary-Ann has been in the industry for a number of years working in both small and large animal practices in the local area. She started working with Ian Gorrie at Forest Lake in 1996. Mary-ann has a Certificate 4 in Veterinary nursing and enjoys her role as Practice Manager / Nurse. In her spare time Mary-Ann enjoys spending time with energetic grandchildren, family and friends. But travel is never far from her mind.

Sandy Williams

Sandy began volunteering with the Forest Lake clinic in 2003, and has since completed her Certificate 2 in Veterinary Nursing and joined the Greencross team in a full time nursing position. She shares her home with 2 grumpy old cockatiel men, Charcoal & Mr Missy, and her Collie X, Maddison, unable to be left behind when spotted at the RSPCA.

Sharn Andrews

Sharn is a qualified Veterinary Nurse starting in 2009 as a little School based trainee.

She has a passion for all animals great and small and absolutely loves pigs.

When she is not in the clinic, she enjoys riding her motorbike, spending time with her dogs Bruce the handsome Great Dane cross and Dotty the adorable Bull Arab cross or her energetic little niece and nephew.